Example sentences of "set at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set at right angles to one side of the fireplace was a two-seat wooden settle , and at the other side a much larger leather couch . |
| 2 | They were eight-sided crystals set at regular intervals in the walls and ceiling , and they shed a rather unpleasant glow that did n't so much illuminate as outline the darkness . |
| 3 | However , the window size is currently set at four words , and at this distance the difference between the two algorithms is very slight . |
| 4 | The rudder set at 45 degrees to the vane would make the float cut across the wind or rather from one side of the bath tub to the other . |
| 5 | Either because they fail in any case to meet service requirements ( often set at six months ) or , where there are no service requirements because any " temporary " employee is explicitly excluded , seasonal workers are not covered by company sick pay schemes designed to pay more than statutory benefits . |
| 6 | The haddock quota for 1990 was set at 36,280 tonnes compared with 54,400 tonnes this year . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Our ETR back at Deenethorpe was set at 1420 hours ’ . |
| 10 | The Government-imposed safety limit for annual average exposure to Radon in a home is set at 200 becquerels per cubic metre of air . |
| 11 | It is a wheel of vanes set at right angles to the sails , so that if the wind is not striking the sails , it must strike the fantail and turn the sails into the wind again . |
| 12 | A wall of storage units will make provision for most of the paraphernalia you own and might either incorporate a bar and a desk flap to let down , or a permanent table set at right angles to shelves and cupboards for work , games , sewing and hobbies . |
| 13 | Presumably under Babylonian influence , the life-span of time of the long dominion was set at 12,000 years , the number twelve corresponding to the twelve signs of the zodiac . |
| 14 | The minimum length of such a re-entry programme should be set at 144 hours throughout the UK . |
| 15 | ( 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The latter were set at 90 dollars , or £pound18 a month for able seamen and firemen . |
| 18 | I had four cameras lying around me on the seabed , all set at different distances . ’ |
| 19 | A number of passes are then made with the saw set at different heights — it is well worth-while doing a dummy run on some scrap material of similar size . |
| 20 | For example , if the figure was a line diagram of a room with four windows set at different heights , the programme would ask me whether a line of sight from the far corner of the room would enable me to see a particular point outside the window nearest to me , a point that shifted on the screen at speed . |
| 21 | It contains a fluorescent tube and can be set at different angles and at varying distances from the working surface . |
| 22 | There were many temples , set at different angles , not orientated like the Greek ones . |
| 23 | Based on current values , up to 1,000,000 forints ' worth of land and 200,000 forints ' worth of other property ( houses , hotels , factories , etc. ) would be compensated in full , with compensation above those limits being awarded against real values on a sliding scale ; the upper limit for awards per claimant was set at 5,000,000 forints ( US$1.00=76.6553 forints as at April 29 , 1991 ) . |
| 24 | The war establishment was initially set at 29 officers and 572 other ranks . |
| 25 | As yet , the robot has no way of knowing whereabouts its gripper will be , when its joints are set at particular angles . |
| 26 | In 1935 the maximum production for Champagne was set at 50 hectolitres per hectare which could be annually modified by a special commission up or down to suit the specific conditions of the harvest . |
| 27 | This is often set at 21 days after the posting of the offer document , which coincides with the first closing date of the offer . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The reform was intended to affect all farms and estates of more than 180 hectares ( 450 acres ) but in Pomerania — the Polish Corridor — the soil was so poor that the lower limit was set at 400 hectares ( 1,000 acres ) . |
| 30 | The pavements were narrow , granite slabs set at ankle-wrenching angles , so that in the Sabbath quiet it was pleasanter to walk in the road . |