Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [was/were] set [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The budget deficit was set at 10,300 million roubles , to provide for wage rises and social protection , for which 17,600 million roubles were reserved . |
| 2 | Total budget revenue was set at 50,500,000 million rupiah , an increase of 18 per cent over the 1990-91 budget ( US$1.00=RPs1,897.44 as at Jan. 14 , 1991 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Oil revenue was expected to be 257,000 million francs CFA , with other revenue ( excluding loans ) set at 181,000 million francs CFA ; the investment budget was set at 102,000 million francs CFA . |
| 5 | Investment expenditure was set at 96,000 million francs CFA and operational expenses estimated at 39,502 million francs CFA . |
| 6 | The budget deficit ceiling was set at 950,100 million roubles ( US$1=0.5461 roubles at the official rate as at July 13 , 1992 ) , representing 12-14 per cent of the projected 1992 gross national product ( for projected deficit for the first quarter see p. 38923 ) . |
| 7 | The point is that the experts were convinced Leakey was wrong when they could not possibly have known this to be the case In his rollicking ‘ Steady-state cosmology revisited ’ , Sir Fred Hoyle recounts what occurred when a paper submitted by his fellow astrophysicist Sir Hermann Bondi was set before that august body , the Royal Astronomical Society . |
| 8 | Under the SMP , development spending was set at 104,000 million ringgits ( US$1.00=2.7804 ringgit as at July 8 , 1991 ) , up from 61,850 million ringgits under the fifth plan . |
| 9 | The inflation target was set at 30 per cent . |
| 10 | With effect from April 15 the initial base rate was set at 550 new kwanzas to one US dollar — a devaluation of 69 per cent . |
| 11 | The prices of the operations from fillings to complicated bridge work were set by independent experts so dentists would receive a fixed income set by the Doctors ' and Dentists Review Body . |
| 12 | Having come across no obvious Selina lookalike among the ladies , I found myself completing an editorial stress quiz , delete where inapplicable , in which your nicotine and alcohol consumption was set against various stress-donating hardships you might or might not be falling foul of . |
| 13 | Given that the minimum levels of pupil competence were set by each school district in cognisance of local circumstances , a question was raised concerning whether students who failed to reach the agreed standards could recover damages for their failure to learn , if they were able to demonstrate teacher negligence . |
| 14 | That has certainly been true of banks since the Basle capital standards were set in 1988 . |
| 15 | The right-hand combination wheels were set at one-three-seven . |
| 16 | The basic bank lending rate was set at 36 per cent per month . |
| 17 | Its most surprising room , covered from ceiling to floor in 17th-century paintings , should be a salon or library ; instead , a dotty stone bathtub was set into one wall at a later date by a lady called Charlotte . |
| 18 | Destination boxes were set on high stanchions above the ends of the upper deck and had glazed openings in the back , so no deck lights were required . |
| 19 | The elephant clock was set to twelve-thirty . |
| 20 | The pulse frequency was set at 1.5 Hz . |