Example sentences of "[was/were] set at the " 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 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 ) .
3 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 .
4 Their first gig was set at the Manchester Ritz , supporting the hyped Blue Rondo A La Turk on October 4th 1982 .
5 Naturally straight , black hair was set at the crown on small curlers then gelled into two different shapes .
6 Brazilian diamonds were used to define the main bands , a fine Indian diamond was set at the middle , a Ceylonese sapphire appeared above the globe and over all was set a cross of pink diamonds .
7 If it is an even number , then was in fact set two periods earlier and was set at the close of the previous period .
8 If t is odd , then was set at the end of the previous period and was set two periods earlier .
9 The limit between nodular hyperplasia of endocrine ( argyrophil ) cells and carcinoid tumours was set at the size of 0.5 mm according to the classification of Solcia et al .
10 ( The upper limit of normal for each measure was set at the 95th centile ) .
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