Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] a set of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditionally , those with 25 service have been presented with inscribed watches , but for the first time the 40 year award has been introduced with a choice of either a canteen of cutlery or a set of crystal glasses and decanter as a gift from the company . |
| 2 | We made sure that er on each occasion er we reached a figure or a set of figures that would be mutually acceptable to ask the colleague or colleagues and , and then it was registered in the minutes as a , so we could refer back to er any cases er that were similar and that then made life easier for the shop stewards er who may have had a recurrence of the same problem . |
| 3 | It is important to bear in mind that a set of standard terms is a legal document which sets out the terms of a contract . |
| 4 | Moreover the drafter should bear in mind that a set of standard terms , unlike a will or conveyance , is intended to be used by the client and its trading partners without legal advice . |
| 5 | With a sinking knowledge of the inevitable , Manville accepted the fact that one spare wheel and a set of spanners would not cope with three slashed tires and a shattered windshield . |
| 6 | He 's got your itinerary and a set of photographs of the site in the Bahamas I need . |
| 7 | The usual price for a pair of Equibrand hoof branding irons is £98.40 which includes VAT , carriage and a set of stable and gate warning signs . |
| 8 | The use of this structured form of communication has enabled Figure 11.2 to be reproduced by transmitting seven lines , each containing a mnemonic and a set of alphanumeric symbols in an order indicated by the mnemonic . |
| 9 | From Hobbes , whose Leviathan he describes as ‘ the greatest … masterpiece of political philosophy written in the English language ’ , he inherits the authoritarian aspects of his theory , the outlines of his distinction between state and society , and the rejection of the view that civil association must derive its authority from the inherent justice of some ‘ higher ’ law or a set of fundamental values . |
| 10 | It is not obvious to the very young child that a set of objects has the same number of units however those units are arranged ( provided , of , that none are removed or added ) . |
| 11 | and amp and a set of speakers it 's about three hundred and odd quid and it 's er Samsung and it 's supposed to be one |
| 12 | Since linguistic change and rapid dialect mixing appear to be a general characteristic of urban dialects ( Labov 1972b : 300 ) , it seems reasonable to assume that insight can be gained into the processes of their formation if a set of data from a city is compared with a set from a surrounding area . |
| 13 | It yielded nothing but a small ball of marzipan and a set of perfect tyre-tracks in the dust . |
| 14 | There are officers with defined responsibilities , a committee and a set of rules . |
| 15 | you know , and erm , our Kim , er , she , she goes to bloody extreme then , she 's picked a wardrobe , one wardrobe and a set of drawers , should of been a thousand pound and that bloke at Aston where she got her bed from , which she paid twelve hundred pound just for a bedhead |
| 16 | so , she thinks like they were , they were on show these just for a wardrobe and a set of drawers for a thousand quid , he let her have them for six hundred , so she 's been and paid a deposit on them |
| 17 | She learnt a look and a posture and a set of adjectives which passed for being hip in the Village . |
| 18 | These include a kaleidoscope , an aquarium full of crazy fish , a hopping frog scene and a set of wild 256-colour palette-animated fractals ! |
| 19 | Attempts have been made , presumably on the basis of this intuition , to formulate a taxonomy and a set of criteria for identifying ‘ genuine ’ variables ( see Coveney 1986 ; Romaine 1984b ) . |
| 20 | ‘ A wallet , sir , a Parker fountain pen and a set of keys . |
| 21 | Thus it could be alleged that we are all vulnerable to this power , individuals having little control over their lives , in the shadow of a powerful and looming state which offers them protection and a set of civil/political rights , the main being to elect representatives in return for their acquiescence . |
| 22 | Gordon 's mother had an umbrella stand and a set of Chinese temple bells in her hall . |
| 23 | OnGO Office is the core element behind Uniplex 's client-server architecture , providing enterprise-wide network and mail communications , X500 routings and gateways , TCP/IP and open systems interconnect support and a set of object libraries . |
| 24 | OnGO Office is the core element behind Uniplex 's client/server architecture , providing enterprise-wide network and mail communications , X.500 routings and gateways , TCP/IP and open systems interconnect support and a set of object libraries . |
| 25 | She 'd read Shakespeare , Pete had n't ; not unless you counted Julius Caesar at school , which he 'd managed to get through with a lot of patience and a set of Coles ' Notes . |
| 26 | This configuration may then be compiled and linked using a command file or a set of command files that have also been read out as part of the structure . |
| 27 | This option enables you to endorse a Software Status Report ( SSR ) for a single package or a set of packages . |
| 28 | It is often easier to assess a continuous probability distribution than a set of specific values . |
| 29 | It is often easier to assess a continuous probability distribution than a set of specific values . |
| 30 | All that now follows , in this book , is presented in this sense : as an inquiry and a set of working hypotheses , rather than a body of demonstrated and verified conclusions . |