Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] set [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Murray 's new all-comers ' mark was one of six set on Saturday — along with Olympic champion Maksim Tarasov 's 5.81m pole vault , Jon Edwards 's 17.16m triple jump and Michael Johnson 's incredible 400m in 45.14 , which could have been a world record if he had not eased up .
2 The amateur record of 68 was set in the Monthly Medal of May 1986 when Club member Michael Orris broke the Club and his own previous record of 69 set in October 1983 .
3 The large crowd bore witness to its popularity although the course record of 68 set by Des Ballintine in 1984 was broken on the tough Prehen course .
4 His aggregate was four better than the old 90-hole record of 329 set by Andrew Magee and DA Weibring in the 1991 Las Vegas Invitational .
5 Mansell 's time , using race tyres , outstripped Brazilian Ayrton Senna 's pole time of 1:14.041 set in 1991 on qualifying rubber .
6 Qu Yunxia ran a sensational 1,500 metres of three minutes 50.46 seconds at China 's national games in Beijing today , beating the previous world mark by fully two seconds of 3:52.47 set by Tatiana Kazankina of the Soviet Union 13 years ago .
7 In fact the Governments " minute of appointment " in 1961 set as the Committee 's terms of reference to report on and review the pattern of full-time higher education in Britain " in the light of national needs and resources " .
8 Entrance fees to foreigners with less than two years service on British ships were in 1889 set at £pound20 with the obvious intention of making the cost of membership prohibitive .
9 Their values must , therefore , lie between 128 ( bit-7 set to 1 ) and 191 ( bit-7 and bits 1 to 5 set to 1 ) .
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