Example sentences of "[be] set at " in BNC.

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31 He said that capping levels had been set at a devastatingly harsh level and fairness was completely absent from the settlement .
32 ‘ The PSBR for 1993-94 has therefore been set at £50 billion , some 8 per cent of GDP .
33 The rubber takes a grip on the shell and forces it between the rollers , which are set at just the right distance apart so that they crack the shell without damaging the kernel .
34 Budget outlays are set at $174.4 billion , a 5% cut in real terms from 1993 — the seventh consecutive real reduction .
35 Security and cell directory royalties will be $400 to OSF and $80 to USL and global directory are set at $250 and $50 respectively .
36 Expectations are set at an early stage : that the therapist can only offer education and advice , and the client is responsible for assimilating and applying this information .
37 As yet , the robot has no way of knowing whereabouts its gripper will be , when its joints are set at particular angles .
38 To begin with , all switches except the inputs are set at random .
39 If the regression coefficients for estimating the population ‘ at risk ’ of requiring Personal Social Services are set at plus or minus two standard errors , this estimated expenditure need might range from £167 to £3 56 per child aged 5–17 .
40 type which has vertical stems as distinct from italics or oblique which are set at angles .
41 The air quality which results from this strategy depends upon ensuring that the charges are set at precisely the right level for all pollutants .
42 there was general consensus among Scottish drivers that current speed limits are set at about the right level .
43 Whilst the assumption that asset demands are set at such a level so as to minimize ( 4 ) yields models that are both tractable and consistent with observed empirical realities , the justification for quadratic costs in such models is always somewhat ad hoc .
44 In other words , prices are set at the end of every even period ( 0 , 2 , 4 , and so on ) to cover the next two periods .
45 They push very much the deep cut system in the U K. Deep cut system in in America means that the machine goes forward a distance before any supports are set at all erm and then the supports do set roof falls .
46 Equation ( 6.17 ) implies that dividends are a constant proportion of share wealth ( P0 ) and are set at exactly the level necessary to enable that share wealth to deliver the same dividend in all future periods .
47 Bonuses are determined by the Management Development and Remuneration Committee for the achievement of budgeted profit targets and personal objectives which are set at the beginning of the financial year .
48 It 's because subscriptions for new members are set at fifteen hundred pounds to make sure no one joins .
49 It is essential , for instance , that environmental standards for industry are set at a European level so that companies do not compete by seeking out those locations with inadequate environmental protection .
50 Usually a number of variables are set at predefined levels and the resulting values of one or more ‘ response ’ variables observed ; this would be the situation in an industrial experiment to study the variation in yield of some product resulting from changing levels of temperature , amount of catalyst , process time , and so on .
51 Some further exercises , which include non-cyclical time-paths , are set at the end of the chapter .
52 The trimpot used to set the first stage gain , should be set at maximum resistance and the multi-turn zero offset trimpot to the centre of its range before this check .
53 It was safe to assume , he said , that no more than a dozen MPs knew whether they should be reaching for the champagne or the shotgun when the Government announced last month that the business rate was to be set at 36p in the pound last month .
54 Mr Chris Patten , the Environment Secretary , yesterday moved to mitigate the effects of the Inland Revenue revaluation by announcing that the poundage will be set at 34.8 pence in the pound instead of the provisional figure of 36 pence in the pound announced last month .
55 From the beginning of 1991 , prices for everything except sugar are meant to be set at world market rates , whatever they may be .
56 Indeed the political theme for the day should be set at the morning 's press conferences , and local candidates and VIPs fully briefed and able to talk about or answer questions on that topic wherever they may be .
57 Although a plan oblique projection can be set at any angle to the horizontal , the other common form is 60° , 30° .
58 All these gains in individual freedom , every advance towards putting the consumer first , will be set at terminal risk by Labour 's proposed policies .
59 Once the school aims have been stated in general terms , objectives will be set at middle management level within a school and will relate to the achievement of these aims .
60 The environmental conditions with which the system is in equilibrium may shift , and only so long as the equilibrium can be set at new and workable positions can the species survive .
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