Example sentences of "[noun pl] set by the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As will be discussed below , the treatment of detainees suspected of security offences is still open to serious questioning , but the operations of the penal system itself continue within the bounds set by the Statute of Rights .
2 The tribunal said it appeared that Ms Oruene had brought the complaint in the mistaken but genuine belief that graduates of English or Scottish universities who did not have passes in the compulsory subjects set by the faculty would still have been granted exemptions from the exams .
3 Whereas the standards and styles set by the peer group can set highly influential markers around acceptable and unacceptable behaviours for young people it is in individual friendships that young people find support and security , negotiate their emotional independence , exchange information , put beliefs and feelings into words and develop a new and different perspective of themselves .
4 It has thus politicised the problem of violence beyond the parameters set by the law and order debate .
5 The absence of alternatives to becoming highly dependent on private companies may leave little choice but to accept the parameters set by the ideology of the firm as a family .
6 The use and refinement of existing powers The legal and operational precedents set by the strike were being followed and expanded by the police almost as soon as the dispute was over .
7 It was later estimated that , because of the rising price of oil and increasing production quotas set by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) , this figure was an underestimate .
8 From 1967 to 1979 , tuna catch quotas set by the Commission were approved by the IATTC countries .
9 Another example of a conflict between official and unofficial group norms can be drawn from a situation where a group itself decides to operate a certain level of output over a given time , regardless of targets set by the management in their search for increased efficiency and productivity .
10 The high targets set by the government have meant that colonies have often been badly located , and inadequately supported .
11 It is a rolling assessment , which is recosted every year in the late summer so that the effects of financial targets set by the Treasury for the coming year can be fully assessed before the Cabinet starts its Public Expenditure Review in the autumn .
12 At the beginning of the annual costing exercises there is usually a significant gap between the targets set by the Treasury and the genuine requirements of the Services , which no amount of discounting can bridge .
13 The targets set by the School Management Task Force are realistic as part of large-scale management , and the detailed approach of the SDPP is likely to be more immediately valuable to schools .
14 This works like an individual Filofax where copies of appraisals and checklists of personal targets set by the employee are included .
15 They added an essential element of credibility to the high-sounding rhetoric required of franchise bids by the ‘ public service , conditions set by the ITA .
16 Questions set by the computer , which then supplies the answer for checking purposes after a randomly set time delay , seem to have a powerful motivating effect and are but one example of the effectiveness of the computer 's simulating the random elements which the pupil experiences in everyday life and work .
17 Staff of OPSSAT act to the instructions and priorities set by the President of SSATs .
18 Attempts to solve the problem become more and more radical and the rules set by the paradigm for the solution of problems become progressively more loosened .
19 Managers can then exercise as much authority and carry as much responsibility as possible within the constraints of the policies set by the organisation and the commitments they have made to their own superior executive .
20 This was expressed in terms of freedom to do certain things ( refer to hospitals of their choice ; spend money on new staff and equipment ) and freedom from externally determined policies and procedures ( for example , contracts set by the district health authority ) .
21 I think there is a tendency erm for local authority planners to have horizons set by the end date of the current plan period , and work , try and work in that , sort of around the real world I think , where nothing happens , or nothing is conceivable , beyond that time period , erm , this particular approach , er does not work in the case of new settlements , there is no need when having established your design size for a new settlement that it necessarily all has to be built within current plan period , and I think this sort of approach is recognized in Cambridgeshire where , in case of the A forty five new settlement , a view was taken at an early stage that a new settlement of three thousand dwellings was needed to meet long term development needs in Cambridgeshire , an area where the planning issues and problems where very similar to those of York , and the approved structure plan in policy proposed that new settlement to be designated as three thousand , of which two thousand portion would be built within the current plan period , so it seems to me that the the question of size need not be an impediment to erm designation of a new settlement if the existing requirement and need are adjudged not to require the sort of new settlement size that we are creating .
22 The romantic-lyrical ballad style of twentieth-century Tin Pan Alley clings stubbornly to its role in the representation of gender relations within the norms set by the stereotype of the bourgeois couple , despite attempts made from time to time to move it into new patterns with new meanings .
23 Over 90 per cent stated that they frequently supervised and assisted small groups of children engaged in educational activities set by the teacher , and encouraged children by offering appropriate attention and by showing interest in their activities .
24 Over 90 per cent of the assistants frequently supervised and assisted small groups of children engaged in educational activities set by the teacher , and slightly fewer worked with individuals and related their progress to the teacher .
25 objectives set by the government and by the industry itself ;
26 She is then able to cover the same ground , using the objectives set by the ward .
27 The city claims the levels set by the pueblo for one pollutant " arsenic " are 1,000 times lower than occur naturally .
28 Elm Energy , which is operating the plant on a contract from the Non-Fossil Purchasing Agency , says the power station will be the cleanest in the country ; £48 million has been spent on equipment to ensure that emissions are well below maximum levels set by the World Health Organisation .
29 What cruel irony it will be if my own uncompromising and innovatory integrity should lead me into the mantraps set by the sort of people who scarcely know one end of a pen from another .
30 From their room they can make UK or international calls at rates set by the hotelier , enabling recovery of the cost of the call , together with a service charge .
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