Example sentences of "[be] set by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | In Britain , the political system is grounded in a fundamental consensus as to the desired ends of public policy and the means to attain them , and so the rules of the interest group game are set by society to ensure " fair play " and free access for all legitimate interests that want the ear of government . |
| 3 | In this version we shall in fact assume that it is wages that are set by trade unions one period in advance and that prices are flexible ; that is , we shall examine a sticky wage rather than a sticky price model . |
| 4 | School budgets are set by formula and depend largely on the number of pupils . |
| 5 | From the perspective of the late 1980s , the latter two interpretations seem more plausible than the first ; the terms of the conjunctural negotiations , while by no means monolithic , seem to be set by chart pop , ‘ stadium rock ’ , disco , and middle-of-the-road styles . |
| 6 | In the agriculture and forestry sector the committee would set a target only for rice production , leaving export quotas for other major products such as rubber and coffee to be set by government departments . |
| 7 | Standards tend to be set by comparison with what is consistently achievable under the circumstances . |
| 8 | They came with fiddly switches and jumpers which had to be set by hand , arcane rituals of interrupt conflict avoidance , instructions written in terse technobabble . |
| 9 | The summit also resolved to create " a programme to support development efforts in the Arab and Islamic world " , by setting up a fund expected to total some US$15,000-20,000 million , with contributions to be set by Finance Ministers at a forthcoming meeting . |
| 10 | Although by mid-1941 peak powers of about 50 kW at 10 cm wavelength were obtainable , upper limits to power and efficiency were set by mode jumping . |
| 11 | Their rates of exchange are quite artificial , being set by government interest-rate policies , and are easily exploited by parasitic speculators . |
| 12 | The rules of the game , then , far from being set by society so as to ensure fair play for all , seemed to be set by the local authorities . |
| 13 | This duty to disclose is not limited by medical practice , it is set by law . |
| 14 | Subject to some negotiation , the level of any such limits was set by reference to what the organization considered to be its " core " level of business , and again there were substantial variations to be observed . |
| 15 | The tone of the debate was set by Home Secretary William Whitelaw 's introductory statement in which he spoke of ( a ) the need to ‘ remove the scourge of criminal violence from our streets ’ , and ( b ) the urgency of developing ‘ policies designed to promote the mutual tolerance and understanding upon which the whole future of a free democratic society depends ’ ( Hansard , vol. 8 , 16 July 1981 : col. 1405 ) . |
| 16 | A record for a sword was set by lot 239 , a Fukuoka Ichimonji Tachi from the Kamakura period ( second half of the thirteenth century ) signed Ichi ; estimated at $200–300,000 , it sold for $380,000 ( £218,400 ) to a European private collector . |
| 17 | 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 . |