Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] set [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | American firms issue paper privately mainly to skirt the burdensome disclosure rules set by the Securities and Exchange Commission . |
| 2 | Each borrower under a variable interest rate loan pays the lending bank(s) LIBOR plus the agreed spread at pre-determined reference dates set in the loan agreement . |
| 3 | Starting at page A two , paragraph five and nine indicate that there is presently a gap of so of some eleven point four million pounds , between the overall spending limits of three hundred and eighty-one point four million pounds , agreed by the Policy Committee last November , and the provisional cutting limits set by the Government of three hundred and seventy million pounds . |
| 4 | The TGAT Report ( DES 1987 ) on testing within the National Curriculum has suggested that parents be helped by having schools ' published test results set against the socio-economic circumstances of the pupils . |
| 5 | HCPROCESS requests HCMODULES to restore modules from offline for those charge codes set via the HCMAP parameter in the configuration file ( see Section 4 ) . |
| 6 | A survey by the environmental group Friends of the Earth has revealed that air quality in four British towns is breaching safety levels set by the EC . |
| 7 | The company , it seems , has no stomach to fight religious wars any longer and has meetings scheduled with Unix System Labs this week , and the Open Software Foundation next , at which some kind of rapprochment is likely — though not an SVR4 kernel development — with product announcements set for the end of the month . |
| 8 | Although difficult to meet , the consent limits set by the National Rivers Authority are consistent with ICI ; s plans to cut discharges by half by 1995 but call into question the viability of some Teesside plants . |
| 9 | Hughes argues that part of the reason why the former communist bloc is portrayed as highly polluted is the unrealistic safety standards set by the governments of the states themselves , which are far more stringent than those of the EC and USA . |
| 10 | Trams , however , were taken off the streets of London , in 1935 , and were replaced by trolley-buses — vehicles able to run on electric power by having two arms stretching above their roof to make contact with a pair of overhead cables , instead of the single arm of the tram and the metal rails set in the carriageway of the road along which their route was arranged . |
| 11 | Quiss looked up to see an overhead cable-car system of what looked like lengths of knotted string and bits of chain , running through little metal wheels set in the ceiling and carrying , on small hooks , cups and mugs and plates ( so that was why they had a hole at the edge ) , forks and spoons and knives of every description . |
| 12 | Here , too , metal reinforcements set in the concrete have rusted because the concrete contained too much calcium chloride . |
| 13 | The mills are also breaking pollution levels set by the local NRAs which WEN claims are inadequate in the first place . |
| 14 | Two rounds after the door is opened , the floor between the doors to 76 and 78 retracts and the passage becomes a pit , 4 yards deep , with jagged iron spikes set into the bottom . |
| 15 | From where she stood , working access to the most inner room had been via remote control arms and full-sized plastic window-suits set in the wall with their own flexi-corridors that stretched out behind the deeper the technician moved into the room . |
| 16 | two apple trees set in the lawn |
| 17 | His responsibility is to ensure that a particular package has achieved the quality standards set by the project which is using it . |
| 18 | His responsibility is to ensure that a particular package has achieved the quality standards set by the project which is using it . |
| 19 | Small hospitals incinerators do not have to comply with the latest emission standards set by the Department of Environment until 1996 . |
| 20 | Franco was expected to seek congressional approval for a two-step reform to simplify the tax system and to counter tax evasion , in order to meet performance targets set by the IMF in the January 1992 agreement [ see pp. 38719-20 ] for the disbursement of credits . |
| 21 | A council does not have the ability to help because of the spending limits set by the poll tax and the severe controls set by government . |
| 22 | Today North West industry meets all the Mercury quality standard and load discharge limits set by the regulatory authorities and the UK fulfils all the requirements of the EC mercury directive . |
| 23 | The ‘ cost pass-through ’ mechanism is designed to override the five yearly profit limits set by the director general , called the K-factor . |
| 24 | Joy Larkcom dallies with dill , passes on a trap tip , saves space by sowing salads and encourages runner beans to set in the kitchen garden this month |
| 25 | Wallmounted lights ( including lighting bricks set into the wall ) are a good choice for steps , while post-mounted lights , bollard-type lights or low-level lanterns are good for paths . |
| 26 | I wonder whether the right hon. Gentleman has read last week 's edition of The Economist , which investigated which European Community countries conformed with the convergence conditions set in the treaty . |
| 27 | In part two : cutting edge … the powerboat racers set for the world championships . |
| 28 | The next section traces the traditional arguments for and against health care markets to set against the peculiar hybrid that was introduced into the NHS . |
| 29 | The 1834 breed standards set by the Royal Jersey Agricultural Society and drawn up by distinguished island breeders showed parti-coloured engravings of the breed but made no reference to the colour of the coat as no importance was attached to such a superficial factor ; however , the light-coloured muzzle ring was specified , and a deep orange colour within the ears , while the skin was of a ‘ good ’ colour . |
| 30 | But a drop of rain is no problem for the famous Co Antrim golf links set among the sand dunes behind the strand . |