Example sentences of "[verb] [be] set by " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mood has been set by what he has witnessed . |
| 2 | The TSBs have told us that their lending , started only in 1977 , is increasing rapidly ( within a quota which has been set by the Treasury ) . |
| 3 | The standard has been set by Penny 's monumental work , and he is to be heartily congratulated for his achievement . |
| 4 | One would also have expected the density fluctuations in such a model to have led to the formation of many more primordial black holes than the upper limit that has been set by observations of the gamma ray background . |
| 5 | similarly , the quantity of records , cassettes and CDs to be manufactured is set by the company 's sales and marketing departments . |
| 6 | The maximum value of any put is set by its exercise price : . |
| 7 | In all probability it was a combination of several factors , not least the suspected flaw in her stamina which made her vulnerable once that fierce early pace had been set by St Denis . |
| 8 | This barn owl 's broken wing had been set by a vet who kept it in a cat cage for a week or two so that it could rest . |
| 9 | ‘ That week orchestras around the world programmed the Adagietto as an elegy to Lenny 's memory , ’ Kaplan recalls , ‘ and while the precedent had been set by Bernstein himself [ he had conducted the movement at a memorial service for Koussevitzky and later at the funeral of US Senator Robert Kennedy ] , I was afraid that these ultra-slow , sad performances were helping to a trend into a false tradition . ’ |
| 10 | The pattern for these accusations had been set by the young Liberal Charles Masterman in The Heart of the Empire ( 1902 ) where he had thundered out his warning of inevitable decline as the result of the ‘ perpetual lowering in the vitality of the Imperial Race in the great cities of the Kingdom through over-crowding in room and in area ’ : What was never entirely clear was whether it was merely a physical deterioration that was eating away at the ‘ Imperial Race ’ , or if a moral decay was not also in evidence . |
| 11 | At this time the fastest anyone had yet covered the English mile distance had been set by the professional runner , William Richards , at 4 minutes 17¼ seconds in Manchester on 19 August 1865 . |
| 12 | Any suggestion of Italianism is stamped out by the steady march of the voices : Incidentally , one of Kittel 's Arien is a setting of the last three strophes of Opitz 's ‘ Nachtklag ’ , the first six of which had been set by Schütz as a madrigal , ‘ Itzt blicken durch des Himmels Saal ’ for five voices , two violins , and continuo . |
| 13 | The deadline of Dec. 15 had been set by the UN after Cristiani had tried to delay a purge of senior military figures [ see p. 39137 ] . |
| 14 | The previous record had been set by Fiorentina , who went 40 league games without defeat in 1955-56 . |
| 15 | Inside it looked a bit old-fashioned , as if the style had been set by the Festival of Britain and never changed . |
| 16 | Number twos tend therefore to be passed over ( except for the top job in America , for which agreeably relaxed standards of industry have been set by a recent incumbent ) . |
| 17 | Determining how much is too much is debatable but authoritative ( if somewhat tough ) guidelines have been set by Alcohol Concern in consultation with the Health Education Council and the medical professions ( Alcohol Concern , 1986 , p. 5 ) . |
| 18 | Precedents have been set by the Trans-Pennine Movement ( with an all-party MPs ' group in support ) , by the powerful counter-action in the North East when Scottish devolution was in the air ; the developmental spirit of the regional economic planning councils abolished by government in 1979 is abroad again , though unconnected , in all three regions . |
| 19 | Standards that have been set by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders . |