Example sentences of "[noun] [be] set by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business parameters are set by the market ; the focus is the customer or client and their demands . |
| 2 | a partly automatic system is better , in which the time for regeneration is set by the operator after tests to determine the water hardness . |
| 3 | Is a prisoner serving a life sentence entitled to make representations before his tariff is set by the Secretary of State ? 4 . |
| 4 | The voltage gain of the amplifier is set by the ratio of resistor R1 to R1 at 11 times . |
| 5 | The upper limit on the amount of data is set by the database that has to handle it all , rather than by the car code system . |
| 6 | While the final policy on all major legal and financial matters is set by the company 's managing director or president , the advice offered by these specialist executives improves the efficiency , profitability and overall performance of the company . |
| 7 | The trend for suburban dwelling was set by the wealthy , and planned suburbs appeared in order to meet their needs in the 1860s . |
| 8 | The wages of farm workers are set by the Agricultural Wages Board ( for England and Wales ) . |
| 9 | The renewal fee is set by the Council with the concurrence of the Master of the Rolls . |
| 10 | In order to prevent boredom and give motivation a theme is set by the conductor running the session . |
| 11 | The second theme is set by the title — the self-made man — which harks back to Gordon Childe 's Man Makes Himself ( 1936 ) . |
| 12 | A different kind of limitation is set by the third condition and it is this which we will look at now . |
| 13 | The standard charge is set by the local council , and can be zero , one half , equal to , one and a half or twice the cost of the personal community charge in the area . |
| 14 | The term ‘ the inner city ’ may tell us much more about the manner in which an agenda of social problems is set by the combined and unequal influences of a variety of interest groups than about the political economy of cities but its very reproduction in a set of discourses about ‘ the urban ’ guarantees it a status of its own . |
| 15 | ‘ Our product and service standards are geared to what the customer requires , not set in concrete , ’ says ‘ The standard of service is set by the guest . |
| 16 | John Matcham 's name was set by the printer and the ‘ woollcomber ’ pulled the press . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | It appears , although this is not quite clear from the MoS , that they are YTS trainees , whose pay levels are set by the government . |
| 20 | Long , graduated tails , in which all but the outermost feathers are elongated , generate the same lift as normal tails ( because maximum span is set by the outermost feathers and so does not change ) but substantially more drag , as elongation adds considerably to tail area . |
| 21 | The pattern was set by the first fanatics , destined to become the heroes of later generations . |
| 22 | The example was set by the Despensers , especially the younger , who flourished in the king 's continued favour and looked to their own profit while they extended his . |
| 23 | The lower age limit was set by the National Institute for Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke and the Alzheimer 's Disease and Related Disorders Association ( NINCDS-ADRDA ) and the upper age set by convention for presenile disease . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Payments were set by the Warsaw Convention , which , executive director Geoffrey Lipman complains , is 60 years out of date , although the protection guidelines are still valid . |
| 27 | These are known as tap bills and the rate of discount is set by the Treasury . |
| 28 | The grimmer tone of government was set by the new head of the Third Section , P. A. Shuvalov : typical of the ministerial changes which took place was the replacement of A. V. Golovnin , the liberally minded Minister of Education , by the notoriously reactionary Dmitrii Tolstoy . |
| 29 | During the cold war , the size of America 's armed forces was set by the threat from the Warsaw Pact . |
| 30 | 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 . |