Example sentences of "had [be] set [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The six-county state of Northern Ireland had been set up under the Government of Ireland Act , 1920 ) . |
| 2 | A provisional executive committee had been set up under the chairmanship of Franiszek Kaminski . |
| 3 | The tribunal , which had been set up under the 1981 Algiers Accord , had yet to determine the exact sum of compensation to be paid . |
| 4 | Renamo , which had been set up with the support of the white minority government in Rhodesia and which after Zimbabwean independence received substantial South African assistance , was opposed to the Marxist regime imposed by the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique ( Frelimo ) . |
| 5 | The show had been set up for the little jockey but maybe , at some time in the future , Mrs Butler would be interested . |
| 6 | In fact , outside the Europe of the Six very little had been achieved and very little interest had been displayed in integration and cooperation beyond the all-European organisations that had been set up at the end of the previous decade . |
| 7 | Three makeshift stalls had been set up at the entrance to a shopping mall . |
| 8 | Even afterwards at Four Winds , where a marquee had been set up on the lawn , and the guests mingled , Merrill still saw the affair as a disjointed series of impressions . |
| 9 | The present writer was co-ordinator of the UUUC ‘ Advice and Relief Centres ’ of which several hundred had been set up across the country . |
| 10 | They linked this with a national rent rebate scheme , rationalizing the variety of local schemes that had been set up over the previous decade , to offset the costs to the poorer tenants . |
| 11 | This pattern carried on one which already characterised the silk mills that had been set up following the success of the Derby mill . |
| 12 | Her father bought them a drink and ordered lunch and they wheeled Jennifer 's chair up to one of the small tables that had been set up outside the marquee in the sunshine . |
| 13 | On his arrival , he had been satisfied to see the defences that had been set up around the hospital , and had every intention of congratulating those responsible . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was just like Ireland to have a disastrous afternoon against Wales when we had been set up by the bookies as firm favourites . |
| 16 | GLEB had been set up by the GLC in 1983 to provide venture capital to start up enterprises and provide jobs in the London area . |
| 17 | A ZANLA terrorist had risen out of the bushes with a Kalashnikov while Mike had been involved in an ambush on the Limpopo river which had been set up by the Selous Scouts , the counterinsurgency tracking teams of the Rhodesian army . |
| 18 | These emphases were repeated by Konstantin Chernenko , particularly in his address to the commission that had been set up by the Central Committee to prepare a revised programme . |
| 19 | CW said that we had only just discovered how inefficiently the network had been set up by the previous company , and that the speed would be substantially improved by the network upgrade . |
| 20 | Fontaine had made known his intention to give evidence to the new National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation , which had been set up by the government on April 25 to investigate human right violations under the Pinochet regime . |
| 21 | These talks , boycotted or disrupted by the employers and unions since their initiation , had been set up by the government on Sept. 20 following widespread unrest in May and July [ see pp. 37450 ; 37607 ] . |
| 22 | The barbecue had been set up by the lake , whither Matthew and Sara were conducted by the white-jacketed foreign butler . |
| 23 | The practical effect of this is illustrated by the case of Strange ( SW ) Ltd v Mann [ 1965 ] 1 WLR 629 where at the time of entering the contract the business was exclusively a credit-betting business and it was accepted by all parties that the validity of the covenant fell to be tested without regard to the fact that subsequently betting shops became legal and that a betting shop had been set up by the plaintiff . |
| 24 | They had been set up in the Heumensoord Camp for several days , but today an air of excitement pervaded the squadron . |
| 25 | A Christmas tree had been set up in the corridor with fairy lights that winked on and off . |
| 26 | LGCM had been set up in the 1970s ; it rented a room in St Botolph 's , Aldgate , a church well-known for work with single homeless people in London . |
| 27 | The United Unionist Action Council , which had been set up in the early summer of 1976 , had a slow and troubled start . |
| 28 | On 11 September the German Standortkommandantur , which had been set up in the Piazza Garibaldi to administer the city of Parma , issued a series of orders , one of which stated that it was forbidden for civilians to have guns and that looting would be punishable by death . |
| 29 | The KANU policy review failed to address demands for wide-ranging political reform , although it had been set up after the rioting in July 1990 in the wake of a growing campaign by pro-democracy supporters [ p. 37603 ] . |
| 30 | The oval dining table stood before the rear window , but it held in the middle a model of the house on a low plinth as if it were a museum exhibit , and the eight high-backed dining chairs had been set back against the walls . |