Example sentences of "the [noun sg] set by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Home Secretary 's remarks on PR , made to party workers in Stroud , are the most strident so far used by a senior Conservative against electoral reform , which is the condition set by the Liberal Democrats for their support in a hung Parliament . |
| 2 | Will Major and Hurd be able to neutralise the timebomb set by the social chapter amendment ? asks Chris McLaughlin |
| 3 | Mercury in Liverpool Bay fish presents no real cause for concern to consumers , for the content is well below the limit set by the European Community [ EC ] . |
| 4 | Default interest for VAT underdeclared on returns is the same as the rate set by the Inland Revenue ( see this issue p 129 ) . |
| 5 | In Dar es Salaam and elsewhere during 1967 and 1968 , one occasionally heard mention of Mwafrika as if it still existed , only to discover that what was being referred to was actually Uhuru , the official daily paper of TANU , This confusion was understandable : the Mwafrika of 1965 bore no relation to what people remembered of the old one , but the pattern set by the earlier Mwafrika and Zuhra seems to have been continued after independence by Uhuru and Ngurumo . |
| 6 | The European companies were hoping to meet the deadline set by the International Radio Consultative Committee for the presentation of technical proposals for a new system which , once chosen , would effectively set a world standard , Japan and the USA having already submitted their applications to the Committee . |
| 7 | So , as the deadline set by the United Nations Security Council passed , new sanctions came into effect . |
| 8 | At 10:58am , two minutes before the deadline set by the Scottish Office , which bought the house from Tayside Regional Council under compulsory purchase to clear the way for the road , sheriff officers arrived to execute the eviction warrant . |
| 9 | The scale set by the Inland Revenue and the law for agents dealing with public authorities is known as Ryde 's Scale , and was amended in 1984 by the ‘ Revised Annex to Ryde 's Scale ’ . |
| 10 | Further more , it falls well short of the target set by the influential think-tank of former policymakers , the Group of 30 , for a three-day ( T+3 ) rolling settlement system . |
| 11 | There are detailed provisions which , following the precedent set by the 1985 Companies Act in the same context , attribute voting rights held by one person to another . |