Example sentences of "[noun sg] be set by the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The trend for suburban dwelling was set by the wealthy , and planned suburbs appeared in order to meet their needs in the 1860s .
2 The standard charge is set by the local council , and can be zero , one half , equal to , one and a half or twice the cost of the personal community charge in the area .
3 Long , graduated tails , in which all but the outermost feathers are elongated , generate the same lift as normal tails ( because maximum span is set by the outermost feathers and so does not change ) but substantially more drag , as elongation adds considerably to tail area .
4 The lower age limit was set by the National Institute for Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke and the Alzheimer 's Disease and Related Disorders Association ( NINCDS-ADRDA ) and the upper age set by convention for presenile disease .
5 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 .
6 The tone is set by the continual use of the pose with head held high , back slightly arched , arms in closed 4th or a stretch fully upwards in 5th sur les pointes for Kitri or on demi-pointes for Basil .
7 Pop culture thus works through an amalgam of attitude , inspiration , intuition and detail ( for nobody is as obsessive as the true pop fan , whose obsession is rarely given the respect it deserves ) ; crucially , it works best not in public , where the terms of discourse are set by the dominant culture , but in private space .
8 The rateable value is set by the local valuation office , which is a branch of the Inland Revenue .
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