Example sentences of "[be] set by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | Standards that have been set by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The opening price for " Node Check " had already been set by the dealing manager , who had arrived a little earlier . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ] . |
| 8 | Inside it looked a bit old-fashioned , as if the style had been set by the Festival of Britain and never changed . |
| 9 | Fees are set by the owners under Acts of Parliament , and vary widely . |
| 10 | If more than half the parents are fairly well off and eager to expand facilities in their school , they can set levels for school charges which are beyond the means of the poorer parents ( fee levels are set by the government ) . |
| 11 | Business parameters are set by the market ; the focus is the customer or client and their demands . |
| 12 | It is therefore crucial that standards are set by the EEC and that manufacturers , government and retailers should be forced to provide the best technology on the market . |
| 13 | Yet these contexts are set by the parameters of political discourse in exactly the same manner as the conceptual vocabulary of academics and practitioners structures their own treatment of the same issues . |
| 14 | It appears , although this is not quite clear from the MoS , that they are YTS trainees , whose pay levels are set by the government . |
| 15 | The standards of the best are set by the competition and one 's aim is always to exceed them . |
| 16 | But on the whole it is easy to value paintings by Japanese artists as they paint similar subjects , and new prices are set by the dealers ' auction which takes place once a month at the Tokyo Bijutsu Club , of which most big dealers are members . |
| 17 | The wages of farm workers are set by the Agricultural Wages Board ( for England and Wales ) . |
| 18 | Pop culture thus works through an amalgam of attitude , inspiration , intuition and detail ( for nobody is as obsessive as the true pop fan , whose obsession is rarely given the respect it deserves ) ; crucially , it works best not in public , where the terms of discourse are set by the dominant culture , but in private space . |
| 19 | The Council water charges are set by the Regional Council each year in order to cover the costs of providing a water service to domestic consumers , in this regard separate accounts must be maintained by the Council in respect of water costs and income from the Council water charges . |
| 20 | They are set by the market and reflect international trading conditions . |
| 21 | Catch quotas in the open seas are set by the North Atlantic Fisheries Organization , but the EC set its own , higher , quotas in 1986 in response to pressure from the depressed Iberian fishing industry . |
| 22 | Specific policy objectives are set by the government , and put into action by the bank , although the Bank has an important role as adviser to the government on monetary policy matters . |
| 23 | Notice that the curved arrow instruction comes first , that is , knit two rows with the main carriage , therefore there is no necessity to have a curved arrow on the third row , the third row of holes will be set by the two knit rows of the fourth row symbol . |
| 24 | Recommended US price is $1,000 for a single licence , going down to $600 per user for 100 concurrent users on the network : UK prices will be set by the various sales channels . |
| 25 | It has been suggested ( Knuth 1969 , pp. 199–201 ) that testing for floating.point zero is not appropriate , and that a more suitable test would be for any value in a small range about zero , the size of which could be set by the programmer . |
| 26 | Canon have already announced an n by 508dpi engine where the horizontal scan frequency can be set by the OEM and which , even more significantly , can handle pages up to 24″ by 36″ or will take roll-fed paper up to 13′ . |
| 27 | Here conditions may be set by the most senior officer present . |
| 28 | The uniform poundage will be set by the government in April 1990 at a level to ensure that , taking account of inflation , the total amount that the business sector pays nationally in 1990–91 figure paid in 1989–90 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Uniform national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQSs ) were to be set by the EPA to protect public health and welfare ( table 8.1 ) . |