Example sentences of "be set at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For 1990–1 , the Total Standard Spending has been set at 4.9 billion , of which the Standard Spending on education is 2.2 billion ( 45% ) . |
| 2 | There are good reasons — nothing to do with prudishness — why the age of consent has been set at 16 , and the risk of cancer only adds to the dangers of Aids and unwanted pregnancies . |
| 3 | So y your limit has now been set at five ? |
| 4 | In 1985 there were 791 cataloguers , two administrators and 169 photographers ; in order to carry out the current drive the number of employees has been set at 4,463 . |
| 5 | However , it is apparently the practice that if the prisoner inquires in such a case whether the tariff has been set at 20 years , he will be told if it has been set at that period , but not if it has not . |
| 6 | The quota for this year has been set at 120,000 tonnes ( compared with 235,000 in 1989 ) , with a proviso that only 25,000 tonnes can be caught before July , at which point the report of a new study may trigger further cuts . |
| 7 | The risk-free rate of return has been set at 9 per cent and two security returns ( 14 and 21 per cent ) have been indicated on the line representing the relationship between expected return and sensitivity . |
| 8 | Even then Wilson refused to sign the budget bill until congress had passed enabling legislation which provided for a suspension of the minimum school financing requirement ( which , under the terms of a 1988 initiative , had been set at 40 per cent of the state 's general fund ) should the education loan be ruled unconstitutional in court . |
| 9 | ( vi ) If the date for the first review is fixed 17 years after sentence , the prisoner is told that this does not necessarily mean that the period for retribution and deterrence has been set at 20 years . |
| 10 | However , it is apparently the practice that if the prisoner inquires in such a case whether the tariff has been set at 20 years , he will be told if it has been set at that period , but not if it has not . |
| 11 | Whilst the assumption that asset demands are set at such a level so as to minimize ( 4 ) yields models that are both tractable and consistent with observed empirical realities , the justification for quadratic costs in such models is always somewhat ad hoc . |
| 12 | They push very much the deep cut system in the U K. Deep cut system in in America means that the machine goes forward a distance before any supports are set at all erm and then the supports do set roof falls . |
| 13 | It 's because subscriptions for new members are set at fifteen hundred pounds to make sure no one joins . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As yet , the robot has no way of knowing whereabouts its gripper will be , when its joints are set at particular angles . |
| 16 | To begin with , all switches except the inputs are set at random . |
| 17 | The minimum working age must be set at 16 years , and those over this age shall receive fair remuneration , and for a period of two years shall be entitled to vocational training in working hours . |
| 18 | Once the school aims have been stated in general terms , objectives will be set at middle management level within a school and will relate to the achievement of these aims . |
| 19 | Blanket speed limits applied to all vehicles must be set at such a low figure as to ensure reasonable safety with the most badly designed vehicle when it is in the worst acceptable state of maintenance . |
| 20 | The detachable top ring needs to be set at such a pressure as to stay in for the cast but detach on the strike or more accurately the wind-down . |
| 21 | The environmental conditions with which the system is in equilibrium may shift , and only so long as the equilibrium can be set at new and workable positions can the species survive . |
| 22 | To keep within this ceiling it was agreed that the rate of growth of agricultural expenditure should be set at 74 per cent of the rate of growth of Community GNP . |
| 23 | Each of these can be set at 1 , 2 or 3 . |
| 24 | It is possible that the boundary between mastery and non-mastery might be set differently for different educational purposes , but it is much more likely that different purposes will prescribe whether a boundary needs to be set at all . |
| 25 | All these gains in individual freedom , every advance towards putting the consumer first , will be set at terminal risk by Labour 's proposed policies . |
| 26 | Mr Chris Patten , the Environment Secretary , yesterday moved to mitigate the effects of the Inland Revenue revaluation by announcing that the poundage will be set at 34.8 pence in the pound instead of the provisional figure of 36 pence in the pound announced last month . |
| 27 | The trimpot used to set the first stage gain , should be set at maximum resistance and the multi-turn zero offset trimpot to the centre of its range before this check . |
| 28 | New records are expected to be set at next year 's Olympics , where speed skiers will possibly exceed 150mph . |
| 29 | In theory , new commercial catch quotas could be set at next year 's meeting in Tokyo under a " revised management procedure " ( RMP ) , although any such decision might be so hedged around with qualifications as to make it impossible to fulfil . |
| 30 | It contains a fluorescent tube and can be set at different angles and at varying distances from the working surface . |