Example sentences of "of a set " in BNC.
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| 1 | The repeated confirmation of the correlation between the physical characteristics of the stimulus and the characteristics of the neural activity it triggers , and between the characteristics of the stimulus and that of the subjective sensation , has encouraged the belief that our sensations are in some sense to be understood in terms of a set of stimulation levels ( spiking frequencies ) in the appropriate sensory pathways . |
| 2 | ‘ Ritual , ’ Eliot wrote in 1923 , ‘ consisting of a set of repeated movements , is essentially a dance . ’ |
| 3 | Sitting in front of a set of dim lights ? |
| 4 | This despite the increasingly apocalyptic talk about the inflation and unemployment that would arrive with the launch on new year 's day of a set of economic reforms : price liberalisation , the sale of small businesses and internal convertibility of the crown ( meaning that Czechoslovak firms licensed to conduct foreign trade can now buy as much foreign currency as they want at the newly unified exchange rate ) . |
| 5 | Another example would be a calculation which detected the existence of a set of similar markings over some region of the image . |
| 6 | There , Bruce Springsteen is much more than another pop star , he is the central custodian of a set of rock ‘ n ’ roll values . |
| 7 | If we may greatly oversimplify , it could be said that discussions of team organization in relation to client groups tend to be cast in the form of a set of claims made for the advantages of specialization . |
| 8 | Gian Galeazzo Visconti was responsible for the construction of a set of canals — here at the lowest point of the Lombardy Plain — and initiated the building of one of the wonders of Italy , the Duomo . |
| 9 | This is still a month or two short of publication but I have managed to get hold of a set of proofs which I am sending you under separate cover . |
| 10 | For our present purposes , however , the important feature of the model is that it develops the implications of the widely accepted notion that even the simplest stimulus will consist of a set ( probably a large number ) of elements and that only some of these will be sampled ( will activate their central representations ) on a given exposure ( cf. |
| 11 | The context consists of a set of elements some of which will be sampled along with elements of the target stimulus on each exposure . |
| 12 | A further possible source of latent inhibition emerges as soon as we accept that any stimulus can be construed as consisting of a set of elements . |
| 13 | Developing even further the gommage technique of his previous novels , this novel presents permutations and combinations of a set of elements subject to revision , repetition , and repetition with variation . |
| 14 | When the newly formed Grand Union Canal Company resumed work in 1810 , Thomas Telford ( q.v. ) suggested the construction of a set of locks instead of the tunnel . |
| 15 | But as the complex and delicate process unravelled , with hormones triggered off like the unlocking of a set of combination locks in a vast bank vault , it emerged how unlike a precious gem the ovum is . |
| 16 | Despite ritualistic genuflections from time to time towards the value of local democracy , it was assumed that the purpose of local government was more or less consensually agreed to be the local delivery of a set of services enshrined in centrally determined statutes . |
| 17 | Pro-format claim forms are completed at the end of a set period , eg one month . |
| 18 | These rules suggested a sequence of candidate referents , arising from the context or the current sentence , according to the contents of a set of focus registers representing the current discourse focus , potential foci , and other items . |
| 19 | Modular Object-Oriented Notation : Examination and comparison of a number of methods for a range of application areas ; Identification of a set of ‘ criteria ’ for the assessment of methods . |
| 20 | To issue a number of discs of a set separately and then issue those discs in a boxed set with other discs not separately issued is simply dishonest . |
| 21 | This is also only the second version of the Magnificat to be offered as part of a set ( Münchinger 's first-rate ‘ traditional ’ version on Decca is coupled to the Christmas Oratorio on three mid-priced CDs ; ) . |
| 22 | By an extraordinary coincidence the two greatest composerpianists of this century both chose the same Chopin theme , the prelude , Op. 28 No. 20 , as the basis of a set of variations , and each set was its composer 's Op. 22 . |
| 23 | Mendelssohn joins hands with Schumann , Chopin and Brahms as the éminences grises behind the music of Ernst Lubeck ( 1829–76 ) in four of a set of Twelve Preludes , as plainly derivative as they are easily enjoyed . |
| 24 | Where the boundaries of the outside world are located at any instant will depend upon the social actor 's possession and manipulation of a set of competences of varied quality . |
| 25 | Following hard upon this came the issue of a set of stamps to commemorate the anniversary of Poland 's rebirth in November 1918 . |
| 26 | One of the first ideas towards understanding number is accordingly that of a set of objects ( cars or people , etc . ) . |
| 27 | Sometimes children will themselves become part of a set — children wearing red , sandals , hair ribbon , etc. ; children sitting on the mat , floor , grass , etc . |
| 28 | DESIGNED for disco 's and parties , not to mention Red-Nose Day , the Tie-Pulser consists of a set of 20 l.e.d.s fastened to the front of a tie . |
| 29 | Part of a set of 20 in all , this month 's cards represent the first of four instalments , covering popular tropical fish . |
| 30 | Within this chapter our concern is with those , both Marxist and non-Marxist , who have taken as given the particular direction in which technology has developed , and with those who , while accepting that it is possible and desirable to exercise some social control over technology , have taken the view that there is no fundamental conflict at the work-place and that the system of organisation there can be optimised in the light of a set of objectives to which they assume all would be able to agree . |