Example sentences of "set of rules " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , to entrap our pub tradition within a rigid set of rules and guidelines is at best to condemn it to becoming an anachronism , if not to extinguish it altogether . |
| 2 | Each assembly language module can be considered as an object with a specific set of rules for data input and output , thus enabling methodical testing techniques to be used . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Financial decisions — how much to borrow , how much to lend , at what price — made under one set of rules and incentives go wrong when the rules change . |
| 5 | You get what in reality is a new set of rules of law — rules which you can rely on as likely or certain to be applied uniformly in the future . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One is to follow a set of rules — an algorithm — such as ‘ go to B , then to D , and then to E ’ . |
| 8 | They contain a set of hypotheses about what particular features in the 2-D image might be , and a set of rules governing how those features can fit together to form solid objects . |
| 9 | In France , which has more than 200 registered organic producers ( over half the world 's total ) , there are 16 associations , each with a different set of rules . |
| 10 | The social worker finds the client applies one set of rules to herself and a very different set to other people . |
| 11 | This rent in the tribal fabric was torn wider by Dr Elijah White , Superintendent of Indian Affairs , who presented the Nez Perce with a set of rules to govern them , and demanded that they appoint a head chief . |
| 12 | There are officers with defined responsibilities , a committee and a set of rules . |
| 13 | As Richard Flathman disapprovingly remarked , ‘ There has been a remarkable coalescence of opinion around the proposition that authority and authority relations involve some species of ‘ surrender of judgment ’ on the part of those who accept submit or subscribe to the authority of persons or a set of rules and offices . |
| 14 | Then I started getting involved with the women and that took another three or four weeks because that was a different world with another set of rules . |
| 15 | In the female a different set of rules applies . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This would not be a problem if it was n't for another silly set of rules about what you must wear . |
| 18 | But do n't you feel uncomfortable , you as a member of the medical profession , do n't you feel uncomfortable if there exists in the wider world a set of rules which would condemn as one of the most heinous crimes that which you regard as the most humane of conduct ? |
| 19 | Over the four days of Easter in 1892 , 34 European chemists established a systematic set of rules for naming organic compounds , known as the Geneva rules . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The scope of quantifiers is made explicit using a set of rules that describe the relative strengths of English quantifier expressions . |
| 23 | In the US , there is no single set of rules to judge carcinogenicity . |
| 24 | The NAS panel would like to see a single set of rules for drawing scientific ‘ inferences ’ , or conclusions , from frequently confusing and inconclusive data . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The ban will last until a special committee under the minister for science and technology has drawn up a new set of rules to control the activities of foreign research workers . |
| 27 | The actions of both the Zionists and the Argentinians were , however instigated , straightforward take-overs of already occupied territory and no amount of alleged ‘ divine ’ involvement will alter the fact that , until all mankind adheres to a single set of rules on sovereignty , territory will belong only to those strong enough to hold it . |
| 28 | The co-existence of cyclists and drivers on the roads requires that both recognise a common set of rules . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In societies such as colonial Sri Lanka , in which criminal law was made up of a set of rules , under this definition it is not normally difficult to determine whether or not an action was criminal . |