Example sentences of "[be] set by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standards that have been set by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders . |
| 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 | Inside it looked a bit old-fashioned , as if the style had been set by the Festival of Britain and never changed . |
| 4 | The opening price for " Node Check " had already been set by the dealing manager , who had arrived a little earlier . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The standards of the best are set by the competition and one 's aim is always to exceed them . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | It appears , although this is not quite clear from the MoS , that they are YTS trainees , whose pay levels are set by the government . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Business parameters are set by the market ; the focus is the customer or client and their demands . |
| 11 | They are set by the market and reflect international trading conditions . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is a game for 4–40 year olds with various difficulty levels that can be set by the parent or teacher . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The limits of liberalisation were set by the faction within the party which held power . |
| 18 | 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 … |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A curious problem is set by the discovery of a few jade axes in England recently . |
| 21 | The rate of interest , in the shape of a tax-free bonus , is set by the Treasury . |
| 22 | These are known as tap bills and the rate of discount is set by the Treasury . |
| 23 | Is a prisoner serving a life sentence entitled to make representations before his tariff is set by the Secretary of State ? 4 . |
| 24 | However , even with no release , a lower limit to [ Glu ] o is set by the stoichiometry of the uptake carrier . |
| 25 | The wage is set by the union executive to maximize the expected utility of the median voter . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This register , the condition code , is set by the testing instruction to reflect the result . |
| 28 | The pervading atmosphere is one of the 1910s and 1920s , and the tone is set by the holiday houses hiding , like Undertown , among macracarpa trees , or braving it on the cliff with their faces looking to the Atlantic . |
| 29 | similarly , the quantity of records , cassettes and CDs to be manufactured is set by the company 's sales and marketing departments . |
| 30 | 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 . |