Example sentences of "from set " in BNC.
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| 1 | This list and its two supplements , far from setting limits , offers suggestions . ’ |
| 2 | Their women , far from being grateful , turned on them , snarling , in late night conversations telling them to shut up ; far from setting them free to work for the Revolution , their women demanded that they take emotional responsibility and also clean the loos . |
| 3 | Some leading MEPs believe an alliance with reform-minded MPs must be struck if leaders like Mrs Thatcher are to be prevented from setting up an economic and monetary union , which is essentially uncontrolled by any democratically-elected body . |
| 4 | But Mr Zogby of the Arab-American Institute believes that the war in the Gulf , far from setting the cause back , may be a moment of opportunity : ‘ The United States ’ , he says , ‘ now knows that it will need to build bridges to the Middle East . |
| 5 | Those who were influenced by this belief refrained from setting out on a journey or from starting a major task on that day of the week . |
| 6 | Chapter Three gives a detailed account of the action project from setting it up , operating it , and finally to its termination . |
| 7 | cylindrical pierced metal candle shades which , placed in a shallow dish of water , steadied the flame and prevented the candle from setting light to what it was standing on . |
| 8 | The Commission regarded this difference of treatment as deterring companies registered in other member states from setting up agencies and branches , since they were placed at a disadvantage vis-à-vis French companies . |
| 9 | All are such small things , but they can be surprisingly effective in stopping the rot of jealousy from setting in and spoiling family life , and can make her much more contented and secure . |
| 10 | He concludes , therefore , that for the twin reasons of the capitalist 's desire to force high output from individual labourers and to prevent labourers from setting up in competition , a pattern of work organisation emerged in the early cotton industry that was characterised by intensive working in factories , with individuals performing fragmented tasks . |
| 11 | The regulatory spotlight is unlikely to deter financial institutions from setting up in offshore centres if they perceive an advantage in doing so . |
| 12 | This can mean anything from setting up new local profit centres to revamping centrally provided services such as information technology and communications systems , or reforming ways to monitor and reward performance . |
| 13 | Naturally enough , war raged fiercely in Spain ; in 1704 the English captured Gibraltar and held on to it , initially as a base for their communications in Spain ; a good deal of the naval activity of the war took place around Spanish waters and the English managed to stop the Bourbon forces from setting up any effective siege of Gibraltar . |
| 14 | Up until now there is no law preventing anyone from setting up a cable TV network , and the cable operator pays nothing to Star or any other channel . |
| 15 | Alison Assiter extends the notion of autonomy into the private realm where the tradition cautiously refrains from setting foot , and suggests that how we treat and are treated by other people in private has a direct bearing on our autonomy in the public sphere . |
| 16 | But this did not prevent the Dominicans from setting out that war could be justified as a means of restoring order in situations of political or social disharmony , for instance between territories ( here we see the beginnings of the idea of the territorial unit and the defence of its justifiable rights ) or between sovereign rulers and their vassals ( if the vassal chose to rebel against his lord and thus fell into a state of disobedience ) . |
| 17 | It declared that ‘ no tricks and manoeuvres of the corrupt Korean reactionaries who are the bosses of S. Korea will distract the Korean people from setting up a single democratic Korea ’ . |
| 18 | Ways of assessing specific criteria apart from setting tests have been described in current development projects . |
| 19 | Background material for the Development Zone release outlined earlier might include the full text of the minister 's speech , the government leaflet setting out details of the Development Zone scheme , a complete list the benefits to be gained by businesses from setting in Tadchester , and a list of addresses of relevant officials within the local council , the New Towns Commission and Tadchester Industrial Development Centre 0 might be able to help industrialists to take the decision to move . |
| 20 | They have not shrunk from setting aside gifts made to persons in a position to exercise undue influence over the donors , although there has been no proof of the actual exercise of such influence ; and the courts have done this on the avowed ground of the necessity of going this length in order to protect persons from the exercise of such influence under circumstances which render proof of it impossible . |
| 21 | Touche Ross reckoned that the extra costs resulting from setting up 51 councils would be £58 million but the figure could be closer to £184 million . |
| 22 | He rejected the argument that the defendants had done something more by refraining from setting up certain answers to the claim permitted by the Dubai law ; as a matter of policy it was never their intention to do so and ‘ It is no consideration to refrain from a course of action which it was never intended to pursue ; see Cook v. Wright ( 1861 ) 1 B. & ss. 559 , 589 , ( above , p. 214 ) . ’ |
| 23 | The chief inspector had just come , case or no case , from setting a close watch on those spots , in expectation — in foreboding , rather — that the flood would bring some unusual freight aground very shortly . |
| 24 | ( 4 ) Before simulating the effects of benefit changes on the expected durations for selected group of individuals , we first report the results from setting the discount rate equal to infinity . |
| 25 | In the province of Saskatchewan , the government recently passed an act to repeal a section of the labour code which prohibited unionized companies from setting up non-unionized spin-off companies . |
| 26 | I am in favour of that , but that is different from setting up international agencies whose legislation and ideas may have devastating effects on industries in western countries while leaving eastern countries to carry on processes over which the rest of us have no control . |
| 27 | The conference agreed to adopt a set of compromise proposals which would involve a commitment by each donor country to increase its ODA to LDCs , but it refrained from setting an overall target in excess of the 0.15 per cent agreed upon in 1981 . |
| 28 | Many of them fled to neighbouring parishes where the manorial structure was far weaker and poor immigrants were not prevented from setting up home . |
| 29 | The following might be regarded as excessive restrictions : ( 1 ) an attempt to prevent a qualified solicitor from setting up a specialist practice in a field in which his former firm has never before undertaken work and has no plans to start accepting instructions ; ( 2 ) an attempt to prevent an outgoing partner from accepting instructions from any person or firm ( whether or not a client or former client of his former firm ) within a prescribed area ; ( 3 ) a general area restraint where the outgoing partner 's former firm has its offices in a location where competition is already intense . |
| 30 | The time for serving a hearsay notice set by Ord 38 , r21 is 21 days from setting down . |