Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] set " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oger is a small hamlet , its few houses set well back from the D10 towards the Forêt d'Oger , and barely noticeable from the road . |
| 2 | Some plans set a limit of £50,000 worth of cover a year , others allow for the minimum NHS waiting list time to pass before cover is triggered . |
| 3 | Thinking they were doing the right thing , some schools set out to understand and respond to the particular problems faced by children of West Indian origin — only to discover that their parents , dissatisfied with ‘ low expectations ’ and ‘ lack of discipline ’ , were setting up their own alternative , strict , traditional schools that their children were being sent to on Saturdays . |
| 4 | However , some schools set their own versions of the tests . |
| 5 | However , it would be wrong to have a system which meant that some countries set aside land so that other countries could produce more . |
| 6 | Some parents set about punishing undesirable behaviour without paying attention to the needs and ‘ messages ’ that lie behind it . |
| 7 | The message is even more explicit in The Four Just Men ( 1939 ) , a tale of derring-do in which some chaps set out to warn the nation of a demonic plan to destroy the British Empire , leaving world domination in one man 's hands . |
| 8 | Some retailers set aside an area in the storeroom or warehouse as a ‘ goods received area ’ where goods are priced soon after delivery from the supplier . |
| 9 | some writers set up publishing companies for tax purposes . |
| 10 | However self-critical you may be — and some executives set themselves standards of achievement which are unrealistically high , rather than too low — there is usually much to be gained from learning the views of others about your capabilities . |
| 11 | Some managements set great store by cuttings but a tally of the column inches or volume of press cuttings does not really tell you all that much . |
| 12 | The portrait of Boyd Fortin was the first in Avedon 's project and in some ways set the tone and style of what was to come , linking the Western portraits to previous preoccupations . |
| 13 | Some councils set up new industry or employment committees , staffed by their own departments . |
| 14 | Because such houses set the standard , those who write upon architecture in the eighteenth century and Regency invariably regard houses of moderate size for more limited means as a scaling down of the houses of the great . |
| 15 | Performing their job to the best of their ability , such managers set an example for others to follow . |
| 16 | Such increases set a bad example and I hope that managers in the private and public sectors will remember that the setting of pay for those who are high on the ladder affects the willingness of people further down the ladder to respond sensibly . |
| 17 | Based on the most serious accident which it was realistically supposed could occur , these plans set the limit of expected evacuation of people living round the Hinkley Point site at just over two miles . |
| 18 | These rules set out the order in which your relatives will inherit your property if you die without leaving a will . |
| 19 | These reprisals set out specifically and successfully to drive a wedge of animosity between the Palestinians and their increasingly resentful hosts in south Lebanon , the Shiite community . |
| 20 | In July 1918 these universities set up a Joint Standing Committee of Convocations , intended to be non-political and non-partisan , the main purpose being the selection , on approved educational grounds , of candidates for the parliamentary constituency . |
| 21 | How these banks set about merging will make or break them |
| 22 | These principles set out the desired aims of : |
| 23 | These codes set limits to meaning — ‘ objective possibilities ’ — while at the same time they leave open a space within which the operation of other elements in the music , its context and reception , can pull them into a more specific place in the network of social meaning , in line with the work of the articulating principles involved . |
| 24 | On the other hand , if theorists adopt a particular conception , then they should look at the way that contemporary social representations have developed their particular qualities through argument and how , in turn , these representations set the agenda for further argumentation . |
| 25 | In alliance with the king , these bishops set out to impose both their theological preferences and their particular brand of ceremonialism on the parish clergy and the laity ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 26 | Some of these issues set off fewer alarm bells today and perhaps for most of us they are of less social concern . |
| 27 | Both of these boys set out to follow their dreams and because of this conviction did , in fact , realize their goals and become successful solicitors . |
| 28 | These morons set up meaningless polls , people like me tell them that they 're meaningless , and then , when they turn out to be meaningless , they cry ‘ Amazing triumph for the Tories ! |
| 29 | These ceremonies set the Church 's seal on the election , symbolized that the king was God ‘ s choice as well as man 's , and that he was set apart for the work . |
| 30 | With premiums on many cars set to double AGAIN this year it 's more important than ever to find a way to cut costs on cover . |