Example sentences of "determined by " in BNC.

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1 A different sort of response to art is to use it as a means of learning more about the society in which it was produced ; this may be felt by a theoretician to be more important than to know the artist 's intentions , which , it can be argued , are determined by society .
2 The execution , however , and this is typical of the 17th century Dutch masters , is more minute ; and the composition , completely determined by a diagonal , is stricter than that of the English painters .
3 The content of an article will tend to be determined by its length ; no newspaper article is likely to be more than 1,000 words , which precludes any chance of detailed analysis .
4 Both novels see the world in colonial colours — as determined by empires , in the furtherance of which races have defeated and enslaved each other , in which they have met and married , in which a black mercenary might marry a daughter of Venice .
5 In 1978 , on the basis of their professional knowledge of schooling and civil administration , the organization succeeded in obtaining the necessary government permission to open in Dalkey a multi-denominational school governed principally by the parents , the mode of religious instruction to be determined by them .
6 Built for Charringtons , this blended surprisingly well with the company 's corporate identity as determined by Milner Gray of the Design Research Unit , an identity which itself reflected an early 19th century graphic feeling .
7 The rest is determined by decor , the welcome you give and the atmosphere .
8 Can sport retain an ethical base or will its involvement with television mean that it becomes completely dominated and determined by financial considerations ?
9 This fear of the mob has continued to haunt the executive , who saw that control could best be determined by the installation of a professional police organization formulated on strict hierarchic , semi-militaristic lines , and possessed of discipline , obedience , and loyalty .
10 These are governed by an often unwritten series of transformations , creating homologies which reaffirm operational practice and which are determined by a definitive , but rarely acknowledged rationale .
11 For example the considerable criticism of the police response to domestic disputes ‘ mainly related to their failure to take effective action by arresting men who assault their wives and girl friends ’ ( Shapland and Hobbs 1989 ) is largely determined by wider social factors pertaining to the historical role and place of women in society .
12 The statistical expansion of recorded crimes and a success largely determined by detection rates support the inevitable institutional contention that more control is a necessity , and has been a corner-stone in police ideology for the whole of my service .
13 One of the conditions for ascribing to oneself experiences of a mind-independent reality , Kant argued , was that we should be capable of distinguishing between those sequences of perceptions ( if you like , ‘ representations delivered up by the input systems ’ ) which are determined by the movement of objects and those which are determined by our own movements .
14 One of the conditions for ascribing to oneself experiences of a mind-independent reality , Kant argued , was that we should be capable of distinguishing between those sequences of perceptions ( if you like , ‘ representations delivered up by the input systems ’ ) which are determined by the movement of objects and those which are determined by our own movements .
15 Flavell accounts for this paradox in terms of , what he calls , cognitive salience , which amounts to the claim that the thought of the three-year-old is determined by whatever is ‘ up front in consciousness ’ at any given moment .
16 The ratio of fast twitch to slow twitch fibres varies between individuals and is determined by heredity .
17 The amount of calories a person needs each day is determined by the type of work they do , the exercise they take and their metabolic rate .
18 The selection of dancers is also made easier because dancers full roughly into four categories ( see page 51 ) which are determined by individual characteristics and abilities .
19 To do so , both verbs and nouns need to be qualified by adjectives and/or adverbs determined by the choreographers during the making of the design .
20 ‘ Metrical movement determined by the various relations of long and short , or accented and unaccented beats ’ , e.g. the choreographer 's arrangement of steps and poses
21 Stavrogin ca n't , and in our definitive text does n't , claim to be a decent man or to have any other thing to be ; all his letter indicates is a deathlike mime or sleepwalk within behaviour patterns determined by upbringing , class , and kind .
22 However , the Pope 's account of the role of the papacy went a great deal farther than that : Christian unity , he said , must be founded on the faith in Christ that was handed on by the Apostles ; what this faith is must be determined by the Roman Catholic Church .
23 The timing was determined by the known peak level of their activity , and by nothing else .
24 Inflation is determined by money supply growth .
25 Decisions about data collection should be determined by the need for an informed society as well as for the concerns of government ; 2 .
26 The Eurodisney share price , 707p in sterling terms , is determined by its price in Paris and the relative exchange rates , and the issue will succeed or fail on the willingness of ordinary French people to invest in this project .
27 As Fielding has shown ( 1988b ) , what counts as good police work to ordinary policemen and women is not determined by official standards of performance , but by a range of contextual factors .
28 Hence it can be determined by practical considerations arising from the organization of police work , such as the time of the shift , the approach of shift change-over , the time of the year , considerations about overtime , and the dislike of paperwork ( Gardner 1969 : 132 ; Holdaway 1980 : 59 , 1983 : 57 ) .
29 Political attitudes were very largely determined by partisanship , but not completely .
30 At the ruling prices fixed in a market determined by competition to meet this demand , the local authorities placed their contracts for estates to be built for slum clearance and relief of overcrowding .
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