Example sentences of "[noun prp] was set [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The standard spending assessment for all services in Derbyshire was set at 17 per cent . |
| 2 | Another evidently believed that The Merchant of Venice was set in greater Los Angeles . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The point is that the experts were convinced Leakey was wrong when they could not possibly have known this to be the case In his rollicking ‘ Steady-state cosmology revisited ’ , Sir Fred Hoyle recounts what occurred when a paper submitted by his fellow astrophysicist Sir Hermann Bondi was set before that august body , the Royal Astronomical Society . |
| 5 | Our ETR back at Deenethorpe was set at 1420 hours ’ . |