Example sentences of "be set by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this time the fastest anyone had yet covered the English mile distance had been set by the professional runner , William Richards , at 4 minutes 17¼ seconds in Manchester on 19 August 1865 . |
| 2 | The pattern for these accusations had been set by the young Liberal Charles Masterman in The Heart of the Empire ( 1902 ) where he had thundered out his warning of inevitable decline as the result of the ‘ perpetual lowering in the vitality of the Imperial Race in the great cities of the Kingdom through over-crowding in room and in area ’ : What was never entirely clear was whether it was merely a physical deterioration that was eating away at the ‘ Imperial Race ’ , or if a moral decay was not also in evidence . |
| 3 | The Council water charges are set by the Regional Council each year in order to cover the costs of providing a water service to domestic consumers , in this regard separate accounts must be maintained by the Council in respect of water costs and income from the Council water charges . |
| 4 | The wages of farm workers are set by the Agricultural Wages Board ( for England and Wales ) . |
| 5 | Pop culture thus works through an amalgam of attitude , inspiration , intuition and detail ( for nobody is as obsessive as the true pop fan , whose obsession is rarely given the respect it deserves ) ; crucially , it works best not in public , where the terms of discourse are set by the dominant culture , but in private space . |
| 6 | Notice that the curved arrow instruction comes first , that is , knit two rows with the main carriage , therefore there is no necessity to have a curved arrow on the third row , the third row of holes will be set by the two knit rows of the fourth row symbol . |
| 7 | Recommended US price is $1,000 for a single licence , going down to $600 per user for 100 concurrent users on the network : UK prices will be set by the various sales channels . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The term ‘ the inner city ’ may tell us much more about the manner in which an agenda of social problems is set by the combined and unequal influences of a variety of interest groups than about the political economy of cities but its very reproduction in a set of discourses about ‘ the urban ’ guarantees it a status of its own . |
| 10 | A different kind of limitation is set by the third condition and it is this which we will look at now . |
| 11 | The tone is set by the continual use of the pose with head held high , back slightly arched , arms in closed 4th or a stretch fully upwards in 5th sur les pointes for Kitri or on demi-pointes for Basil . |
| 12 | The standard charge is set by the local council , and can be zero , one half , equal to , one and a half or twice the cost of the personal community charge in the area . |
| 13 | The rateable value is set by the local valuation office , which is a branch of the Inland Revenue . |
| 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 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 . |
| 16 | The pattern was set by the first fanatics , destined to become the heroes of later generations . |
| 17 | The trend for suburban dwelling was set by the wealthy , and planned suburbs appeared in order to meet their needs in the 1860s . |
| 18 | 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 . |