Example sentences of "the [noun pl] set by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The romantic-lyrical ballad style of twentieth-century Tin Pan Alley clings stubbornly to its role in the representation of gender relations within the norms set by the stereotype of the bourgeois couple , despite attempts made from time to time to move it into new patterns with new meanings . |
| 2 | Under the rules set by the Constitutional Court ( whose members are chosen by parliament ) , the president had to get half the electorate ( 53.5m people ) to approve an early parliamentary election . |
| 3 | Attempts to solve the problem become more and more radical and the rules set by the paradigm for the solution of problems become progressively more loosened . |
| 4 | Managers can then exercise as much authority and carry as much responsibility as possible within the constraints of the policies set by the organisation and the commitments they have made to their own superior executive . |
| 5 | As will be discussed below , the treatment of detainees suspected of security offences is still open to serious questioning , but the operations of the penal system itself continue within the bounds set by the Statute of Rights . |
| 6 | We could see it as providing an insurance fund against loss caused by ( usually ) unintentional failure to keep within the bounds set by the principles of public law . |
| 7 | The weakest test of conformity with the no-arbitrage condition uses the bounds set by the transactions costs of arbitrage . |
| 8 | The absence of alternatives to becoming highly dependent on private companies may leave little choice but to accept the parameters set by the ideology of the firm as a family . |
| 9 | It has thus politicised the problem of violence beyond the parameters set by the law and order debate . |
| 10 | Those who argue for participatory democracy believe active citizenship can not be established within the limitations set by the existing liberal-democratic framework . |
| 11 | One of the preconditions set by the African National Congress ( ANC ) for negotiation was the lifting of the state of emergency in its entirety . |
| 12 | At the beginning of the annual costing exercises there is usually a significant gap between the targets set by the Treasury and the genuine requirements of the Services , which no amount of discounting can bridge . |
| 13 | The targets set by the School Management Task Force are realistic as part of large-scale management , and the detailed approach of the SDPP is likely to be more immediately valuable to schools . |
| 14 | But one of the conditions set by the Japanese government was that its people should take part only if there were a ceasefire between the warring parties . |
| 15 | The principles set by the schools on both sides of the Atlantic are effectively the same ; they are vocational training centres which make use of speed-learning techniques in a high-energy learning environment . |
| 16 | The city claims the levels set by the pueblo for one pollutant " arsenic " are 1,000 times lower than occur naturally . |
| 17 | What cruel irony it will be if my own uncompromising and innovatory integrity should lead me into the mantraps set by the sort of people who scarcely know one end of a pen from another . |
| 18 | In Buxtehude for example , an attempt is made to calm the car across a broad area using a battery of devices , providing the driver with an unambiguous message that he or she is welcome , but on the terms set by the residents . |
| 19 | In an effort to meet the terms set by the World Bank in June 1989 for the granting of a US$150,000,000 structural adjustment loan , the government agreed to a number of measures aimed at restructuring the banking , state and agricultural sectors . |
| 20 | She is then able to cover the same ground , using the objectives set by the ward . |
| 21 | Biologists try to interpret the structures they see as performing some function , subject to the constraints set by the materials of which they are made , and the conditions under which they must operate . |
| 22 | The term ‘ strategy ’ , as a way of conceptualising management actions , refers to long-term policies pursued by management and it implies , according to one common approach , that management has a choice between alternative possibilities with respect to the best ways of attaining its labour relations objectives — within the constraints set by the external environment . |
| 23 | Their calculations of reaction rates in the Sun 's interior imply that there must be at least 10 20 times as many monopoles in the Sun as is possible according to the limits set by the non-detection of monopoles here on Earth . |
| 24 | Was a workable modus vivendi then possible between the rulers of England and France , even within the limits set by the peace of Paris ? |
| 25 | Many operatives also welcome the independence and freedom , within the limits set by the builder , to choose working hours and in certain circumstances to work unlimited overtime . |
| 26 | Since the structure of molecules and their reactions with each other underlie all of chemistry and biology , quantum mechanics allows us in principle to predict nearly everything we see around us , within the limits set by the uncertainty principle . |
| 27 | Science seems to have uncovered a set of laws that , within the limits set by the uncertainty principle , tell us how the universe will develop with time , if we know its state at any one time . |
| 28 | The net effect is to produce a loss if the share price does not move beyond the limits set by the high and low exercise prices but a small and limited profit if it does . |
| 29 | If fewer than ten suitable students are identified , there is a provision for substitute funding ; I think you suggested half the fees for places that are taken up , and that would certainly fit within the limits set by the Executive . |
| 30 | Against the timescales set by the government , that contracts for all services be in place by April 1991 , it proved a stern test of general management . |