Example sentences of "set [adv prt] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are arrived at using criteria set down by the Joint Negotiating Committee for Chief Officers of Local Authorities . |
| 2 | Ewan Murray , the Games council 's chairman , said cost was not a factor in selecting the team , but only 15 athletes achieved the stringent qualifying standards set down by the Scottish Amateur Athletic Associaton — and one , Allister Hutton , is not going to Auckland because he wished to run in the 10,000 metres instead of the marathon , for which he had qualified . |
| 3 | The plan clears up the legal wrangles set off by the federal government 's decision in 1988 to sue the state government over water quality in the Everglades , but leaves unclear many of the details of the clean-up . |
| 4 | If Britain follows the policies and approaches set out by the right hon. Gentleman , it will be in the second division in the Community . |
| 5 | Other studies which offer recommendations for buildings used by visually handicapped people in the community include those set out by the Royal Institute of British Architects ( 1981 ) which give a six-point plan to maximise safety and efficiency in the use of buildings , namely : |
| 6 | These changes followed from recommendations set out by the Public Accounts Committee ( PAC ) in its Eighth Report of 1986–7 ( HC 98 ) Members said that they wanted documents tailored more specifically to Parliament 's needs in its consideration of departments ' expenditure proposals and put forward three proposals ( Cm. 375 ) . |
| 7 | Though in itself fairly insensitive under normal conditions it had to be set off by the early , very sensitive , mercury-fulminate detonator which was fired by safety fuze . |
| 8 | The whole collection was set off by the saxe-blue Jacobean embroidery thrown over the shelves on which the pieces were carefully arranged . |
| 9 | ‘ So it was set off by the simple act of turning on the lamp ? ’ |
| 10 | This takes a similar form to the Arch of Peace and is set off by the extended , arcaded arms that drift along the edge of the square . |
| 11 | Despite the wear and tear of many a performance it 's still a cracking guitar , with its classically timeless shape beautifully set off by the tobacco-yellowed binding . |
| 12 | The second working party , set up by the General Practitioner Board , is also looking at training but within the wider context of what the future holds for small accountancy practices . |
| 13 | The second is the joint committee set up by the General Council of the Bar and The Law Society , chaired by Lady Marre , which reported in July 1988 ( Marre Committee , 1988 ) . |
| 14 | Thus it was Floridablanca , a stiff bureaucrat , who planned the road system radiating from Madrid , the completion of which was to be the achievement of Isabelline liberalism ; indeed , the fate of the Corps of Road Engineers , set up in the eighteenth century , was bound up with the fate of liberalism itself ; dismantled by Ferdinand VII it was set up by the Liberal Revolution in 1820 ; dissolved in the reaction of 1823 , it was re-established by liberals in 1834 . |
| 15 | This week Andrew Large , the chairman of the Securities and Investments Board ( SIB ) , published a report that acknowledged the defects in the regulatory regime set up by the 1986 Financial Services Act . |
| 16 | The Southern Africa Centre for Ivory Marketing ( SACIM ) , set up by the four countries , plans a range of measures to exclude poached ivory from the trade , including marking legally obtained ivory with a hologram , bar code and serial number . |
| 17 | A special committee was set up by the Supreme Council to register deserters in order to try to ensure their legal protection . |
| 18 | A ZANLA terrorist had risen out of the bushes with a Kalashnikov while Mike had been involved in an ambush on the Limpopo river which had been set up by the Selous Scouts , the counterinsurgency tracking teams of the Rhodesian army . |
| 19 | He accepted the ‘ desire to remain neutral ’ , interpreted as ‘ the reluctance of one or other state to participate in military-political blocs set up by the imperialist powers ’ as a ‘ favourable phenomenon ’ . |
| 20 | A scheme set up by the Benevolent Fund gave him the chance to learn to fly . |
| 21 | From July 1993 , only scientists will be allowed to enter the park , which is Russia 's contribution to a network of Arctic reserves set up by the international treaty signed at Rovaniemi in Finland in 1989 . |
| 22 | A new organization , the World Industry Council for the Environment ( WICE ) , has been set up by the International Chamber of Commerce ( ICC ) to lobby on environmental issues for business interests . |
| 23 | ’ Police Governments ’ refers to the Western interpretation of the strict governments set up by the Soviet Union in the countries in Eastern Europe within its sphere of interest . |
| 24 | As these prices fluctuated , for example after the end of the Korean war boom , there was widespread unrest — often in resistance to well-meant price stabilisation funds set up by the colonial power — and out of this unrest arose movements which were to become nationalist parties and national liberation struggles . |
| 25 | In its Report , presented in 1977 to Parliament , the working party set up by the Labour Government to develop further the idea of a Co-operative Development Agency , and broadly representative of the whole of the Co-operative Movement , declared of the three attempted rescues : |
| 26 | The last time there was an inquiry into activities which may involve cruelty to wild animals was the Scott Henderson Inquiry set up by the Labour Government in 1949 . |
| 27 | Now the company needs an additional £1 million , which its backers the British Technology Group and Prutec , the venture capital fund set up by the Prudential Assurance company , say they will give — but only at the expense of an ambitious programme of research . |
| 28 | The National Working Party was set up by the federal government in 1988 to encourage the fair and accurate portrayal of women in the media . |
| 29 | A NEW unit is to be set up by the Multiple Sclerosis Society which will devote its time to research into MS , a disease of the nervous system . |
| 30 | A committee of experts has been set up by the Russian Ministry of Culture to look into the problem of such articles within its borders . |