Example sentences of "set [noun pl] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It requires member states to set rules on mandatory bids , providing information to shareholders and treating them equally . |
| 2 | You will be faced here with a great temptation to set goals for fast weight loss that will prove difficult or impossible for you to achieve . |
| 3 | Despite student impressions to the contrary , exams are not designed to set traps for unwary students . |
| 4 | From then on the figures used in the White Paper to set targets for future spending were set in ‘ cash terms ’ . |
| 5 | The first would be used to set targets for improved river quality based on six " use " classes ; fisheries ecosystem , abstraction for drinking supply , abstracting for agricultural and industrial use , water sports , commercial farming of fish and shellfish , and special ecosystem ( i.e. specific areas for the purposes of nature conservation ) . |
| 6 | My favourite , no-check method of raising the dozen , or so , plants I need is to set seeds in biodegradable 3in ( 8cm ) Fyba Growpots . |
| 7 | In June 1989 , isolated in the European Community and under pressure from Cabinet ministers , she agreed to set conditions for British entry to the EMS . |
| 8 | According to Computerworld , it has said that at the next APPN Implementors ' Workshop , set for this week , it will seek input from other vendors on how to set priorities for future enhancements , and it has set the price for reverse engineering the code at $25,000 , a lower figure than many had predicted . |
| 9 | The subsequent research findings presented to Congress resulted in the Noise Control Act of 1972 ( later expanded into the Quiet Communities Act of 1978 ) which required the EPA to set standards of tolerable noise levels for all types of new equipment and machinery . |
| 10 | Together with the Reichsjugendgerichtsgesetz ( RJGG , Juvenile Court Act ) of 1923 it tended to replace punitive measures with pedagogical , child-oriented principles and to set standards for national youth departments in every part of the country ( Sachsse and Tennstedt , 1988 , p. 99 ) . |
| 11 | Poor neighbourhoods , argues Mr Wilson , have lost great numbers of working people who used to set examples to local children . |
| 12 | Budgets should set expenditure for principal areas of expense and may with advantage be so specific as to set amounts for individual chemical products and equipment . |
| 13 | And in the past , the , the nearest we 've got to that is taking them along to a fire station and telling them what sort of people we are , that has been proved in many cases to be counterproductive , because it 's actually an incentive if you wish to set fires from other districts than this . |
| 14 | It can bring mental and physical relaxation and can help you set goals for other races , rationally deciding what is possible . |
| 15 | The foregoing discussion has juxtaposed management and owner control , but there is of course a range of other influences that set limits to managerial autonomy . |
| 16 | If there are no distortions elsewhere in the economy , nationalized industries should set prices at social marginal cost . |
| 17 | For those just coming out onto the scene , it 's an established fact that many can come to terms with , but for those who have set patterns of sexual behaviour or who 've put themselves at risk in the past , it 's a great problem . |
| 18 | The four groups have joined forces to form the Ulster Karate Council , and have set dates for unofficial provincial championships in October . |
| 19 | Statutory developments as well have set limits to permissible directorial inactivity . |
| 20 | The NCGA , supported by the Government Finance Officers ' Association , was concerned with state and local government ; the Council of State Governments was concerned with state government ; the General Accounting Office of the Federal Government has set standards for federal departments and agencies . |
| 21 | Election ‘ 92 : Ashdown sets sights on Tory Achilles ’ heel |
| 22 | But in the latter year he also published Neue teutsche [ sic ] Gesang nach Art der welschen Madrigalien und Canzonetten in which the weight of German words naturally affects the music ; when he sets translations of Italian texts he has also composed , the difference is startling : |
| 23 | The General Accounting Office continues to cover the Federal Government ; the FASB sets standards for non-governmental , non-profit organizations ; and the GASB deals with state and local government and governmental non-profit organizations . |
| 24 | The authoritative parent affirms the child 's present qualities , but also sets standards for future conduct . |
| 25 | The Plan worked by setting targets for certain key sectors of the economy ( such as steel , electricity and cement ) rather than by close state direction , it tended to foster the return to industrial predominance of capitalist businessmen , and it relied on loans from abroad , particularly from America . |
| 26 | Thulani Davis describes policemen setting dogs on black women and children campaigning for the right to buy a cup of coffee at the local Woolworths , and educated black men being asked to abandon French courses at university . |
| 27 | The foreshore at low tide was indeterminate territory , setting problems of similar complexity to those posed by property rights in the seashore below high water mark . |
| 28 | This , for Nelson , is the soul of Berlioz 's art , the musical equivalent of jeweller setting gemstones in precious metal , not merely to hold them in place , but to show them off to their greatest advantage . |
| 29 | Setting prices on average equal to marginal cost can be done in more than one way , and some will be socially superior to others . |
| 30 | They are setting standards of good practice that we in the Save The Children Fund can then help to spread . |