Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] set by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some books were set by a single compositor , but |
| 2 | Payments were set by the Warsaw Convention , which , executive director Geoffrey Lipman complains , is 60 years out of date , although the protection guidelines are still valid . |
| 3 | During the cold war , the size of America 's armed forces was set by the threat from the Warsaw Pact . |
| 4 | The group is also concerned that if , as currently proposed , internationally-harmonized food standards were set by the Codex Alimentarius Commission [ see SAFE report , below ] , quality would decline . |
| 5 | 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 . |