Example sentences of "[was/were] set at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Naturally straight , black hair was set at the crown on small curlers then gelled into two different shapes .
3 If t is odd , then was set at the end of the previous period and was set two periods earlier .
4 If it is an even number , then was in fact set two periods earlier and was set at the close of the previous period .
5 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 .
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