Example sentences of "[n mass] [be] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The upper limit on the amount of data is set by the database that has to handle it all , rather than by the car code system . |
| 2 | The aircraft was set on automatic pilot , leaving Vologsky little more than a passenger for the time being . |
| 3 | A COUNCIL tax ranging from £297 to £900 is set to be fixed for householders in Fife . |
| 4 | The French minister of industry , Dominique Strauss-Kahn , Thursday announced that the French government has paid SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV the first part of the $466m in research and development aid it agreed to pay over five years — the Italian government is supposed to pay the same amount over the same period : ‘ I have signed with SGS-Thomson a contract for a multi-year development effort in France ; the sums for 1993 , $83m from both sides , have been paid , ’ he said ; a spokeswoman for SGS-Thomson in Paris said she had not yet been able to confirm Strauss-Kahn 's assertion ; the separate recapitalisation , which Brussels recently approved , is still conditional on a firm decision being taken on the Italian side , and would be effected in three payments — $227m split evenly between the two partners and an identical payment three months later ; the third payment of $455m is set to be made in 1995 . |
| 5 | Verily , these people are set upon pushing the noise boat out over the horizon until it arrives … somewhere . |
| 6 | The first byte is set to the least significant byte of the number and the second to the most significant byte . |
| 7 | A sum of £5m is set to be spent on top priority areas in Darlington 's health service such as cutting waiting lists and funding the Patients ' Charter . |
| 8 | As I write , this duck is setting at my feet . |
| 9 | A MAP which cost 27p is set to be sold at auction for up to Pounds 18,000 . |
| 10 | In the later eighteenth century the concept of nobility was subject to an attack that reached surprising verbal violence : the useful bourgeois was set against the useless noble as the pattern of social virtue . |
| 11 | A price of 200 francs CFA per kg. was set for the 1989/90 season , half the previous season 's level . |