Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] set [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all of them limits to possible action were set by economic , social , political or military necessities which were in the main the legacy of the past . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The aircraft was set on automatic pilot , leaving Vologsky little more than a passenger for the time being . |
| 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 | The prices of the operations from fillings to complicated bridge work were set by independent experts so dentists would receive a fixed income set by the Doctors ' and Dentists Review Body . |
| 7 | Times being hard , annual subscriptions were set at five bob . |
| 8 | The scene was set for Labour to lose ( more than for Thatcher to win ) the election of May 1979 . |
| 9 | By the late 1970s , therefore , the entire scene was set for radical reform : the main ingredients were technological backwardness , bureaucratic stagnation and the failure of all partial attempts to tinker with the system . |
| 10 | And with Quine apparently attracted to Miss Novak , the scene was set for some off-screen highlights . |
| 11 | At 2pm that day , in the Vauxhall district of Birmingham , the scene was set for this drama . |
| 12 | A cliff path walk affords views of Burgh Island , to which Agatha Christie escaped to write in a cliff top gazebo — Evil Under the Sun was set on this 26 acre private island . |
| 13 | The standard spending assessment for all services in Derbyshire was set at 17 per cent . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Having come across no obvious Selina lookalike among the ladies , I found myself completing an editorial stress quiz , delete where inapplicable , in which your nicotine and alcohol consumption was set against various stress-donating hardships you might or might not be falling foul of . |
| 16 | The maximum customs tariff on imports was set at 50 per cent and the minimum at 10 per cent . |
| 17 | What emerged , therefore , was the ‘ Medium-Term Financial Strategy ’ in which annually decreasing targets were set for monetary growth . |
| 18 | Given that the minimum levels of pupil competence were set by each school district in cognisance of local circumstances , a question was raised concerning whether students who failed to reach the agreed standards could recover damages for their failure to learn , if they were able to demonstrate teacher negligence . |
| 19 | The right-hand combination wheels were set at one-three-seven . |
| 20 | The upper age limit for entrants was set at 25 , the lower limit we did n't set . |
| 21 | Another evidently believed that The Merchant of Venice was set in greater Los Angeles . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 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 | Complexion : High definition Liquid Foundation in Perfect Ivory and a touch of Erace concealer in Ivory was set with Creme Puff in Translucent . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |