Example sentences of "[adj] was set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After discussion this was set at £2 a head for the weekend . |
| 2 | This was set at 1.2 per cent of the GNP of the EC by 1992 , with intermediate ceilings prior to 1992 . |
| 3 | when the word has been overlapped with all members of the filter set , take those weak overlap indices with a frequency greater than a certain threshold ( this was set to 1 for the example below ) and append them to the strong overlap list . |
| 4 | Middlesbrough Bears 41 Slangerup 47 THIS was set to be one of the most exciting challenges for the opening of a new season at Middlesbrough 's Cleveland Park last night , but wet and miserable conditions turned it into something of a farce . |
| 5 | This was set as the minimum for contributions to the first loan , in 1522 , men of less substance being let on until , perhaps , the yield had proved disappointing . |
| 6 | All this was set in just about one acre . |
| 7 | This was set against the teaching and learning which the Inspectorate had observed in their school sample . |
| 8 | This was set against a background of rocks , sand , barbed wire and empty ammunition boxes , with large amounts of fake snow sprayed over everything . |
| 9 | The prelude to this was set by another psychoanalyst called Otto Rank one of Freud 's er early followers who had published a book called the Myth of the Birth of the Hero and in this book what Rank did was to trawl through world folklore and literature , from myths of heroes , and of course there are a lot of those books , and dozens and dozens of them and what he does in the book is he distils all these dozens and dozens of myths and he finds that there 's a common pattern emerges and it 's , it 's pretty stereotypical actually and the common pattern is the hero is born of royal or divine parents , the hero for some reason or other that loses his parents or is cast out by them or is er exposed in some way , erm the hero is often threatened by some outside force and then rescued by er humble people . |
| 10 | An influx of bright youngtalent was set to work under a dashing editor , Falklands hero Max Hastings , who occasionally took an independent , anti-government line . |
| 11 | The first was largely devoted to a wedding , the second was set in Vietnam , and the third mostly back in America . |
| 12 | The proposed budget for 1991 was set at US$345,500,000 . |
| 13 | The old lady died and within weeks they 'd decided to get married ; they started furnishing the rooms over the shop and all was set for a wedding . ’ |
| 14 | All was set for Innocent 's arbitration . |
| 15 | The last day of November 1845 was set by the Board of Trade as the day on which all new railway plans had to be lodged if they were to stand any hope of a parliamentary hearing . |
| 16 | Trial for the 16 was set for 11 , 18 , 21 and 22 June . |
| 17 | A target of £3.5 million was set for the councils . |
| 18 | When the Highlanders failed to accept William and Mary in place of James VII of Scotland ( James II of England ) , the last day of 1691 was set as an ultimatum by William III . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Middlesbrough 's original poll tax for 1992–93 was set at £353 and Langbaurgh 's was £376 . |
| 21 | The haddock quota for 1990 was set at 36,280 tonnes compared with 54,400 tonnes this year . |
| 22 | In response to higher than expected government revenue in 1989 , as a result of an increase in the value of exports , especially oil , projected revenue for 1990 was set at naira 47,657million ( US$1.00=N 7.6627 as at Jan. 8 , 1990 ) , of which N 38,628 million was expected to come from crude oil export ( based on a estimated price of US$16 per barrel ) and N 9,029 million from non-oil sources . |
| 23 | It was revealed that bilateral trade had increased by 3 per cent in 1989 over the previous year , and the aggregate target figure for bilateral trade in 1990 was set at $6,200 million . |
| 24 | At a meeting of the National Assembly on Dec. 30 , 1990 , the budget for 1990 was set at 245,392 million francs CFA in revenue and 216,021 million francs CFA in expenditure , in an effort to continue with financial adjustment . |
| 25 | Capital expenditure in 1990 was set at F$122,600,000 , of which 40 per cent would be spent on developing the infrastructure . |