Example sentences of "by set " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process was assisted in the North by the self-exclusion of Britain from internal Ulster affairs by setting up the Stormont parliament which survived from 1922 to 1972 . |
| 2 | This was followed by setting up of a voluntary multi-denominational school at secondary level , Lagan College , in 1981 . |
| 3 | By setting the student problems during the final flights before going solo , the instructor can test his ability to think logically and to deal with situations as they arise . |
| 4 | A surge in the crowd behind him jolted him forwards and he saved himself , and the woman , by setting his feet wide and holding onto her shoulders . |
| 5 | Massine interprets these chords by setting six dancers about the stage and on each chord the six men either singly or together , and in turn , rise into a tour en l ’ air finishing in a pose . |
| 6 | The ascii code allows for these by setting aside the first 32 values , from 00h to 1Fh , as ‘ control characters ’ . |
| 7 | Douglas , the leading US maker of pan washers for the bakery trade , provides a profitable US base and the chance to undercut the market by setting up more cost effective production facilities based on Lincat 's UK operations . |
| 8 | Another company , Gold Peak Industries ( Holdings ) , which makes car audio equipment , is also trying to hedge future risks by setting up new factories elsewhere . |
| 9 | Unit has already built up valuable experience in engineering by setting up its own production line for the pallets business with in-house expertise . |
| 10 | Security will be tight : Peru 's Maoist guerrillas , Sendero Luminoso , expressed their disapproval of the whole business by setting off a number of bombs in Ica last week and murdering the wife of the rector of the local university . |
| 11 | Another feature of Party activity in Roslavl' and Smolensk reflected in microcosm top-level efforts in Moscow to divide and rule by setting the Living Church and other sects against the official Orthodox Church . |
| 12 | Notes towards the Definition of Culture supplements Arnold 's definition not by abandoning it , but by setting it beside a wider , basically anthropological definition of culture . |
| 13 | His somewhat thankless task was to attempt to introduce private-sector techniques into the Civil Service by setting up the Property Services Agency . |
| 14 | The government responded to the unacceptable strength of the mass picket by setting up a Court of Enquiry ( under Lord Justice Scarman ) while at the same time condemning the ‘ violence ’ of the pickets . |
| 15 | It took a Labour Government less inhibited than the Tories with their informal links to the amateur élite to bring sport within the ambit of the welfare state by setting up the Sports Council . |
| 16 | By setting up mother and child health services . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , Balcon did take practical measures of his own to develop more technically sophisticated films , by setting up productions in German studios , and working with European technicians whose superiority to their British counterparts was recognized . |
| 18 | However , he urged the Government to consider taking the ambulance staff 's pay permanently outside the political arena by setting up a pay review body for ambulance staff Mr Clarke replied the NHS could not end up in a situation whereby group after group took industrial action and were rewarded by arbitration bodies . |
| 19 | It manages tasks by setting deadlines for their completion , instead of using interrupts simply to start them going . |
| 20 | The bill would give the service a ‘ new lease of life ’ and put it in good shape to provide an even better service by setting up a new system of financial management and creating new incentives to efficiency . |
| 21 | If memory serves , Adam Smith once proposed that the independence of the Scottish judiciary might be guaranteed by setting aside a tract of the Highlands for their exclusive use . |
| 22 | The finance ministry has long acted to prevent dividends slipping any lower by setting a rule barring firms from issuing new equity if they pass or reduce their pay-outs . |
| 23 | They leave the state of nature ‘ by setting up a judge on earth with authority to determine all the controversies and redress the injuries that may happen to any member of the commonwealth ’ . |
| 24 | A farmer with 100ha ( 250 acres ) of arable land , 75ha ( 185 acres ) growing cereals yielding 7t/ha ( 2.8/acre ) ( paying £6.71/t levy ) and achieving an average gross margin of £600/ha ( £240/acre ) would lose £167 , or £11/ha ( £4.40/acre ) by setting aside 15ha ( 37 acres ) of their poorest land . |
| 25 | So when the USA moved the goalposts by setting still-lower targets for particulates and NOx , new avenues had to be explored . |
| 26 | By setting realistic goals and tackling your weight control programme in easy steps you will learn to control your eating behaviour in a way that pleases and satisfies you . |
| 27 | The line can be charged by setting one form of energy against another : one end against the other , one length against another . |
| 28 | He was on hand to take the pass after Kilford had broken through and ended a fine performance by setting up wing Byrom for a try . |
| 29 | Some , no doubt , would have preferred John Cox to have ‘ made it relevant to today ’ by setting his production in contemporary Croatia , perhaps , with Kalashnikovs in place of crossbows . |
| 30 | In part this is achieved by setting up ‘ behavioural experiments ’ to test out the silent assumptions and in part by ‘ Socratic dialogue ’ with the client as to the validity , consistency and utility of these assumptions . |