Example sentences of "of sets of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end he played a couple of sets of variations as an encore . |
| 2 | Selznick 's study of the Tennessee Valley Authority and Kaufman 's study of the Forest Ranger in the United States both stress the importance of the transmission of sets of values from dominant members of the organisation to the remainder of the organisation as an important feature of the functioning of the organisation — it establishes control within the organisation and presents sponsors of the organisation in Washington with a clear image of the organisation 's ‘ mission ’ . |
| 3 | In TRACE , the links between levels of description are explicit , hard-wired connections , and the links across time are represented by the simultaneous activity of sets of nodes in different time slices . |
| 4 | Bate and Henry Kater [ q.v. ] worked on these models in 1825–6 , and subsequently Bate supplied hundreds of sets of standards to government and municipal offices throughout the United Kingdom and overseas . |
| 5 | If one is inclined , as one may well be , to doubt the validity of sets of distinctions of the kind I 've just made , they are at least based on a separation which Proust placed at the centre of his own critical theory . |
| 6 | On the other hand , the coastline 's area is zero , so neither a one-dimensional nor a two-dimensional picture is appropriate , and in fact the way in which the length increases with resolution suggests a dimension D of about 1.2 The mathematics of sets of points with fractional dimensionality was developed in the early years of this century , but associated geometric objects were considered as ‘ pathological ’ and not corresponding to anything in Nature , Mandelbrot 's massive and single-minded achievement has been to convert this abstract formalism into a flourishing branch of applied mathematics , in three ways . |