Example sentences of "been set [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The IPCC had been set up under United Nations auspices following the November 1988 world climate conference [ see p. 36784 ] and was due to meet again in August 1990 in Stockholm .
2 This is only to be expected , since the Brasserie has been set up along similar lines to L'Auberge ( i.e. it has the same staff ) .
3 Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone .
4 Q. My tank has been set up for five months now , and I do not seem to be able to achieve a good green algae growth .
5 A helpline has been set up for anxious parents .
6 Individual project boards have been set up for each area of market testing .
7 A telephone hotline , manned twenty four hours a day , has been set up for former pupils of a school where the head has been suspended and a governor arrested by police .
8 Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose .
9 A Working Party has already been set up for this purpose and will have met by the time this issue of ‘ Contact ’ is published and mailed to registered Members of Convocation .
10 This new board has been set up with equal representation from CGLI and BTEC to validate and examine courses for the Certificate of Pre-vocational Education ( CPVE ) .
11 A democratic , parliamentary system of government has been set up with free elections at least once every five years .
12 On our review model the tremolo has been set up with three springs instead of Stevie 's five , and the baseplate is kicked up way too high from the face of the body .
13 The new sanctuary has been set up on dry prairie land south of Lac Leman .
14 Job shops have been set up on both sites , manned by trained staff .
15 Twenty phone lines have been set up in Aberconwy council 's offices to give advice to victims .
16 Duty rotas of guardians , who may be called upon at short notice , have been set up in many areas for this purpose .
17 Illegal arms and bomb factories have been set up in many parts of northern India to fuel the conflicts .
18 Similar associations have been set up in other counties , and already national competitions are staged .
19 A joint government and opposition commission had been set up in late September with the aim of preventing a repeat of the first-round chaos ; however , two opposition parties withdrew from the commission on Oct. 11 .
20 Can we be assured that those regional representatives will reflect the political majority in those regions and will not simply be Government nominees , as we have seen in so many quangos and regional bodies that have been set up in recent years ?
21 Firms that have employed women in this way are , for example , the American concerns , the maquiladoras , that have been set up in northern Mexico near the US border .
22 Prior to 1974 these various activities took place in an uncoordinated manner , but , since then , budget committees have been set up in both houses .
23 Thus Communist parties were functioning in the major Latin American countries by 1923 , and had been set up in most others by the end of the decade .
24 Special police units have been set up in some areas , usually but not always staffed by women police officers .
25 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 .
26 Clearly , in order to save some money , the carousel has been set up in downtown Oslo , about ten kilometres away .
27 A new international organisation , the Forest Stewardship Council ( FSC ) , has been set up by environmental groups with the aim of setting worldwide standards for good forest management .
28 Merton is the second of two major ventures in the recruiting business which have been set up by entrepreneurial Michael Silverman .
29 The Fondation Amazonie has been set up by Belgian film maker Jean-Pierre Dutilleux , formerly among the leading lights of pop singer Sting 's Rainforest Foundation .
30 Two new bodies had been set up by presidential decree in September .
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