Example sentences of "[vb past] been set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been set up and she had thought Fernando was so desperate to have her back in his life that he had manipulated the whole thing . |
| 2 | Hannah Dooley knew a bloke in Birmingham who had been set on by a group of small ‘ pod-like ’ creatures while out walking his dog . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | The CPRS had been set up by Ted Heath to advise on long-term policy issues . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Meetings had been set up . |
| 14 | Among other stories , it was rumoured that a gallows had been set up in Düsseldorf with a picture of the Führer hanging from it . |
| 15 | All along its length rotundas about ten feet high had been set up . |
| 16 | The National Land Fund had been set up in 1946 as the nation 's war memorial . |
| 17 | The Fleming committee had been set up in response to pressure from the independent schools themselves : their heads and governors had been worried by the drop in enrolments and income in the 1930s , and many hoped to share in the growing national investment that would follow the War . |
| 18 | Originally , books of this type were commissioned only by kings and the highest nobility , but by the fifteenth century secular workshops had been set up , particularly in Paris and other cities in France and the Low Countries , so as to provide such books for a wider public . |
| 19 | In 1970 , an all-party Committee of the Council had been set up to examine the future of the tramway ; rising costs had once again called into question the future of winter tramway operations . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ( The six-county state of Northern Ireland had been set up under the Government of Ireland Act , 1920 ) . |
| 22 | To summarise , at this point in the analysis the database had been set up listing all activities considered systemically desirable to achieve the transformation defined by the root definition , identified by description and by code . |
| 23 | Her plea was of course that a trust had been set up in her favour . |
| 24 | The building of the bypass and a grant of land meant ground was now available for allotments and a new committee had been set up . |
| 25 | The difference between a DAT machine working within specification and a master recording on a PCM 1630 are infinitely smaller than the differences occasioned by how well the microphones had been set up . ’ |
| 26 | I thought that I had been set up . |
| 27 | This body had been set up by Bismarck in 1886 , when it was estimated that if the Ostflucht continued , 3 million Germans would have left their homes in the Prussian east by the start of the twentieth century . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The King was already there , with half the court and the Mamelukes ; and a tent , shivering in the wind , had been set up but was not so far in use . |
| 30 | The show had been set up for the little jockey but maybe , at some time in the future , Mrs Butler would be interested . |