Example sentences of "had be set " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bendcrete competition structure used at the British Open at Olympia last year had been set up in all its over-hanging glory next to the existing facilities . |
| 2 | A government spokesman said 59 post offices , 53 other buildings , 75 vehicles and a rubber factory had been set ablaze since security forces stopped searches , ambushes and raids against the People 's Liberation Front ( JVP ) last Wednesday . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A £2,000,000 target had been set for the Battle of Britain Wings Appeal in the full knowledge that our sister charity , the RAF Benevolent Fund was launching its £20,000,000 ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal , and that the Association would be offering as much support as possible to that . |
| 5 | Wolfenden was commissioned not by the state but by the Central Council of Physical Recreation ( CCPR ) , which had been set up in 1935 as a co-ordinating body for the many voluntary associations involved in the running of sport . |
| 6 | They had been set up in the Heumensoord Camp for several days , but today an air of excitement pervaded the squadron . |
| 7 | In July 1984 the Princess had agreed to become patron of a small medical research charity called Birthright , which had been set up initially to try and minimize the dangers of pregnancy and childbirth . |
| 8 | A Christmas tree had been set up in the corridor with fairy lights that winked on and off . |
| 9 | Monica rang lawyers at the Vicariate of Solidarity , which had been set up by the Catholic Church in 1975 and was by now Chile 's leading human rights organization . |
| 10 | The group maintains that by the time Mr Outhwaite agreed to take on the US risks , the dangers of asbestosis were already known : a Lloyd 's working party had been set up in 1980 to look at the issue . |
| 11 | A trap had been set , but they had forgotten to camouflage it . |
| 12 | Firemen needed police support as they tackled a car in the driveway which had been set on fire . |
| 13 | By 1988 age-limits had been set for top posts and the way they were filled had become more democratic . |
| 14 | The CPRS had been set up by Ted Heath to advise on long-term policy issues . |
| 15 | A special Cabinet committee under the chairmanship of Margaret Thatcher had been set up to review my proposals and effectively to decide whether they would become Government policy . |
| 16 | Meetings had been set up . |
| 17 | In all probability it was a combination of several factors , not least the suspected flaw in her stamina which made her vulnerable once that fierce early pace had been set by St Denis . |
| 18 | The tone had been set from the earliest days of the BBC . |
| 19 | Among other stories , it was rumoured that a gallows had been set up in Düsseldorf with a picture of the Führer hanging from it . |
| 20 | It was a perfect site because the building , for which a quarter of a million pounds ( £8,250,000 ) had been set aside from the Twentieth Century Fund , was meant to be ‘ a challenge to the Church of England ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A place had been set for one and I was given bread and a bowl of goulash . ’ |
| 23 | All along its length rotundas about ten feet high had been set up . |
| 24 | The central section of the courtyard of the Alte post had been set with a three-sided arrangement of trestle tables for a party of thirty and now they began to arrive . |
| 25 | This was because a slogan — which he himself coined — had been set to music and became a hit tune of the period : ‘ I-Scream , you scream . |
| 26 | ‘ Ken most of the folk hereabouts ? ’ demanded the customer , uncorking the bottle with his teeth and filling the grubby glass that had been set in front of him . |
| 27 | No date had been set for pesticides to meet the MACs in Severn Trent . |
| 28 | This repair and replacement necessitated breaking away the concrete into which the track had been set . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In the sunken garden , orange snapdragons and pink asters , raised in the sheltered nursery beds , had been set out in lurid masses . |