Example sentences of "[is] set by " in BNC.

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1 The standard charge is set by the local council , and can be zero , one half , equal to , one and a half or twice the cost of the personal community charge in the area .
2 The tone is set by the continual use of the pose with head held high , back slightly arched , arms in closed 4th or a stretch fully upwards in 5th sur les pointes for Kitri or on demi-pointes for Basil .
3 similarly , the quantity of records , cassettes and CDs to be manufactured is set by the company 's sales and marketing departments .
4 While the final policy on all major legal and financial matters is set by the company 's managing director or president , the advice offered by these specialist executives improves the efficiency , profitability and overall performance of the company .
5 The pervading atmosphere is one of the 1910s and 1920s , and the tone is set by the holiday houses hiding , like Undertown , among macracarpa trees , or braving it on the cliff with their faces looking to the Atlantic .
6 In most companies , top people 's pay is set by a group of non-executive directors .
7 It is set by two main things : the economic circumstances of the day , and the way in which firms are owned .
8 These are swivel-mounted to facilitate cornering , and a constant working depth is maintained by a hydraulic accumulator , whose pressure is set by a hydraulic handpump .
9 THE ‘ X ’ FACTOR Here are two examples of involuntary agenda emphasis , the situation where the agenda is set by events beyond the control of politicians .
10 Water temperature is set by a single control which adjusts the water flow .
11 The roots of lady 's bedstraw ( Galium verum ) , , produce an orange-red colour which is set by adding alum .
12 In order to prevent boredom and give motivation a theme is set by the conductor running the session .
13 A different kind of limitation is set by the third condition and it is this which we will look at now .
14 The UEL is set by the government each year .
15 The term ‘ the inner city ’ may tell us much more about the manner in which an agenda of social problems is set by the combined and unequal influences of a variety of interest groups than about the political economy of cities but its very reproduction in a set of discourses about ‘ the urban ’ guarantees it a status of its own .
16 The voltage gain of the amplifier is set by the ratio of resistor R1 to R1 at 11 times .
17 It will then remain like this until the circuit is Set by making S = 1 whereupon Q will become 1 and .
18 Assume the bistable is set by pressing the TRIGGER switch , S1 , Q becomes 1 and current passes to the base of the transistor , TR1 , via resistor R3 and operates buzzer , WD1 .
19 The upper limit on the amount of data is set by the database that has to handle it all , rather than by the car code system .
20 ‘ The ‘ bottom line ’ is that the ground-state orbit is set by a dynamic equilibrium in which collapse of the state is prevented by the presence of zero-point energy .
21 A curious problem is set by the discovery of a few jade axes in England recently .
22 The salary of Sarah Muldoon , forty-four , is set by Ipswich Borough Council after reference to the Salary Scales of the National Joint Council for Local Authorities ' Administrative , Professional , Technical and Clerical Services .
23 The work of the theologian is set by Schleiermacher in that context .
24 Renaissance , an annual symposium , is earnest , slightly religious and very southern ; you get the feeling that its tone is set by the kind of conversations about family and country that businessmen in Greenville , South Carolina would have on a Sunday after church or a round of golf .
25 However , even with no release , a lower limit to [ Glu ] o is set by the stoichiometry of the uptake carrier .
26 Long , graduated tails , in which all but the outermost feathers are elongated , generate the same lift as normal tails ( because maximum span is set by the outermost feathers and so does not change ) but substantially more drag , as elongation adds considerably to tail area .
27 The governor 's pay is set by the bank 's remuneration committee of external directors .
28 The NNDR is set by central government , collected by local authorities , and paid into a central pool .
29 The level of community charge is set by districts and boroughs after taking account of the precepts of other local authorities .
30 The Ware Standard is set by the Potato Marketing Board in order to guarantee the quality and size of potatoes offered for sale .
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