Example sentences of "[adv] set by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This problem appears in a more or less acute form in many countries whose borders were arbitrarily set by colonial rulers or as the outcome of wars . |
| 2 | It could be forgotten that these limitations are also set by environmental factors . |
| 3 | As a relative newcomer , political sociology has made wider claims and has sought to extend the notions of power and politics beyond the confines traditionally set by political science . |
| 4 | Many companies still use incredibly short payback periods , often set by financial directors playing a very risk-averse game . |
| 5 | The UBR also represented a change in that the ‘ poundage rate ’ under this scheme was now set by central government and not by the local authority . |
| 6 | These limits were originally set by phonographic performance Limited , representing the record companies , and the Musicians ' Union , to safeguard the viability of commercial recordings . ) |
| 7 | Another general constraint that must not be overlooked is , of course , the fact that the scarcity and control of public finance frequently sets limits to policy developments In some cases these limits are quite explicitly set by central government . |
| 8 | The research investigates the implications of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 , which makes provision for the revaluation of all non-domestic properties in England and Wales for rating purposes , and the application of a national uniform business rate to replace the rate-in-the-pound currently set by individual local authorities . |
| 9 | However , charges subsequently set by individual local councils were almost without exception in excess of this level , and on March 21 Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , stated that the average actual charge for England had turned out to be £363 ; he blamed this excess principally on the actions of Labour controlled councils ( and announcements on April 3 and 10 listed a total of 21 local authorities which were to be " capped " — i.e. their expenditure limited to a level determined by the central government ) . |