Example sentences of "sets [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OPTi Inc , Santa Clara manufacturer of core logic chip sets for personal computers , got its initial public offering of 2.5m shares , 2m of them new , away at $10 a share and plans to use the $9.5m or so net proceeds to finance accounts receivable and inventory . |
| 2 | Two weeks later comes the West End début of an actress who has been brightening the fringe and television sets for several years now : 26-year old Serena Gordon . |
| 3 | Once a curriculum development centre or similar body is established , it naturally sets about developing curricula , usually with some fervour . |
| 4 | ‘ So I compromised by redesigning the base as a set of flat plates with circular holes cut in them through which sets of moulded hemispheres could be pushed . |
| 5 | On the IBM 360 range restrictions are placed on which sets of consecutive bytes may be considered to form a word-oriented unit ; thus the left-hand byte of a half-word must be at an even address , that of a full-word must be at an address divisible by four , and so on . |
| 6 | Gabriel Fauré 's chamber music constitutes one of the glories of French music , and virtually every note of it appears on two ‘ Rouge et Noire ’ sets in superb performances by Jean-Hilippe Collard , in company with artists such as Augustin Dumay , Frédéric Lodéon , and the Parrenin Quartet . |
| 7 | Shepherd , more than any other contributor to this section , draws attention to the extent to which current efforts in the geographic information management field are constrained by the highly fragmented nature of both data suppliers and users both in sectoral and spatial terms , the great diversity of data sets in varying formats and the difficulties presented by institutional factors such as copyright provision , data ownership and the control of access to data . |
| 8 | What we may loosely term the formal/informal continuum is simply expressed in different code sets in different societies : by language choice in bilingual societies , by dialect switching in diglossic situations , and by style shift in monolingual societies . |
| 9 | Individuals use their radio and television sets in different ways and for different purposes , and expect different things of them . |
| 10 | Keeping up with the latest hair trends as ever , Wella has just introduced Hair Sets in three variants . |
| 11 | They include 35mm slide packs on subjects such as the home front and women at war , photographs of wartime London and the Battle of Britain , and postcard sets on such topics as fashion in the 1940s , wartime posters and World War I cartoons . |