Example sentences of "[was/were] set by the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The limits of liberalisation were set by the faction within the party which held power . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | During the cold war , the size of America 's armed forces was set by the threat from the Warsaw Pact . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |