Example sentences of "set of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A set of conditions of the given kind , one which is followed by the effect if the usual background obtains , is called by some philosophers a sufficient condition for the effect .
2 The frequency and extent of the roll varies from day to day and from one set of conditions to another .
3 The second is to lay down the ground-rules for generalizing from one set of conditions to another , for example , from the laboratory to the real world .
4 Combined with the economics of manufacture and purchasing , these factors create a complex set of conditions to be considered in making the decision ( Bergen , 1975 ) .
5 Combined with the economics of manufacture and purchasing , these factors create a complex set of conditions to be considered in making the decision ( Bergen , 1975 ) .
6 The final set of conditions for successful skill learning are derived from the learning hierarchy .
7 It is accepted that some conception of a set of conditions for an effect is used , but it is denied that this is the conception of a causal circumstance .
8 However , the Secretary of State then came forward , in August , with a second , revised regulation , which dropped the exclusion of supplementary benefit and national assistance and sought instead to lay down a more restrictive set of conditions for back payments .
9 We began with the idea that a causal circumstance consists in a set of conditions including a cause or causes-more precisely a set of individual properties-each being ( 1 , 1a ) required or alternatively required for the effect .
10 In short , distance from the equator , winds , lay-out and height of continents , soil chemistry , past history , animals , plants , human history , and time and chance combine and interact to produce the particular set of conditions in any one place .
11 There is always a significant lag between the establishment of a particular set of conditions in the weathering environment and the adjustment of the mineralogical and physical properties of the regolith to these conditions .
12 Meirion was not alone in seeing Laura and Bernard as ‘ a spare set of parents to us all . ’
13 To Caroline home is a room for her possessions , abandoned by her Mum and Dad as a baby , she spent her life moving from one set of parents to another .
14 ‘ There 's a set of prints on it .
15 I 've been told the pra price of the jacket is the amount of the price of a set of wheels for the Lamborghini !
16 In 1988 Edinburgh acquired the complete set of watercolours for Edward Moxon 's edition of The Poetical works of Thomas Campbell , the only set of his illustrations now remaining together .
17 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 . ’
18 Its purpose is not to prove the efficacy of any particular method but to use a set of principles as bearings for the development of different techniques .
19 All the problems that we have been wrestling with over recent years in attempting to formulate a set of principles for communicative language teaching suddenly vanish as if at the waving of a wand .
20 Also agreed was a resolution recommending members to study measures to combat money laundering , and a set of principles for the supervision of financial conglomerates .
21 When you think how CCW and the WTB have collaborated to agree a set of Principles for Tourism in National Parks , we should try to remain hopeful that a similar joint approach can eventually be agreed for golf courses .
22 And , to the extent that it comprises a certain body of knowledge and a certain set of principles for systematic enquiry , any theory of literature is likely to establish the study of literature as a science .
23 But in addition to the political ideal of the rule of law Hayek also recognizes the need for a set of principles of institutional design to ensure that the power of the state could not be exercised in such a way as to compromise individual liberty .
24 A set of principles of ‘ functional ’ town planning was established , enshrined in a document drawn up at the fourth congress held aboard a liner cruising between Marseilles and Athens : hence the Athens Charter , 1933 .
25 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 .
26 The diversification of the sciences and the theoretical changes within them make it extremely difficult to locate a unique set of principles by which harmony could be guaranteed .
27 But in practice , as we have seen , courts have enjoyed a considerable degree of autonomy thanks to the failure of successive governments over the years to develop an overall sentencing policy of their own , or even to articulate a coherent set of principles from which a jurisprudence of sentencing might emerge .
28 It is a great merit in Mrs Taylor that she has been content to be guided by her moral taste , which is very fine and true , without trying to form a set of principles upon it .
29 the properties of non-metals er so we ought to go through er non-metals and make the corresponding set of notes to the the reactions of metals .
30 Rather there should be only one set of notes for each subject regardless of source .
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