Example sentences of "[was/were] set at " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , on November 26th 1676 , six constables , four beadles and several others were set at the chapel doors in order to arrest Baxter . |
| 2 | The right-hand combination wheels were set at one-three-seven . |
| 3 | The fees were set at £6 for the Junior Department and £10 for the Senior ; and there was to be no age differentiation in future . |
| 4 | The latter were set at 90 dollars , or £pound18 a month for able seamen and firemen . |
| 5 | The numbering limits on this were set at 32767 which might , at first glance seem an impressive number . |
| 6 | The point is frequently made that if bus fares were set at a reasonable level , buses would be used more often and public safety would be greater . |
| 7 | Kronweiser 's suspicions were set at rest , and he had gone back to the States . |
| 8 | Er that the fires were set at about the time that the erm er that the armoured began breaching the walls of the compound . |
| 9 | H. This stands for historic pricing and indicates that unless there has been an intervening revaluation investors may deal at the prices quoted in the newspaper on that day ( which were set at the closing levels of the previous day ) . |
| 10 | Towers were set at intervals and there was a terrace and deep moat . |
| 11 | If the reversion level were set at , it should be evident that the median voter would vote for any level of the output between and an output just below ( e.g. ) in preference to . |
| 12 | Times being hard , annual subscriptions were set at five bob . |
| 13 | Bail was set at £100,000 each on condition that the defendants surrender their passports , do not discuss the case with a list of potential witnesses , and notify police of any change of address . |
| 14 | The haddock quota for 1990 was set at 36,280 tonnes compared with 54,400 tonnes this year . |
| 15 | In 1948 the exemption was set at $600 a person ; in 1990 it was $2,050 . |
| 16 | The upper age limit for entrants was set at 25 , the lower limit we did n't set . |
| 17 | Bail was set at a remarkable $300m , one of the highest on record . |
| 18 | By contrast , the chances of a major nuclear accident resulting in 100 fatal cancers was set at one in a million . |
| 19 | Do the pages of ticks mean that Fred is a genius or that the work was set at too low a standard ? |
| 20 | It could not be taken along with poor relief , and those with criminal records were excluded ; it was only available at seventy , not sixty ; and it was set at a very mean level , a mere five shillings , below the bare minimum which Seebohm Rowntree calculated was then needed for subsistence . |
| 21 | Thus an ivory statue of Athena Alea from the famous sanctuary at Tegea in the Greek Peloponnese was set at the entrance to his Forum , while a tusk of the Calydonian boar — no doubt correctly labelled — passed into the emperor 's bone collection . |
| 22 | Their first gig was set at the Manchester Ritz , supporting the hyped Blue Rondo A La Turk on October 4th 1982 . |
| 23 | Presumably under Babylonian influence , the life-span of time of the long dominion was set at 12,000 years , the number twelve corresponding to the twelve signs of the zodiac . |
| 24 | Partly because of Treasury pressure to limit the overall cost of the scheme and partly due to ageist assumptions concerning the needs of older people , the National Insurance pension was set at a level of bare subsistence rather than adequate maintenance . |
| 25 | The game , against Nottingham Forest , was arranged the previous October when the player was guaranteed £350 , although the target was set at £500 . |
| 26 | This action level was set at 400 Bq m&sup-3 , and was calculated to correspond to a lifetime risk of 2 per cent from dying of lung cancer . |
| 27 | The budget for its first year was set at F66 million and at F100 million for the next 12 months . |
| 28 | The reform was intended to affect all farms and estates of more than 180 hectares ( 450 acres ) but in Pomerania — the Polish Corridor — the soil was so poor that the lower limit was set at 400 hectares ( 1,000 acres ) . |
| 29 | In 1935 the maximum production for Champagne was set at 50 hectolitres per hectare which could be annually modified by a special commission up or down to suit the specific conditions of the harvest . |
| 30 | By 1970 the official limit , not for the first time , was set at no less than 12,000 kilograms , a fair bit up on the I935 maximum of 7,500 kilograms , while the average yield topped I3,800 kilograms per hectare and , after setting the official limit at I3,000 kilograms in 1973 , a law was passed the following year placing an absolute ceiling of 13,000 kilograms per hectare on all AOC Champagne vineyards , beyond which the so-called maximum could not be stretched . |