Example sentences of "set [prep] [noun pl] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another view of some civil law courts is that neither set of conditions can apply to the contract ( since the parties manifestly wanted the contract to exist , acted as if it did , but could not agree as to which of their sets of standard conditions should apply to it ) . |
| 2 | Have you any reason to believe that either set of parents might make demands on either partner which would make ‘ leaving ’ difficult ? |
| 3 | The labels parents attach to particular behaviour patterns often reflect this : thus one set of parents may see a grossly inactive baby as ‘ placid ’ and happily accept him as that , while another set might see the same child as irritatingly ‘ lazy ’ and accordingly try to force him to behave differently . |
| 4 | I do not think that any incoming party with any set of policies could turn the economy around over the next six months . |
| 5 | There is , however , a more fundamental reason why an attempt to perceive a structure within a given set of phenomena may fail ; it may be that there actually is no structure there to be perceived in the first place . |
| 6 | A mechanism must thus be provided whereby one set of pairs can modify or suddenly change into another . |
| 7 | Indeed , it seems that a hearer who interpreted this utterance as conveying a specific proposition or set of propositions would miss out on much of its intended relevance . |
| 8 | If one set of instruments can substitute for another , policy is in any case badly served by a legal framework which focuses on form rather than effect , as the UK restrictive practice legislation does . |
| 9 | You may find that reference to more than one set of tables will help you . |
| 10 | This complex set of rules could produce the relation shown as Figure 3.28 . |
| 11 | He must be careful that the new rules he lays down fit well enough with rules established by others or likely to be established in the future that the total set of rules will work together and make the situation better rather than pulling in opposite directions and making it worse . |
| 12 | The complete set of drawings will show how much the larva grows . |
| 13 | A different set of keys will produce a different set of synonyms , and of unused record spaces . |
| 14 | Such efforts may eliminate some common inaccuracies , but no set of criteria can avoid distortion caused by the quantification of unlike incidents . |
| 15 | An objective duty to balance potentially conflicting interests would present the courts with a near-impossible task and hence it is impracticable to impose one : not only would the court need to assess the likely impact on each group of a contested business policy , both in the short and long term , but also it would have to evaluate the policy in accordance with a theory which stipulated when one set of interests should prevail over the others . |
| 16 | Now trick films were the sort of first visual magic that the cinema could produce and erm these , these films you would see for example a motor car disintegrate and then reassemble itself , this kind of thing , people 's clothes change , drop off and a new set of garments would come on , all this sort of thing , people 's faces would change , their environment would change , their chairs would collapse under them and rebuild themselves , this sort of thing which could be done relatively easily once you knew how to do it . |
| 17 | There is a logical gap between the idea that there is a leading edge in scientific activity , and the view that a set of journals can model that leading edge . |
| 18 | However , one set of mappings may predominate over others , thus producing a bias in the availability or accessibility of plural or singular referents . |
| 19 | A YOUNGER set of judges would provide a better image to the public : so says Mr Harold Hewitt , who last weekend sat for the last time , retiring for the second time at the age of 75 . |
| 20 | No piece of paper or set of documents can guarantee quality of service ; you provide that every day by your dedication , enthusiasm , skill , knowledge and positive attitude . |
| 21 | The application of such a scheme to a set of documents should result in the ordering or arranging of that set of documents into groups or classes according to their subject content . |
| 22 | A different set of questions would have avoided the false start on the wrong track . |
| 23 | This set of questions will find out how much you know about sets and set language . |
| 24 | But , though statistics are objective icons for the disinterested observer — or powerfully distorting tools for the polemicist — once in a while a particular set of figures will leap from the page of some dust-dry tome to offer up an image more illuminating than all of a dozen reports like those in the bibliography relating to this chapter . |
| 25 | In villages where there were four arable fields a typical set of crops would have been one field of wheat , one of barley , one of beans with one other field , known as the fallow , given over to grazing . |
| 26 | Initial , would have to be interpreted as initial , plus post-initial , , with the result that the post-initial set of consonants would have to contain , , , and also , — consonants which are rather different from the other four and which could only combine with , . |
| 27 | That is to say , the crests of one set of waves may coincide with the troughs of the other set . |
| 28 | There has been some debate on how the form of the set of types may affect the type of outcomes sustainable as a sequential equilibrium in a reputation game , see for example Vickers ( 1986 ) . |
| 29 | social choice over a set of alternatives must depend on the orderings of the individuals only over these alternatives and not on ‘ irrelevant alternatives ’ ; |
| 30 | Since visual field asymmetry and dichotic ear differences have both been claimed as indices of the same phenomenon — cerebral lateralisation of language — these two measures derived from the same set of subjects ought to correlate with each other . |