Example sentences of "[pron] [be] set by " in BNC.
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| 1 | This quotation gives a vivid insight into how someone who is basically sympathetic towards black people can come to adopt a racialist language in order to conform to the expectations of the group , which are set by a minority of active racists . |
| 2 | In the " picotage " method , printing blocks were studded with tens of thousands of pins or studs which were set by young women who could , after completing their apprenticeship , earn the very high wage for women of 12 to 14s ( 60-70p ) a week . |
| 3 | The roots of lady 's bedstraw ( Galium verum ) , , produce an orange-red colour which is set by adding alum . |
| 4 | The first is the local community , through the Community Charge , which is payable by almost every adult ( some 35 million in all , as against 17 million who paid rates ) , and the level of which is set by each local authority ( though subject to ‘ capping ’ by central government ) . |
| 5 | I think also , the people of Wiltshire will be glad that it us here setting the budget , and therefore the precept and their council tax next year , and something that people will be looking at is their council tax bills , and noting that they go up by six point three percent , or are proposed to , with the provisional assets aim which is set by the government . |
| 6 | But the provisional guid the guideline which was set by Policy and Resources in the first instance , was just for this Committee to identify seventy thousand pounds ' worth of reductions . |
| 7 | They are set by the market and reflect international trading conditions . |
| 8 | It is set by two main things : the economic circumstances of the day , and the way in which firms are owned . |
| 9 | This duty to disclose is not limited by medical practice , it is set by law . |