Example sentences of "the [noun pl] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the responsibility of fundholding general practices to decide priorities for research in the context of the population 's needs and the contracts set with each provider . |
| 2 | The attitudes set in late Victorian times can be traced in British industry right through into our period . |
| 3 | The exchanges in the Joint Commission again ended in deadlock and this marked the termination of the discussions set in train at the Moscow conference . |
| 4 | In this way the patterns set in the boom left their imprint firmly on the years of mass unemployment which followed . |
| 5 | With characteristic ingenuity , the Germans set to boring two mile-long tunnels — appropriately called ‘ Gallwitz ’ and ‘ Crown Prince ’ — in order to bring troops right up to the northern base of the Mort Homme in safety . |
| 6 | THE SMALL £5 in the corner ( as in pay no more than ) is a good introduction to Sofa Head 's second album , and inside it shrewdly builds on the foundations set by last year 's ‘ Pre Marital Yodelling ’ . |
| 7 | THE SMALL £5 in the corner ( as in pay no more than ) is a good introduction to Sofa Head 's second album , and inside it shrewdly builds on the foundations set by last year 's ‘ Pre Marital Yodelling ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The rules set for life insurance firms , and proposed for general insurers , strongly favour insurers investing in low-risk assets , such as bonds , rather than higher-risk ones like equities . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In contradiction to Mr Linfield 's opinion as expressed in his letter , I believe the policies set in place resulted in procedures that all librarians now , working in multi-cultural communities , would consider quite reasonable and normal . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And when Cardiff looked at the upside-down dead eyes of that head as they reflected in the torchlight , when he saw the teeth set in a clenched and hideous grin … he recognised the face immediately . |
| 15 | St Wolfgang is the most famous of the resorts set on the shores of Lake Wolfgang . |
| 16 | Malaysia 's Industrial Master plan also represents such thinking , though many question whether the goals set for the twelve priority sectors of development strategy can be achieved . |
| 17 | The Bar Association at its annual conference on June 30 strongly urged the adoption of a multiparty system , declaring that the APC had " failed to achieve any of the goals set for itself " . |
| 18 | At the workshop the organisers had managed to unite informed educational opinion throughout Nigeria and to establish a productive working climate in which panels in six areas of the primary school curriculum : cultural and creative art , languages , mathematics , physical and health education , science and social studies met and in the light of the goals set at the 1969 Curriculum Conference expanded and refined objectives in these areas and produced a series of guidelines which have since been used throughout Nigeria at university and state level as a basis for detailed curriculum planning . |
| 19 | As a company and as individuals , we are still a very long way from the goals set at the outset of TOP in February 1992 and much remains to be done . |
| 20 | In this they went beyond the goals set by Zambia or Zimbabwe . |
| 21 | Having discussed these introductory points , we can proceed to examine some of the ways in which the structure of organisations contributes to the achievement of the goals set by management . |
| 22 | Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Vitaly Churkin read a statement to reporters on Feb. 24 that the Soviet government regretted that " a real chance to solve the conflict peacefully and achieve the goals set by UN Security Council resolutions has been missed " . |
| 23 | Middle management will ensure that the goals set by top management are being met . |
| 24 | A new Sustainable Development Commission , subject to approval by the UN General Assembly , would monitor progress towards the goals set in Rio . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The weakest test of conformity with the no-arbitrage condition uses the bounds set by the transactions costs of arbitrage . |
| 28 | Leave the shapes to set at room temperature . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It has thus politicised the problem of violence beyond the parameters set by the law and order debate . |