Example sentences of "of [noun] [be] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The higher rate of payment was set at more than twice the previous fee for night visits . |
| 2 | A COUPLE who suffered a catalogue of tragedies are set for a second honeymoon in the Austrian mountains . |
| 3 | The objective of all the Departments within the Faculty of Humanities is to set before students the example of the highest standards of performance , to teach them to think for themselves , to develop their individual abilities , and to express their ideas cogently and objectively . |
| 4 | Traditionally , and with good reason , large amounts of text are set in a serifed face ( that 's one with the little tick marks at the ends of the letters ) and headings are set in a typeface that does n't have them ; a sans serif face . |
| 5 | Each night during a 6-month working season , 40,000–60,000 km ( about 30,000–45,000 miles ) of drift-net is set in the North Pacific Ocean - enough to encircle the planet and cross the Pacific for a second time . |
| 6 | At the same time ten battalions of Territorials were set to work building a new broad-gauge railway to Revigny . |
| 7 | Usually a number of variables are set at predefined levels and the resulting values of one or more ‘ response ’ variables observed ; this would be the situation in an industrial experiment to study the variation in yield of some product resulting from changing levels of temperature , amount of catalyst , process time , and so on . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Petals of blood is set in post-colonial Kenya . |
| 10 | Hours of work are set for certain occupations ( e.g. 40 hours a week ) and overtime may or may not be an option . |
| 11 | The current level of contributions is set at whatever level is necessary to pay for the current number and level of pension payments . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A different kind of limitation is set by the third condition and it is this which we will look at now . |
| 14 | The initial velocity of Ca 2+ flux in the absence of calmodulin was set at 100% . |
| 15 | Another evidently believed that The Merchant of Venice was set in greater Los Angeles . |
| 16 | ‘ Our product and service standards are geared to what the customer requires , not set in concrete , ’ says ‘ The standard of service is set by the guest . |
| 17 | The abortive attack on Cuba at the Bay of Pigs was set in train by the Eisenhower administration and implemented by Kennedy in 1961 without Congressional approval . |
| 18 | Individual limits on emissions of pollutants are set for the 29 coal and oil-fired power stations , and operating conditions and standards are laid out . |
| 19 | In December 1986 the permissible concentration of alcohol was set at zero for the first two years of driving . |
| 20 | With awareness of what is wrong , the corrective forces of democracy are set in motion . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The seal for an uncompromising war of attrition was set in the opening two minutes , when Spurs midfielder David Howells sent David Hillier tumbling and Ray Parlour , Arsenal 's best player , was denied an obvious penalty when Dean Austin tripped him . |
| 23 | On the north side of the house the royal coat of arms is set into the classical pediment |
| 24 | As at April 1985 the guideline figure for damages for pain and suffering and loss of amenities in an average case of tetraplegia was set at £75,000 . |
| 25 | These are known as tap bills and the rate of discount is set by the Treasury . |
| 26 | The grimmer tone of government was set by the new head of the Third Section , P. A. Shuvalov : typical of the ministerial changes which took place was the replacement of A. V. Golovnin , the liberally minded Minister of Education , by the notoriously reactionary Dmitrii Tolstoy . |
| 27 | If the economically active population of Europe is set at about one third of the total ( very conservative ! ) , this means about 110 million people . |
| 28 | Usually , the limit of indemnity is set at £10,000 . |
| 29 | The level of significance was set at p<0.05 . |
| 30 | A reduction in the current level of operation was set for 14 other sites in West Germany , three in South Korea , two in Spain , and one each in Bermuda , Canada , Italy and Japan . |