Example sentences of "[noun sg] was set by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trend for suburban dwelling was set by the wealthy , and planned suburbs appeared in order to meet their needs in the 1860s . |
| 2 | John Matcham 's name was set by the printer and the ‘ woollcomber ’ pulled the press . |
| 3 | The pattern was set by the first fanatics , destined to become the heroes of later generations . |
| 4 | The example was set by the Despensers , especially the younger , who flourished in the king 's continued favour and looked to their own profit while they extended his . |
| 5 | The lower age limit was set by the National Institute for Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke and the Alzheimer 's Disease and Related Disorders Association ( NINCDS-ADRDA ) and the upper age set by convention for presenile disease . |
| 6 | The grimmer tone of government was set by the new head of the Third Section , P. A. Shuvalov : typical of the ministerial changes which took place was the replacement of A. V. Golovnin , the liberally minded Minister of Education , by the notoriously reactionary Dmitrii Tolstoy . |
| 7 | Large areas of Catalonia became dependent on a single specialized export — wine and cheap brandy were sent in such quantities Europe that the world price of brandy was set by the market of Reus . |
| 8 | Because that level was set by the government , the licence fee was too often seen as a political issue and a source of political pressure . |
| 9 | Erm on the basis that er we were , when we were setting the , the targets , the time was set by the work study personnel erm and then the operator was able to obtain a trial run on the time given er and if at the end of the work , he was satisfied that he had made the target bonus , or near enough , or if he was satisfied that , given a little extra opportunity to go back onto that job should it come back again in the near future , then he would , he would see clearly that he could make at least fifty percent er which was the target bonus , and probably more . |
| 10 | The distinctive tone of the old Conservative party was set by the land : even those who did not belong to great landed families still believed in some romantic notion of the spiritual strength of England 's green and pleasant land . |