Example sentences of "been set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | New records had been set with almost every triumph Chapman had ever engineered , but none equalled those of Arsenal 's 1931 Championship . |
| 3 | The farmer sent him to keep a flock of larks off a field that had just been set with winter corn : ‘ It was late November or early December ; and when it got dark about half past four time I made my way back to the farm thinking my job was done . |
| 4 | The handsome parquet flooring had been rewaxed , the girandoles around the walls had been set with pure wax candles purchased from an ecclesiastical suppliers in Hounslow , elaborate arrangements of flowers graced gilded stands all around the walls . |
| 5 | Her place had been set with a wreath of holly , adorned with a place card on which Richard had laboriously written ‘ Miss Abbitt ’ in scarlet ink with a liberal spattering of blots . |
| 6 | So we are well on the way to achieving the recruitment targets that have been set with a view to making the decision as effective as possible . |
| 7 | The historical precedent for the summit had been set with the UN Conference on Human Environment , held in Stockholm , Sweden , in June 1972 [ see pp. 25476-79 ] . |
| 8 | Origins of the summit The historical precedent for the summit had been set with the UN Conference on Human Environment , held in Stockholm , Sweden , in June 1972 . |
| 9 | Easter had been set as the tentative date to ‘ roll-in ’ the first aircraft and everything was looking on course for this . |
| 10 | The Council of Ministers announced on March 7 that June 12 had been set as the date for multiparty local and provincial elections ( to the assemblées populaires communales and the assemblées populaires de wilayas ) , postponed from December 1989 and then again from March 1990 [ see p. 37218 ] to allow more time for newly-created political parties to prepare their campaigns . |
| 11 | GCC Interior Ministers met in Kuwait on Nov. 21 and 22 , and Finance Ministers met on Nov. 22 but apparently failed to make progress on proposals for a customs union — a step towards creation of a common market by the year 2000 which had been set as an objective earlier in the year [ see p. 38985 ] . |
| 12 | He is convinced the necessary seven member states whichever they may be can still meet the criteria for economic convergence which has been set as the minimum to permit a single currency in a majority of member states . |
| 13 | Pile the melon balls into the centre of the mousse if they have not been set into the mixture . |
| 14 | As you go in by the west end of the nave of the parish church , two black memorial plaques have been set into little side chapels on the north and south walls . |
| 15 | This should have satisfied the students , but it was too little , too late ; a course of action had been set into motion which was difficult to reverse . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Rule 4 A hard copy of the module version exists if the requirement for hard copying prior to module deletion has been set via the MINTEG keyword in the LIFESPAN configuration file . |
| 18 | And no time limit has been set for the congress , simply because no one knows how long it will last and how it will end . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | An amnesty for convicts , including 2,000 political prisoners , has been set for Tuesday . |
| 21 | The next round-table meeting has been set for December 18 . |
| 22 | By 1988 age-limits had been set for top posts and the way they were filled had become more democratic . |
| 23 | ‘ The standards for cab design have been set for one person , so we foresee problems with having two seats , ’ says Mr Boswell . |
| 24 | A place had been set for one and I was given bread and a bowl of goulash . ’ |
| 25 | No date had been set for pesticides to meet the MACs in Severn Trent . |
| 26 | She stooped down to drink where a stone had been set for a firm landing beside a foot-wide pool . |
| 27 | In the sitting room-cum-bedroom of their Darlinghurst first floor flat , the table had already been set for dinner . |
| 28 | His hearing has been set for March 15 . |
| 29 | No date has yet been set for England to tour Pakistan — or for them to return here . |
| 30 | No firm date has yet been set for the launch of the Trust and it has yet to be decided exactly how it will operate . |