Example sentences of "[noun] [be] set [prep] [num] " in BNC.

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1 Salaries in the U.K. 's public museums and galleries are set by two bodies .
2 Belle Epoque is set in 1931 at a turning point as the monarchy gave way to the republic .
3 In February 1990 the government adopted a budget with a projected deficit of 11,442 million francs CFA ; revenue was set at 98,143 million francs CFA , and expenditure at 109,585 million francs CFA .
4 Total budget revenue was set at 50,500,000 million rupiah , an increase of 18 per cent over the 1990-91 budget ( US$1.00=RPs1,897.44 as at Jan. 14 , 1991 ) .
5 In 1976 the figure was set at 20,000 , and it was expected in that year that the figure would not exceed 15,000 in the following and subsequent years .
6 Initially , all cells in all RAM chips are set to 0 .
7 Times being hard , annual subscriptions were set at five bob .
8 In France such a ceiling is set at 40 LUs in the Zone de Montagne ( 267 sheep ) and 30 LUs ( 200 sheep ) in the Zone de Piedmont .
9 The Government-imposed safety limit for annual average exposure to Radon in a home is set at 200 becquerels per cubic metre of air .
10 The standard spending assessment for all services in Derbyshire was set at 17 per cent .
11 The budget deficit ceiling was set at 950,100 million roubles ( US$1=0.5461 roubles at the official rate as at July 13 , 1992 ) , representing 12-14 per cent of the projected 1992 gross national product ( for projected deficit for the first quarter see p. 38923 ) .
12 The maximum customs tariff on imports was set at 50 per cent and the minimum at 10 per cent .
13 In the examples above the durations are set to zero to inhibit the facilities .
14 Taxes are high but not crippling ( income tax in six ranges increases from 12 per cent to 50 per cent , and corporation tax is set at 40 per cent of the profits but mitigated by many concessions ) .
15 The 200 year old stone farmhouse is set in eight acres of unspoilt countryside near to the village of St. Ferme .
16 The right-hand combination wheels were set at one-three-seven .
17 When the interrupt system is on , and any device flag register is set to 1 then the computer finishes the current instruction , switches the interrupt system off , stores the contents of the program counter in the left-most twelve bits of store location 0 , and continues to execute instructions starting at location 1 .
18 Thus if bit i is set to one , condition i is true and subroutine i is to be entered .
19 The upper age limit for entrants was set at 25 , the lower limit we did n't set .
20 Initially the TDR was set at 8 per cent in the mid-1960s and raised to 10 per cent in 1969 The rate was reviewed in 1972 but not changed .
21 Based on current values , up to 1,000,000 forints ' worth of land and 200,000 forints ' worth of other property ( houses , hotels , factories , etc. ) would be compensated in full , with compensation above those limits being awarded against real values on a sliding scale ; the upper limit for awards per claimant was set at 5,000,000 forints ( US$1.00=76.6553 forints as at April 29 , 1991 ) .
22 accepted that if the subsequent appeal to the House of Lords were set to one side , there might be grounds for a relisting on the basis that the Court of Appeal had departed from well-established practice in resolving but one of the grounds of appeal , leaving outstanding points of appeal on which submissions had been made .
23 If the parameter count is set to 54 ( ASC " 6 " ) it may be omitted and a window without bars or brackets will be defined .
24 Mr Faulks said : ‘ Inside the police found a complete confidence trickster 's set with 26 different charge cards either in the name of Garawand or in the name of Yousefi and ten cheque books , four of which related to the same account at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Darlington . ’
25 With effect from April 15 the initial base rate was set at 550 new kwanzas to one US dollar — a devaluation of 69 per cent .
26 The basic bank lending rate was set at 36 per cent per month .
27 Initially , x was set at 3 per cent .
28 The reform was intended to affect all farms and estates of more than 180 hectares ( 450 acres ) but in Pomerania — the Polish Corridor — the soil was so poor that the lower limit was set at 400 hectares ( 1,000 acres ) .
29 The ransom was set at 4 million écus once again , but this time the French were given four months to raise three-quarters of it , which was clearly impossible .
30 It 's because subscriptions for new members are set at fifteen hundred pounds to make sure no one joins .
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