Example sentences of "set [adv] [adv] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the original organizations set up mainly by ‘ outsiders ’ — Mining Awareness ( Galway ) and Mining Awareness ( Mayo ) — were not in fact anti-mining groups , but wished only to initiate public debate . |
| 2 | The luxurious cream decor is set off beautifully by the patterned curtains . |
| 3 | The links are set up temporarily by the DBMS at run time following a user request for this information . |
| 4 | The command verb , LIFESPAN_PMR , should have been set up previously by the System Manager . |
| 5 | A particularly interesting new development is a project for the training of musicians , chiefly for parishes , which is being set up jointly by Anglia Polytechnic and Chelmsford Cathedral . |
| 6 | The Global Environmental Facility has been set up jointly by the World Bank , and the UN Environment and Development Programmes . |
| 7 | People with learning disabilities who need residential care in Bassetlaw can go to one of four staffed homes which were set up partly by the health authority and are run by the Mencap Homes Foundation . |
| 8 | The parallel National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma had been set up principally by exiled members of the National League for Democracy , the main opposition party which had won a landslide victory in the May 1990 elections but had subsequently been prevented by the SLORC from taking power . |
| 9 | So , it has been held that decisions of the City Panel on Takeovers and Mergers , which was set up neither by statute nor contract but simply by informal agreement , are subject to judicial review ; so are decisions of the Advertising Standards Authority and of the Code of Practice Committee of the British Pharmaceutical Industry . |
| 10 | During the year , the new Revolutionary Government of the Whitsun Islands confiscated the property of the local branch that had been set up there by A. Layout Pty . |
| 11 | Various marketing opportunities have been set up recently by ACE including Christmas Cards and a holiday scheme . |
| 12 | The system can be set up experimentally by measuring the time taken to attain each speed level and minimising this time by adjusting the previous speed level ; the time taken to reach stepping rate f2 is measured and the value off , adjusted until this time is a minimum , then continue by adjusting f1 while measuring the time to reach f3 etc . |
| 13 | The Commission 's thinking about a wider European organisation was set out yesterday by its vice-president , Mr Frans Andriessen , in a report about the proposed European economic space with Efta in which capital , people , trade , and services would move freely . |
| 14 | Labour 's intentions to shift the focus of campaigning were succinctly set out yesterday by the shadow Scottish secretary , Tom Clarke , after a speech which surprised his supporters and confounded his critics by its professional , tough delivery . |
| 15 | Akram then edged just short of slip , and clearly a stiff examination was being set out there by Malcolm , to whom the first comeback wicket had been ‘ like a drink of water to a thirsty man ’ . |
| 16 | His plan to promote national reconciliation was set back further by his pardoning on Dec. 29 by presidential decree of the military leaders of the " dirty war " of the 1970s . |
| 17 | In obtaining their most precious substances from remote environments the Danubian peasants were only following a pattern set long previously by Upper Palaeolithic man . |
| 18 | Lord Hesketh , the chief whip in the Lords , also went for flower power in the form of a pink carnation set off nicely by a red bow tie and cream shirt . |
| 19 | Eventually , a central department set up jointly by the refugee committees helped to alleviate major problems like the treatment of refugees as Nazis , refugees and Nazis being kept in close proximity , inadequate accommodation , lack of adequate medical care and the separation of families . |
| 20 | Only five years before , an inter-departmental committee set up jointly by the Home Office and the Lord Chancellor 's Department , under the chairmanship of a High Court Judge , had rejected the solution of permanent Crown Courts to handle the much increased workload of criminal cases and to reduce the time spent by defendants awaiting trial . |