Example sentences of "a set of rules [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In common with several top players , Lendl is less than enamoured of the delays in promulgating a set of rules for the Tour which meet the desires of the competitors . |
| 2 | This power , ostensibly the exercise of discretion by an individual constable , has in practice hardened into a set of rules for the management of industrial disputes . |
| 3 | The need for an ‘ official name ’ for indexes and dictionaries contrasts with the desire of others for a set of rules for different names leaving the choice between them to the user . |
| 4 | Claude , the seventeenth-century French painter who spent much of his life in Italy , formulated a set of rules for landscape painting that became de rigueur . |
| 5 | This might include a set of rules for relating the surface form of an utterance to its underlying meaning , and certain grammatical categories such as sentence subject and object of the verb . |
| 6 | If the advantages of decentralization of decision making are to be preserved , firms must be able to operate within a set of rules for competition that enable them to identify what strategies are likely to attract scrutiny , and what strategies they can pursue without hindrance . |
| 7 | Just as organizations develop a set of rules for documents that are delivered through the postal service they will develop rules for documents delivered electronically ’ ( Truller 1993 ) . |
| 8 | Meanwhile if anyone can send me a set of rules for fantasy games they are involved in or know about , I will take them into consideration . |
| 9 | In discussing how animals find their way about , I have drawn a distinction between cases ( for example , jumping spiders making detours ) in which what is stored in the brain is a set of rules to be followed — sometimes called an ‘ algorithm ’ — and others ( for example , rats finding a submerged platform ) in which the brain stores a representation of the world , or , if you prefer , in which the animal has some knowledge of what is the case . |
| 10 | It has been argued persuasively that passages from the Bible which had been taken as prohibiting gay sex were either mistranslated or taken out of context ; that , in any case , the Bible could not be read as a set of rules to be unthinkingly obeyed ; that love and justice in sexual relationships mattered more than gender ; and that homophobia itself was sinful . |
| 11 | This approach argues that the best way in which to use syntactic knowledge is to formalise the grammar and encode it as a set of rules to which input must conform if it is to be considered acceptable . |
| 12 | For some students , however , labs were not a game , but a set of rules to be adhered to . |
| 13 | And , if you want to press the architectural simile a little , the many variations on a helical theme ( with their emphasis on a set of rules of proportion ) represent a style that is unmistakably classical , with much of the same appeal . |
| 14 | These included arrangements for the collection of a crusading tax known as the Saladin Tithe , details of the financial privileges to be enjoyed by the crusaders and a set of rules of conduct which they were supposed to observe . |
| 15 | Even if one 's occupation is freely chosen , it usually carries with it a set of rules about what should be done , when , how and to what standards . |