Example sentences of "had been set [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Local businesses responded generously to an appeal from School , and a generous grant was received from a fund which had been set up by leading industrialists to help Independent Schools to provide buildings and equipment for Scientific teaching and research . |
| 4 | One of the most controversial areas of GLC activity ( and this was picked up by the Tories in a party political broadcast as early as 1984 ) , was the Gay Teenage Group which had been set up by gay young men in 1976 . |
| 5 | Two new bodies had been set up by presidential decree in September . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A E Hook & Co , which had been set up in 1922 and ran offices in Sandown , Ryde and Newport , was earning a respectable fee income of around £600,000 but had decided that the island did not offer prospects for further material growth . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This was based on the assumption that once supranational institutions had been set up in one economic sector , interest groups would look to that political level for the realisation of their demands , and that in time the groups would begin to appreciate the value to themselves of integration . |
| 12 | This type of committee was modelled on the Select Committee on Nationalized Industries which had been set up in 1955 because it was felt that Parliament could not adequately control the range of corporations it had created . |
| 13 | Notably , this legalized republican police forces , but the central government retained control over the Interior Ministry troops used to put down serious unrest , and over the OMON ( " Special Purpose Militia Detachments " , also known as the " Black Berets " ) , the urban riot police which had been set up in 1987 and had gained international notoriety as a result of January 's armed clampdown in the Baltic republics [ see p. 37944-45 and above ] . |
| 14 | Year of foundation : 1961 , replacing the Organization for European Economic Co-operation ( OEEC ) which had been set up in 1948 in connection with the Marshall Plan . |
| 15 | The National Land Fund had been set up in 1946 as the nation 's war memorial . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This can be seen in Truman 's decision on the future of the joint body , the Combined Chiefs of Staff , which had been set up in 1942 to co-ordinate Anglo-American strategy against Germany and Japan . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne ( CIAM ) had been set up in 1928 . |
| 20 | The Labour government elected in 1984 was the first to recognize the scale of Maori discontent , and extended the powers of the Waitangi Tribunal which had been set up in 1975 to act as an arbiter of Maori grievances . |
| 21 | He took over an existing but derelict blast furnace at Coalbrookdale ( q.v. ) which had been set up in 1638 , and in 1709 he discovered the method of smelting iron with coke instead of charcoal . |
| 22 | In the sunken garden , orange snapdragons and pink asters , raised in the sheltered nursery beds , had been set out in lurid masses . |