Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] a set of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surface of the swimming pool was quite still , except for a set of small rings around a drowning fly . |
| 2 | Mrs Thatcher interprets the Madrid formula more as a pretext for not joining the EMS than as a set of three conditions for joining it . |
| 3 | The moral commands of the Bible are presented more as main guiding principles and ideals than as a set of meticulously detailed regulations for daily living . |
| 4 | It explains why judges must conceive the body of law they administer as a whole rather than as a set of discrete decisions that they are free to make or amend one by one , with nothing but a strategic interest in the rest . |
| 5 | Thus , if in a set of decimals to be compared , the longest one really is the smallest , it will attract such pupils when they are asked to pick out the smallest as well as those who select it for the correct reason . |
| 6 | But typical Mansell courage and skill took him past his arch rival … and with Patrasse in the pits it was left to Mansell to claim victory … only just though on a set of well worn and blistered tyres . |