Example sentences of "set [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the slightly unsatisfactory nature of the data set used by Lucas , and although the tests he applied were hardly rigorous , his paper was influential in that it was one of the first to show that certain of the predictions made by the rational expectations hypothesis were not entirely inconsistent with the data . |
| 2 | Two boys and a woman , who are n't even dhāmis , leap to their feet , possessed , their bodies spinning-tops set turning by the strength of the gods ' will to dance . |
| 3 | With the number of cars on our roads set to double by the year twenty-twenty-five , : our environment reporter Harriet Ryley considers whether we really NEED more roads . |
| 4 | The econometric work will be undertaken on a data set constructed by CURDS at the University of Newcastle which details the adoption dates of nine technologies in approximately 1500 firms in the metalworking and engineering industry . |
| 5 | consumption is set to fall by 14% |
| 6 | excise tax take is set to fall by 2% |
| 7 | In September the Council warned that wheat stocks held by the five biggest exporters — Argentina , Australia , Canada , the European Commodities and the USA , were set to fall by the end of the 1989-90 season to levels not seen since the food crisis of the mid-1970's . |
| 8 | Twenty companies moved this year , 49 are set to go by 1993 and another 23 are considering moving — and not just to the suburbs . |
| 9 | That fund is set to increase by a further £1 million next year , and I certainly expect motor projects to figure significantly within that increased expenditure . |
| 10 | Overall spending for environmental programmes was set to increase by $2,000 million , most of which would be spent on cleaning up radioactive and toxic waste at federal weapons facilities , preserving the country 's dwindling areas of wetland and researching into the effects of global warming . |
| 11 | Gross domestic product ( GDP ) was set to increase by an average annual rate of 7 per cent in 1991-2000 . |
| 12 | Debt servicing expenses were set to increase by 10.8 per cent , amounting to 22.5 per cent of general account outlays . |
| 13 | The government was also committed to reducing radically the budget deficit by implementing cuts in social spending ; defence expenditure , however , is set to increase by almost 11.6 per cent [ see p. 38289 ] . |
| 14 | Defence spending was set to increase by nearly 6 per cent to Rs76,000 million . |
| 15 | At the present rate , emissions from aircraft are set to increase by 50 per cent by 2020 . |
| 16 | ‘ Share prices simply look cheap , ’ he said , adding that fund managers were convinced that the economy as a whole is set to grow by 11/2 p.c. this year , with corporate earnings rising by around 5 p.c . |
| 17 | But , we fought back , showing true fighting spirit , and looked as though we were set to win by a couple of points before the Americans rallied , salvaged some pride and squared the match . |
| 18 | Bills for an average household are set to double by the end of the decade and rocket to £345 by the year 2005 , says a report from the water watchdog Oftel . |
| 19 | This indicates how the proponents of ‘ law and order ’ have picked up and run with the ball that was set rolling by the Justice Model , with very different effects from those that the Justice Model 's original advocates desired or expected . |
| 20 | THE strife-torn Timex plant in Dundee is set to close by Christmas , union officials said last night after talks with its American management . |
| 21 | MAJOR rebuilding work on a town leisure centre is set to begin by the end of next month . |
| 22 | The number of reservists will be increased from 28,400 to 40,000 , while defence spending in 1990 is set to rise by 2.8 per cent . |
| 23 | THE old age pension is set to rise by a meagre £1.98 , yet average wages are to increase by £4.50 in line with the cost of living . |
| 24 | The prisons budget of £775 million in 1988 was set to rise by 42 per cent to £1,140 million in 1989 , to cover the cost of expanding the prison building programme , emergency measures on overcrowding and the costs of keeping prisoners in police cells . |
| 25 | Total state expenditure was set to rise by 10 per cent to D4,080 million ( US$4,970 million ) of which D1,805 million ( US$2,200 million ) was for current spending ( a 14.2 per cent rise on 1990 ) . |
| 26 | Development spending was set to rise by 9.2 per cent to D1,477 million ( US$1,800 million ) . |
| 27 | Current expenditure was set to rise by only 1.7 per cent to QR11,700 million ; details of additional capital expenditure were not released . |
| 28 | In the draft budget for 1992 which was approved by the Cabinet on Sept. 4 spending on defence was set to rise by 6 per cent , bringing it to 14,800 million shekels ( US$4,770 million ) . |
| 29 | Military spending was set to rise by 3.78 per cent , the lowest increase for 32 years . |
| 30 | Energy consumption in the member states of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD — which groups most of the industrialized countries ) is set to rise by 30 per cent over the period 1990-2010 , according to a report by the International Energy Agency . |