Example sentences of "[noun pl] had be set " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except to say that women 's entry into education generally was conceded reluctantly and belatedly a hundred or so years ago , long after the rules had been established and the parameters had been set . |
| 2 | It was the decisive end of an imagination whose bounds had been set wider and wider , the doom of the crystal palaces of the rails , the ferrovitreous stables of the champing iron horses . |
| 3 | The difference between a DAT machine working within specification and a master recording on a PCM 1630 are infinitely smaller than the differences occasioned by how well the microphones had been set up . ’ |
| 4 | A hundred yards away two great mangonels had been set up . |
| 5 | He found that 600 cartons had been set aside ready for him . |
| 6 | BASF , the German company which makes vinclozolin , said that there was no cause for concern about foods already consumed or in storage , as wide safety margins had been set . |
| 7 | The idea itself went back at least to the 1850s when such boards had been set up in shipbuilding on the Wear and for the silk trade in Macclesfield . |
| 8 | Originally , books of this type were commissioned only by kings and the highest nobility , but by the fifteenth century secular workshops had been set up , particularly in Paris and other cities in France and the Low Countries , so as to provide such books for a wider public . |
| 9 | Announcing that special committees had been set up to make recommendations to the next meeting in Oman in April , Mr Baghli added : ‘ We see that the American administration is serious in imposing the tax and the European countries are uniting their ranks to impose this tax to threaten our basic source of living . ’ |
| 10 | Once the topics had been set out in an order which would make sense to the recipients ( in this case of a postal questionnaire ) then the questions could be worked out . |
| 11 | What Ken , as technically-minded as ever , did n't notice was that all the clocks had been set to go off in the middle of the night — which , needless to say , they all did . |
| 12 | Childless women declaimed prayers to the Virgin in Latin while tears rolled down their faces ; and the parents of idiot children danced with them in the market place , swearing that their little brains had been set all to rights . |
| 13 | Situated on a comer opposite the church , one could survey much of Sasbach from its little courtyard where three tables had been set out under three chestnut trees . |
| 14 | Among other stories , it was rumoured that a gallows had been set up in Düsseldorf with a picture of the Führer hanging from it . |
| 15 | Kenneth Baker , the Party Chairman , made particular political capital out of Conservative gains in the ‘ flagship ’ Thatcherite London boroughs of Wandsworth and Westminster where exceptionally low poll tax levels had been set . |
| 16 | Once high levels had been set , nobles who chose not to turn rents into cash were acting to the detriment of their own best interests . |
| 17 | He said that capping levels had been set at a devastatingly harsh level and fairness was completely absent from the settlement . |
| 18 | Two new bodies had been set up by presidential decree in September . |
| 19 | He said that special bodies had been set up in 20 enterprises and organizations to deal with " irregularities " and " speculation " in the supply of these goods . |
| 20 | Kazakhstan 's President Nazarbayev , however , pointed out in an interview after the close of the summit that no executive or supervisory bodies had been set up to monitor the implementation of the agreements reached there . |
| 21 | Three makeshift stalls had been set up at the entrance to a shopping mall . |
| 22 | The rumours were reinforced in mid-December when Roh suggested that , as " a basic framework on inter-Korean relations had been set " , then " summit talks will be held earlier than had been expected " . |
| 23 | The smallest of the three rooms had been set aside for the officer in charge ; it had a desk , a couple of chairs , and a telephone which , allegedly , would soon be functional . |
| 24 | There was curling , ornate moulding around the tops of the windows and coats of arms had been set into the metal work of the huge wrought-iron gate . |
| 25 | The Asian youth told officers he had not been involved in the alleged attack , but that he himself and his friends had been set upon by a gang . |
| 26 | Friends of the Earth welcomed the licences in principle but said the limits had been set far too high , condemning " vast tracts of countryside to damage by acid rain for decades to come " . |
| 27 | Their press network , built up from 1917 on , had fluctuated in extent with the fortunes of the Civil War , but at its end nearly sixty papers in various national languages had been set up . |
| 28 | When she emerged , the wall-lights had been dimmed and the polished table by the french windows had been set for two . |
| 29 | By 1988 age-limits had been set for top posts and the way they were filled had become more democratic . |
| 30 | When it had been examined and test-flown by the manufacturer 's pilot prior to the revalidation of the microlight 's Permit to Fly both wingtip adjusters had been set at the neutral position with no apparent need for any change . |