Example sentences of "[be] set by the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standards that have been set by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders . |
| 2 | Inside it looked a bit old-fashioned , as if the style had been set by the Festival of Britain and never changed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | I would personally like to see more erm sort of grading of erm more , more higher standards being set by the sort of head offices of people who own things like chains of motorway service areas , not catering for the lowest common denominator , but aiming to really have an absolutely top quality service , cleanliness , everything , in all parts of their business . |
| 6 | A curious problem is set by the discovery of a few jade axes in England recently . |
| 7 | Is a prisoner serving a life sentence entitled to make representations before his tariff is set by the Secretary of State ? 4 . |
| 8 | However , even with no release , a lower limit to [ Glu ] o is set by the stoichiometry of the uptake carrier . |
| 9 | The voltage gain of the amplifier is set by the ratio of resistor R1 to R1 at 11 times . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The last day of November 1845 was set by the Board of Trade as the day on which all new railway plans had to be lodged if they were to stand any hope of a parliamentary hearing . |
| 12 | Large areas of Catalonia became dependent on a single specialized export — wine and cheap brandy were sent in such quantities Europe that the world price of brandy was set by the market of Reus . |