Example sentences of "[noun] 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 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 .
3 Times being hard , annual subscriptions were set at five bob .
4 What emerged , therefore , was the ‘ Medium-Term Financial Strategy ’ in which annually decreasing targets were set for monetary growth .
5 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 .
6 The right-hand combination wheels were set at one-three-seven .
7 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 .
8 Total claims from spending departments were set against expected growth targets in the economy to check their feasibility .
9 Entry then became based on financial rather than medical or social assessment , and in 1983 upper limits were set on supplementary benefit , resulting in a massive increase in the total national bill for supplementary benefits to people in private sector homes — from £105m in 1983 to £500m by 1986 .
10 Limits were set in short by both sides on what they sought to do and how they sought to do it and these limits erm were n't self-evident at the time I can tell you because the American military , the Chiefs of Staff on the Executive Committee that discussed this an and took the decisions , were all in favour of making s air strikes on these bases and possibly er an er an armed intervention and so the military advice here er was er was rather similar to that of McArthur 's , that is turn the , the crisis into er a different kind of crisis , turn it in fact into a war .
11 Limits were set in short by both sides on what they sought to do and how they sought to do it and these limits erm were n't self-evident at the time I can tell you because the American military , the Chiefs of Staff on the Executive Committee that discussed this an and took the decisions , were all in favour of making s air strikes on these bases and possibly er an er an armed intervention and so the military advice here er was er was rather similar to that of McArthur 's , that is turn the , the crisis into er a different kind of crisis , turn it in fact into a war .
12 ( And some of those romances were set in medieval Aquitaine of the troubadours — which certainly constitutes one common interest that drew Pound and Hewlett together . )
13 That has certainly been true of banks since the Basle capital standards were set in 1988 .
14 Destination boxes were set on high stanchions above the ends of the upper deck and had glazed openings in the back , so no deck lights were required .
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