The phrase 'interest was set' is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe a situation in which a certain interest rate was established. For example: "The bank had a policy in place and the interest was set at 3% annually."
Each bone fragment that was unearthed, along with every flake of flint and anything else that might even remotely be of interest, was set aside to be taken back to the headquarters to be sorted and tagged.
The recent surge of interest was set in motion in April 2008, when Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm signed a 14-bill package into law, which among other things provided a 40percenttaxax credit or cash rebate for studios on their business tax returns in Michigan.
For semiquantitative analysis, a volume of interest was set to identify the maximum activity within the 18F-FLT or 18F-FDG-positive lesion in cardiac and extra-cardiac thoracic regions.
A segmentation mask, identifying each single nucleus as region of interest was set on the Hoechst image.
After the background staining correction, the optical density was calibrated and the area of interest was set through: hue, 0 30; saturation, 0 255; intensity, 0 230.
A region of interest was set to exclude the area close to the edge of the assay plate where conditions for tracking animals were poor.
The £60bn initial offer price made this the largest foreign takeover of a British company, and public and political interest is set to increase further.
In the majority decision, a compelling state interest is set aside because of a restriction on speech that has not occurred.
To counter noise in measurements, the functions of interest are set to iterate over a period of time.
Guided by the oxidation state image in Figure 3(c) regions of interest were set up on predominantly Cu(I) and Cu II) areas.
