Example sentences of "set by the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Home Secretary 's remarks on PR , made to party workers in Stroud , are the most strident so far used by a senior Conservative against electoral reform , which is the condition set by the Liberal Democrats for their support in a hung Parliament . |
| 2 | ( Champagne 's a tradition set by the early pioneers for those who dare to cross the Timor Sea . ) |
| 3 | The pattern was set by the first fanatics , destined to become the heroes of later generations . |
| 4 | For equilibrium , where is the rate of change of the nominal money supply set by the monetary authorities . |
| 5 | The wages of farm workers are set by the Agricultural Wages Board ( for England and Wales ) . |
| 6 | Intertel Communications Inc , currently legally a Canadian company , says from its Teleport Denver Inc base in Colorado that it plans to swear allegiance to the flag and become a naturalised American : it will reincorporate in the US to meet a condition set by the Federal Communications Commission , which gave plenty of ammunition to the Europeans that say that the US market is not as open as Uncle Sam likes to think , by insisting that only American companies could hold earth satellite station common carrier licences — there is no comparable restriction on US companies applying for licences in the UK . |
| 7 | The commitment to a particular body of training : accountants , lawyers , doctors have to sit examinations set by the professional bodies . |
| 8 | There are detailed provisions which , following the precedent set by the 1985 Companies Act in the same context , attribute voting rights held by one person to another . |
| 9 | The 1893 Act allowed institutions a Parliamentary grant per pupil , but only if the institution/asylum met the standards set by the periodic visits of Her Majesty 's Inspector , so in order to meet these standards and obtain their grants , schools had to improve on the conditions in which the pupils were taught . |
| 10 | But despite the company 's own long-running antipollution programme the final lever to a clean River Tees looks like being what the company calls the ‘ very tough targets ’ set by the National Rivers Authority . |
| 11 | Although difficult to meet , the consent limits set by the National Rivers Authority are consistent with ICI ; s plans to cut discharges by half by 1995 but call into question the viability of some Teesside plants . |
| 12 | Unless Iraq 's dictator sounds the retreat in the next few days , he will soon be unable to meet the January 15th deadline set by the United Nations for the complete removal of his army from Kuwait . |
| 13 | So , as the deadline set by the United Nations Security Council passed , new sanctions came into effect . |
| 14 | Long , graduated tails , in which all but the outermost feathers are elongated , generate the same lift as normal tails ( because maximum span is set by the outermost feathers and so does not change ) but substantially more drag , as elongation adds considerably to tail area . |
| 15 | The rules of the game , then , far from being set by society so as to ensure fair play for all , seemed to be set by the local authorities . |
| 16 | Today North West industry meets all the Mercury quality standard and load discharge limits set by the regulatory authorities and the UK fulfils all the requirements of the EC mercury directive . |
| 17 | Other stock markets around the world followed the optimisic trend set by the big exchanges , though in many of them the trading was relatively light . |