Example sentences of "a set of [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example we can use it to show that it is possible to pivot from any primal feasible tableau ( T1 ) corresponding to a set of constraints to any other primal feasible tableau ( T2 ) for these constraints , maintaining primal feasibility . |
| 2 | Thus , if in a set of decimals to be compared , the longest one really is the smallest , it will attract such pupils when they are asked to pick out the smallest as well as those who select it for the correct reason . |
| 3 | Each parent passes on a set of chromosomes to the hybrid offspring : but the two sets do not match , and so can not undergo the ‘ reduction division ’ necessary to produce another generation of gametes . |
| 4 | Indeed , taking things a step further , you can break down an overall favourable attitude to a brand into a set of attitudes to different aspects of the brand . |
| 5 | Attitude research was the property of no school in this respect and constituted a set of problems to which all might contribute . |
| 6 | Patricia Meyer Spacks sees a parallel between the ‘ exclusionary alliance ’ which exists in gossip , and the relation between a reader and narrator in fiction : ‘ … what reader and narrator share is a set of responses to the private doings of richly imagined individuals . ’ |
| 7 | Despite all the apparent sophistication of defence analysis , it may thus have produced a set of answers to the wrong question . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For some students , however , labs were not a game , but a set of rules to be adhered to . |
| 12 | After all , we would like to distinguish between adverbials which indicate a connection between one sentence and the next and those adverbials used to link a set of sentences to another set . |
| 13 | Methodological principles need to be discussed at the rather abstract level at which they were presented in the preceding chapters ; otherwise it is not always easy to assess the applicability of a set of methods to a new research context . |
| 14 | reorder is a tool to reorder a set of clones to a given order of probes . |
| 15 | Within this chapter our concern is with those , both Marxist and non-Marxist , who have taken as given the particular direction in which technology has developed , and with those who , while accepting that it is possible and desirable to exercise some social control over technology , have taken the view that there is no fundamental conflict at the work-place and that the system of organisation there can be optimised in the light of a set of objectives to which they assume all would be able to agree . |
| 16 | Within corpora , compounds are tagged with a single tag for the whole compound allowing a set of compounds to be easily extracted . |
| 17 | The procedure assigns the weighting between the top and bottom halves , saves a set of measures to be used for reference and initialises the fields norm , max , min , subjMeas of the sub-records top , btm . |
| 18 | The High Performance Fortran ( HPF ) compiler includes a set of extensions to the Fortran 90 language , allowing programmers to create machine-independent software optimised for a range of parallel architectures . |
| 19 | Windows for Pens is basically a set of extensions to Windows 3.1 which does two things . |
| 20 | The three main pen operating systems are Windows for Pens ( a set of extensions to Windows ) , PenDOS ( extensions to DOS ) and PenPoint ( the only ‘ proper ’ operating system ; a big , 32-bit multi-tasking affair ) . |
| 21 | The Secretary of State has already proposed a set of tests to be used along with the national core curriculum . |
| 22 | Learned behaviour in any particular society includes those ideas , techniques and habits which are passed on by one generation to another — in a sense , a social heritage — and which are virtually a set of solutions to problems that , in the course of time , others have met and solved before . |
| 23 | Learning : Given a set of solutions to past problems , find information which will help the problem solver in future . |
| 24 | Alternatively there may be no marks as such but simply a set of grades to which the quality of pupils ' work may be assigned directly . |
| 25 | Still less is it a set of con-tricks to which deluded individuals and households continually fall prey . |
| 26 | Doodle , a funny little insect thing , is determined to rescue the fair maiden and sets out with only a set of pencils to his name . |