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

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1 And people may be wondering why they 're going up by so much , when after all , the S S A , and that is the figure that we 're restricted to set by the government , is only going up by three point three percent , and half of this is for care in the community money , so that , all that care in the community money remember , pound for pound in that it 's added to our budget , is knocked off the budget of Social Security , that is not , not any extra money spent on people .
2 This postulates that people have in mind a target income they would like to receive — set by the life style of their neighbours or those just above them on the social ladder .
3 Parents and teachers usually judge children 's behaviour by whether it fits in with the usual standards — moral , emotional , social and intellectual — set by the society in which they live .
4 This self-reliance gives them a competitive edge when the base rate ( set by the Bank of England ) , is high , while when it is low , societies can switch to these wholesale funds to cut costs .
5 If they wish to cancel any of the rooms allocated they must do so within the time limit set by the hotel or they will be billed for them .
6 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 .
7 In these circumstances it is not possible to summarize a person 's opportunity set by the measure of expected lifetime income .
8 It would complete the task set by the revolution of 1905–7 .
9 The return on assets works out at 1.8 per cent compared with a 3.75 per cent target set by the Government .
10 If more than half the parents are fairly well off and eager to expand facilities in their school , they can set levels for school charges which are beyond the means of the poorer parents ( fee levels are set by the government ) .
11 However , only about one-quarter of total expenditure will be raised through the poll tax — the rest will come from a centrally-determined needs grant and a uniform business rate set by the government after a revaluation of non-domestic property .
12 The UEL is set by the government each year .
13 The high targets set by the government have meant that colonies have often been badly located , and inadequately supported .
14 It appears , although this is not quite clear from the MoS , that they are YTS trainees , whose pay levels are set by the government .
15 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 .
16 Economists said the growth of money in the economy , known as M0 , grew sharply in March and remains well above the monitoring range set by the Government .
17 objectives set by the government and by the industry itself ;
18 The uniform poundage will be set by the government in April 1990 at a level to ensure that , taking account of inflation , the total amount that the business sector pays nationally in 1990–91 figure paid in 1989–90 .
19 In Scotland during the past year we have witnessed the distasteful spectacle of Dounreay scouring the planet and touting for business as the nuclear prostitute of the world , seeking to sign as many contracts as possible to dispose of other countries ' spent nuclear fuel while the clock ticks away towards the 1994 deadline set by the Government when funding for the 250 MW prototype fast reactor will cease .
20 over the figure set by the Government will mean at least a 9 per cent .
21 It was reported that 200,000 of these had registered officially as addicts by the July 23 deadline set by the government at the start of its new anti-drugs campaign begun in early January 1989 .
22 Opposition protests were voiced in the days before commencement of the 30-day period of voter registration , set by the government for June 8 although it had still not set a date for the elections themselves .
23 Against the timescales set by the government , that contracts for all services be in place by April 1991 , it proved a stern test of general management .
24 For the moment we have to charge the fee , we can not waive it , but we have to charge it , but we have to charge it at the level that is set by the government and which is subject to review and er and er Mr has , has drawn our attention to has recently been increased .
25 Starting at page A two , paragraph five and nine indicate that there is presently a gap of so of some eleven point four million pounds , between the overall spending limits of three hundred and eighty-one point four million pounds , agreed by the Policy Committee last November , and the provisional cutting limits set by the Government of three hundred and seventy million pounds .
26 I think also , the people of Wiltshire will be glad that it us here setting the budget , and therefore the precept and their council tax next year , and something that people will be looking at is their council tax bills , and noting that they go up by six point three percent , or are proposed to , with the provisional assets aim which is set by the government .
27 Mr Flook was confident that the authority could meet the March 31 deadline set by the Government for getting the wait for in-patient or day surgery down to a maximum of two years .
28 Specific policy objectives are set by the government , and put into action by the bank , although the Bank has an important role as adviser to the government on monetary policy matters .
29 According to Malthus , its fiercest critic , it depressed the wages paid by farmers by compensating wherever they fell below a scale set by the bread price and the number of the labourer 's children in relation to his wage ( Marshall 1968 ) .
30 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 .
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