Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] set of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I says I want to listen to it , you know , I said I 've heard it with C D going through it with about four sets of speakers , but I want to listen to it through eight sets of speakers with cassette , a cassette that I like to make sure , to my type , he says I guarantee you now you will like it , he says you will like he says , he says we do a ten day er return thing , he says you buy something , he says you bring it back within ten days undamaged we 'll give you money back if you do n't like the quality of the sound , for whatever reason we 'll give you your money back . |
| 2 | It might be said that if psychoanalysis had not posited the pleasure principle as the basis for the functioning of the unconscious , there would be no problem about this set of phenomena of ‘ compulsions to repeat ’ . |
| 3 | To do this , he should know something about the probability of sounds being symbolised in one way or another , and which is the most likely way for this set of sounds to be symbolised . |
| 4 | Turnout was 7% higher than in 1988 , and was in fact the highest for this set of authorities since local government reorganisation in 1973 . |
| 5 | The statistical test which measures the strength of the relationship between paired sets of observations of this kind is a correlation test , and a large number of these tests were carried out to investigate the relationship ( L. Milroy 1980 : 149–166 ; Fasold 1984 , chapter 4 ) . |
| 6 | The application of such a scheme to a set of documents should result in the ordering or arranging of that set of documents into groups or classes according to their subject content . |
| 7 | As a result , agents of the owner , who happen to be former principals of Sotheby 's , arranged for the procurement of another set of licenses from the Lebanon ’ . |
| 8 | The idea of some set of things including a cause , all of it somehow involved in the occurrence of the effect , is explicit or implicit in our ordinary thinking about the world . |
| 9 | We believe that if the wipers did start , even if certain changes had taken place in the situation , there would have occurred an instance of one or another member of this set of types of circumstances . |
| 10 | He points to the way in which the law has developed from a maze of individual sets of circumstances in which one or other of the prerogative writs would lie to a general principle under which courts will review decisions on the three grounds of illegality , irrationality and procedural impropriety : see per Lord Diplock in Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service [ 1985 ] A.C. 374 , 410 . |
| 11 | MPs last night returned to discussion on a group of amendments relating to European economic and monetary union , the 19th of 26 sets of amendments to be dealt with . |
| 12 | Results of three sets of experiments in the presence of calmodulin are shown with standard deviations marked by errors bars . |
| 13 | Mr Farquhar said : ‘ Over recent times many have spoken of one set of killers as a mirrored image of the other . |
| 14 | The dazzle effect of grids can be subdued by establishing a hierarchy of one set of parallels over another . |
| 15 | The only possible answer is that Anselm was not a bargainer chaffering the half-acceptance of one set of principles against the half-acceptance of another . |
| 16 | As Harris ( 1972 ) has written in his analysis of British conservatism , ‘ the aura of Conservatism must remain ambiguous , for intellectual clarity — that is , the clear expression of one set of interests before all others — is the enemy of cooperation between diverse groups , ( pp. 13–14 ) . |
| 17 | So the problem before us is this : that whereas the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity is both logically and epistemologically indispensable , this distinction can not be defined in terms of any set of criteria under which individuals are re-identified and distinguished from species . |
| 18 | This illustrates a very important property of any set of lines through a point on a surface which are tangential ( share the same direction ) at that point . |
| 19 | One can criticise the ordering of most sets of statements of attainment into levels . |
| 20 | Retired teacher Clifton Moss , 68 , smashed through three sets of doors after driving 700 miles . |
| 21 | The Scottish stand-off , who was among the Lions replacements , was forced to parade , bouquet in hand , from behind one set of posts to the red carpet on the half-wayline as chaperone to Mireille Mathieu , the French songstress who had just rendered all three verses of the Marseillaise ( with the chorus repeated each time ) . |
| 22 | My Lord the pleadings bundle runs to almost a hundred pages erm , this is due principally to the fact that there are something like four sets of particulars to statement of claim which have been served over the years er where the plaintiffs have set out their claim in er in detail . |
| 23 | They do not practise as a key worker straight away , but are attached to two or three units , to get used to working with different sets of residents with different problems . |
| 24 | Sims 's social reporting began in 1881 , with three sets of articles in the Sunday Dispatch — ‘ The Social Kaleidoscope ’ , ‘ The Three Brass Balls ’ , and ‘ The Theatre of Life ’ . |
| 25 | A cautious Mrs Gillian Shephard , the new Employment Secretary , said yesterday that too much should not be read into one set of figures before adding that they and a series of other favourable statistics may offer ‘ glimmers of hope ’ on the jobless front . |
| 26 | Above this local base , there were all-European social groups — nobles , knights , priests , lawyers , with changing sets of loyalties to their overlords and to different dynasties . |
| 27 | I came to London with one set of thoughts about universality and triteness . |
| 28 | I came to London with one set of thoughts about universality and triteness . |
| 29 | Near Teheran primroses come in many colours while here in Britain you very occasionally find one with double flowers , or with one set of petals inside another . |
| 30 | Nigel Osborne 's Sun of Venice , a work commissioned by the orchestra , used an unusual layout of instruments , with two sets of players beyond the main body in the style of Venetian composer Gabrieli . |