Example sentences of "[be] set by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This barn owl 's broken wing had been set by a vet who kept it in a cat cage for a week or two so that it could rest . |
2 | Standards that have been set by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders . |
3 | 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 ) . |
4 | Inside it looked a bit old-fashioned , as if the style had been set by the Festival of Britain and never changed . |
5 | The opening price for " Node Check " had already been set by the dealing manager , who had arrived a little earlier . |
6 | This quotation gives a vivid insight into how someone who is basically sympathetic towards black people can come to adopt a racialist language in order to conform to the expectations of the group , which are set by a minority of active racists . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | The standards of the best are set by the competition and one 's aim is always to exceed them . |
9 | 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 ) . |
10 | It appears , although this is not quite clear from the MoS , that they are YTS trainees , whose pay levels are set by the government . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Business parameters are set by the market ; the focus is the customer or client and their demands . |
13 | They are set by the market and reflect international trading conditions . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | It is a game for 4–40 year olds with various difficulty levels that can be set by the parent or teacher . |
16 | With the help of his mother and sister , he agreed to continue this work at home which would be set by the school and assessment centre jointly . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | The other islands followed and had slave majorities by the 1670s , and once they had done so the process was irreversible ; white men could not be persuaded to come to an area where wages were set by the cost of slave labour . |
19 | The limits of liberalisation were set by the faction within the party which held power . |
20 | For all the centuries of recorded time it has existed as an art in which style and fashion were set by the taste of an aristocracy ; bourgeois jewellery , peasant jewellery in less precious materials such as we now call costume jewellery , all imitated court fashion … |
21 | I would personally like to see more erm sort of grading of erm more , more higher standards being set by the sort of head offices of people who own things like chains of motorway service areas , not catering for the lowest common denominator , but aiming to really have an absolutely top quality service , cleanliness , everything , in all parts of their business . |
22 | In most companies , top people 's pay is set by a group of non-executive directors . |
23 | A curious problem is set by the discovery of a few jade axes in England recently . |
24 | The rate of interest , in the shape of a tax-free bonus , is set by the Treasury . |
25 | These are known as tap bills and the rate of discount is set by the Treasury . |
26 | Is a prisoner serving a life sentence entitled to make representations before his tariff is set by the Secretary of State ? 4 . |
27 | However , even with no release , a lower limit to [ Glu ] o is set by the stoichiometry of the uptake carrier . |
28 | The wage is set by the union executive to maximize the expected utility of the median voter . |
29 | The rate of interest is set by the lender and is governed by a host of economic factors , all widely publicised in the national press . |
30 | This register , the condition code , is set by the testing instruction to reflect the result . |