Example sentences of "[was/were] set by " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the first orders were placed the numbers of two-car units in the fleet were set by means of a number of calculations . |
| 2 | The manager 's commission does n't have to be the same on everything , and my initial rates with the straits were set by their lawyer at the beginning of our relationship . |
| 3 | Payments were set by the Warsaw Convention , which , executive director Geoffrey Lipman complains , is 60 years out of date , although the protection guidelines are still valid . |
| 4 | Although by mid-1941 peak powers of about 50 kW at 10 cm wavelength were obtainable , upper limits to power and efficiency were set by mode jumping . |
| 5 | The limits of liberalisation were set by the faction within the party which held power . |
| 6 | World records meanwhile were set by Jacob Van Hulsdonck 's ‘ Corbeille de fleurs et fruits ’ which sold for FFr7.5 million last December and two canvases by Anne Valleyer Coster , ‘ Vase de fleurs et fruits ’ and ‘ Fleurs dans un vase ’ , auctioned in July for FFr4 million . |
| 7 | The other islands followed and had slave majorities by the 1670s , and once they had done so the process was irreversible ; white men could not be persuaded to come to an area where wages were set by the cost of slave labour . |
| 8 | While the agencies maintained almost total control over the enforcement of standards , a control which could be preserved in the absence of publicity , this posed no problem : ‘ A lot of the standards were set by River Authorities ; and the works were n't capable of achieving [ them ] anyway , ’ a senior official said . |
| 9 | Given that the minimum levels of pupil competence were set by each school district in cognisance of local circumstances , a question was raised concerning whether students who failed to reach the agreed standards could recover damages for their failure to learn , if they were able to demonstrate teacher negligence . |
| 10 | For all the centuries of recorded time it has existed as an art in which style and fashion were set by the taste of an aristocracy ; bourgeois jewellery , peasant jewellery in less precious materials such as we now call costume jewellery , all imitated court fashion … |
| 11 | All 50 of Marot 's were set by Certon ( Paris , 1546 ) though only 13 of them have survived in a transcription for voice and lute by Guillaume Morlaye published in 1555 . |
| 12 | Some books were set by a single compositor , but |
| 13 | most were set by several … [ and ] although one compositor might set a whole book , he would not normally be working on that book alone but would intersperse work on other jobs when it was called for … |
| 14 | For all of them limits to possible action were set by economic , social , political or military necessities which were in the main the legacy of the past . |
| 15 | There were three types ( ‘ modes ’ ) , depending on whether the syllabus and/or examination were set by an examining board or a school . |
| 16 | In the " picotage " method , printing blocks were studded with tens of thousands of pins or studs which were set by young women who could , after completing their apprenticeship , earn the very high wage for women of 12 to 14s ( 60-70p ) a week . |
| 17 | The group is also concerned that if , as currently proposed , internationally-harmonized food standards were set by the Codex Alimentarius Commission [ see SAFE report , below ] , quality would decline . |
| 18 | The prices of the operations from fillings to complicated bridge work were set by independent experts so dentists would receive a fixed income set by the Doctors ' and Dentists Review Body . |
| 19 | The distinctive tone of the old Conservative party was set by the land : even those who did not belong to great landed families still believed in some romantic notion of the spiritual strength of England 's green and pleasant land . |
| 20 | The precedent was set by Nero at Rome in ad 64 . |
| 21 | The crucial boundary between what is ‘ Christian ’ and what is ‘ pagan ’ was set by the limits of official clerical tolerance . |
| 22 | The tone of the festivities was set by Göring 's public eulogy , stating : ‘ We … look back to an unbroken chain of glorious victories such as only one man could attain in a single year of his life , one who is not only a statesman and military commander , but at the same time also Leader and man of the people : our Führer … ’ |
| 23 | It has long been one of the curiosities of our political history that the previous all-time record was set by a party that actually lost the election , Clement Attlee 's Labour Party in 1951 . |
| 24 | The tone of the debate was set by Home Secretary William Whitelaw 's introductory statement in which he spoke of ( a ) the need to ‘ remove the scourge of criminal violence from our streets ’ , and ( b ) the urgency of developing ‘ policies designed to promote the mutual tolerance and understanding upon which the whole future of a free democratic society depends ’ ( Hansard , vol. 8 , 16 July 1981 : col. 1405 ) . |
| 25 | John Matcham 's name was set by the printer and the ‘ woollcomber ’ pulled the press . |
| 26 | The trend was set by a fifth-minute booking for Manuel Vivani after a late challenge on Martin Allen . |
| 27 | Because that level was set by the government , the licence fee was too often seen as a political issue and a source of political pressure . |
| 28 | During the cold war , the size of America 's armed forces was set by the threat from the Warsaw Pact . |
| 29 | The grimmer tone of government was set by the new head of the Third Section , P. A. Shuvalov : typical of the ministerial changes which took place was the replacement of A. V. Golovnin , the liberally minded Minister of Education , by the notoriously reactionary Dmitrii Tolstoy . |
| 30 | A record for a sword was set by lot 239 , a Fukuoka Ichimonji Tachi from the Kamakura period ( second half of the thirteenth century ) signed Ichi ; estimated at $200–300,000 , it sold for $380,000 ( £218,400 ) to a European private collector . |