Example sentences of "determine by [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 Wonderful as many of them are , it should still be more widely stressed by doctors that the health of human beings is so often determined by their behaviour , their food and the nature of their environment .
2 Undoubtedly , ‘ Walter ’ was a fine film , if films are determined by their acting , direction , script .
3 Since many signals could be of the STOP and GO type , complexity would emerge because the cells ' responses would be determined by their past history .
4 ‘ As far as possible , the daily lives of people should be determined by their own decisions about their own timetable .
5 The position and arrangement of the bigger flowers will be determined by their variety and colour .
6 The approachability of NHS authorities will largely be determined by their current recruitment situation .
7 All three categories gel into a coherent formulation which states that blacks ' achievements in sport are related to factors determined by their race .
8 Even in 1789 , long after revenue officers ceased to personally exercise the right of voting , and were rarely active in county politics , their promotions were still determined by their connection to voters .
9 Jenkins argues that enlightenment thinking in Beccaria 's time was ‘ advanced ’ : atheistic and deterministic ideas proposing that humans are determined by their social environment , that morality is relative and that the justification for the existing social order was consequently bogus , were being openly espoused .
10 Finally , different antihypertensive drugs ' appropriateness for the impaired renal function of diabetic subjects should be determined by their differences concerning clinically relevant end points — for example , difference in the rate of deterioration in the glomerular filtration rate .
11 Bonus payments in general serve to promote involvement in the company but the share of each individual is determined by their own performance and that of their work group .
12 The economic and social position of this upper class is determined by their ownership of productive wealth , and the substantial incomes they gain through such ownership .
13 Observing that people 's perceptions of reality are often determined by their expectations ( they see what they want to see ) and that this can contribute to a serious disjunction between ‘ espoused theory ’ and ‘ theory in use ’ , they proposed strategies for increasing professional effectiveness based on encouraging receptivity to critical feedback .
14 Or , as Marx said , people 's consciousness was determined by their social being ( albeit not entirely determined by their economic position ) .
15 Or , as Marx said , people 's consciousness was determined by their social being ( albeit not entirely determined by their economic position ) .
16 Overall , women 's claims to maintenance from the state both determine and are determined by their relationship to their families and the formal labour market .
17 It involves making judgements about how people will and should behave on the basis of gender stereotypes believed to be determined by their sex .
18 The form of human institutions is not determined by their functional adequacy in the way that both Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown seem to have believed .
19 These protein molecules curl up into a particular shape determined by their own amino-acid sequence , which in turn is governed by the DNA code sequence of the gene G. When G mutates , the change makes a crucial difference to the amino-acid sequence normally specified by the gene G , and hence to the coiled-up shape of the protein molecule .
20 This states that other non-monetary effects on aggregate demand ( such as private investment expenditure ) are determined by their values in the previous period plus a random or surprise term .
21 Underlying the research is the view that the ways organisations compete are , in part , determined by their views of the world in which they operate .
22 Commodore 's extraordinary name for the system was determined by their concern to avoid any potential trademark problems by actually calling it CDTV , the name they favoured and by which the system is now universally known .
23 And cultural determinism is the idea that they way people think and act , is largely determined by their culture , their upbringing , their socialization , their home environment , peer group pressure , this kind of thing , and is not to be looked for in natural causes , in their genes , for example , or in individual psychological experience , as was the prime focus of Freud in psychoanalysis .
24 Similarly , if we take two speakers at random we will almost certainly find that one speaker typically speaks with lower pitch than the other ; the difference between the two speakers is not linguistically significant because their habitual pitch level is determined by their physical structure .
25 We also find another kind of variation : in the example just given above , the occurrence of the phonemes being discussed was determined by their phonological context , but sometimes the determining factor is lexical rather than phonological .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 Intriguingly , the snail 's hand of coiling is not determined by its own genetic complement ( genome ) but by that of its mother .
29 The settlement pattern of this migrant population in West Ham was determined by its industrial topography .
30 The size of a black hole is determined by its escape velocity .
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