Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] set [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike in certain other European countries , British labour law sets no maximum duration to a temporary employment relationship , whereby all persons employed for longer than a certain period of time automatically have permanent status . |
| 2 | using IBM terminology , the SETL macro can be employed to indicate a starting point in the file and the ESETL macro to set a finishing point . |
| 3 | Theories of normative income redistribution set a desirable standard or target , whereas the more positive theories are an attempt to predict something about the nature of redistribution in the empirical world which may or may not be consistent with one or more or any of the views of desirability . |
| 4 | No longer did record companies set a contractual agenda which the young , naive performer was obliged to follow . |
| 5 | UK drinks tax policy sets a bad example to our export markets . |
| 6 | Zambia 's first development plan set the ambitious goal of providing primary school places for all children by 1970 . |
| 7 | The EC Drinking Water Directive set a Maximum Admissible Concentration ( MAC ) of 50 ug/litre of lead in tapwater . |
| 8 | The contract rate sets the maximum interest rate payable on an exposure . |
| 9 | Suppose a comparison instruction sets a two-bit condition code , depending on a comparison of the contents of accumulator A with the contents of a store location B , as shown in Figure 3.13(a) . |
| 10 | Therefore , we have decided that it would not be appropriate to introduce separate charges for sewerage and the provisions in the Bill for water and sewerage charges in Scotland will essentially maintain the existing system whereby regional and island councils set the appropriate levels . |
| 11 | This reported in 1960 ( the Herbert Report ) , and in 1963 the London Government Act set a broad boundary to the London area and gave shared responsibility for its local services to the Greater London Council ( GLC ) , and to thirty-two London boroughs and the City of London . |
| 12 | Crossing the Judith Mountains , Poker Joe set a hard pace , and the elderly and wounded silently drifted behind their people . |
| 13 | The otter , sliding up a river like a sleek cat and whistling to its mate under the moon , is truly king of the waters , and the presence of otters on a river system sets the final seal of well-being on its wildlife . |
| 14 | Yesterday the it was n't yesterday , it was earlier on this week , the County Councillors set a new budget for Oxfordshire and they made ten million pounds worth of cuts . |
| 15 | In the following year he had succeeded in attracting so much public attention that the government was obliged to hurry through parliament a new Merchant Shipping Act setting a fixed load line for ships — the " Plimsoll Line " . |
| 16 | In the same year Italy set a new higher rate of customs duties just before a scheduled meeting of GATT was due to discuss tariff reductions . |
| 17 | This normativist approach sets the principal agenda for , and method of , inquiry . |
| 18 | This information is used by the switching angle selector to set the correct D1 as the excitation trigger . |
| 19 | In particular , co-operative R&D ventures set the potential gains from internalizing technological spillovers and positive pecuniary externalities against the potential costs of a reduction in competition . |
| 20 | Rice production improved markedly during 1989 , with government economists at the December plenum forecasting rice harvests exceeding the 20,000,000-tonne production target set the previous year ( and compared with 17,600,000 tonnes harvested in 1987 ) . |