Example sentences of "was [adv] set [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The table was already set for high tea , with ham , bread and butter and a very yellow cake . |
| 2 | The same question was usually set in two versions , one multiple choice and one where the pupil had to supply an answer . |
| 3 | As the maximum extraction of grape juice or must was also set at one litre of juice per one and a half kilograms of grapes , this production limit could also be expressed as 7,500 kilograms per hectare . |
| 4 | The LDDC decided at an early stage that this figure should rise to 30 per cent or so , as a result of a house-building programme that was originally set at 13,000 houses within ten to fifteen years . |
| 5 | It was known from collocation studies ( see Chapter 4 ) that the information from co-occurrence relations is optimised at a distance of four words , so the window size was provisionally set at this distance . |
| 6 | The UBR also represented a change in that the ‘ poundage rate ’ under this scheme was now set by central government and not by the local authority . |
| 7 | The war establishment was initially set at 29 officers and 572 other ranks . |
| 8 | Capra 's film was to be one of the most successful , acclaimed , and important films in the depression period because it was firmly set in contemporary America , but not in an America preoccupied with social problems . |