Example sentences of "set [adv prt] by a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Forty two year old decorated U D R veteran , Albert Cooper , was set up by a woman who left a booby-trapped car at this garage for repairs . |
| 32 | The activating field producing resonance is the electric and magnetic field set up by an overhead power line or magnetic field producing appliance such as an electric blanket , etc . |
| 33 | Special Rapporteur Riphagen expounded what he termed the three parameters of relationship in international law which are set up by an internationally wrongful act . |
| 34 | The largest of the 1930s house builders , New Ideal Homesteads , was set up by an ex-local authority surveyor in the late 1920s . |
| 35 | The broad policies of investment trust companies are set out by a board of directors , and as with any limited company they are limited by the articles of association and shareholder approval . |
| 36 | ‘ I have offered a prediction to several officials of the Soviet government that , on the present slow course , the reforms run a very high risk of being set back by a general collapse of confidence in the rouble — an inflationary disintegration , ’ Mr Angell said . |
| 37 | Between 1873 and 1878 , for example , the hesitant growth of American trade unionism was dramatically set back by a 5-year economic depression . |