Example sentences of "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3 Payments were set by the Warsaw Convention , which , executive director Geoffrey Lipman complains , is 60 years out of date , although the protection guidelines are still valid .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 .
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