Example sentences of "a set of [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a demonstration of orderliness must also involve appeal to an existing social structure which serves to ‘ institutionalize ’ action — that is , to impose a set of constraints on behaviour and , at the same time , to endow action with meaning . |
| 2 | The result is a set of viewpoints on contemporary man down the long corridor of his evolutionary past . |
| 3 | It would not be sufficient to store a set of instructions on how to act . |
| 4 | This took the form of a pack with a set of leaflets on various aspects of transport provision . |
| 5 | With videodisc it is possible to select the frame precisely and speedily so that a set of stills on the screen could very easily be used . |
| 6 | There 's a set of gamblers on a Friday night so we er fucking try to use some more it was n't |
| 7 | We recognize a sign as a set of letters on a page , or an intelligible series of sounds , or an iconic device , and in the same perception we grasp what it stands for : signifier and signified together make up the sign . |
| 8 | The evidence for this group is a set of letters on papyri ( A. Cowley ( 1923 ) Aramaic Papyri , Oxford ) . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's a set of prints on it . |
| 10 | Josie rummaged in her oversized handbag , finally bringing out a set of keys on a ring . |
| 11 | She deposited a set of keys on the desk and straightened up , grinning . |
| 12 | Wilson , himself a soccer fan , was the same , as Crossman discovered when he went to see him in April 1970 about a set of lectures on Cabinet government he was preparing for Harvard : |
| 13 | And it was six and eight pence for a set of shoes on a |
| 14 | The Forestry Commission also are most helpful and have produced a set of pamphlets on their Woodland Grant Scheme , which can be obtained from the Forestry Commission , Private Woodlands Branch , 231 Costorphine Road , Edinburgh EH12 7AT . |
| 15 | In effect the international relations literature of the 1960s was a set of variations on the Morgenthau paradigm . |
| 16 | One of the " movements " in the suite which makes up the first act of Wozzeck is , it may be recalled , a passacaglia , that is , a set of variations on a ground bass . |
| 17 | Of course , a set of policies on soil conservation was not simply determined by a few major economic and political interests of colonial powers alone . |
| 18 | The book is accompanied by a ‘ sound sheet ’ , that is , a set of illustrations on a playable plastic disc . |
| 19 | In March 1989 a set of directives on economic relations between the USSR and its constituent republics was published , which called for the transfer of up to 36 per cent of industrial production to local control ( the existing figure was only 5 per cent ) , with much higher levels — up to 72 per cent — in Georgia and the Baltic republics . |
| 20 | at a fortune ; a set of knives on black cloth , shining , |
| 21 | Surely in a way I 'm answering my own point , you would have to go beyond just having a set of words on paper which says we have a major exceptions policy . |
| 22 | If you present someone with a set of stripes on a TV screen and make them move at right angles to their long axis , that is the direction in which the person will see them move . |
| 23 | Declamation , not coloratura , distinguishes the three upper parts in ‘ O Primavera ’ , the second of a set of pieces on Guarini 's Pastor fido in his Eleventh Book . |
| 24 | My feeling is that we probably need to create a set of interlocutors on a regional basis who can have the right kind of influence on EC regional and social policies . ’ |
| 25 | The procedures thus impose a set of translations on this model to re-establish the specified state of association . |