Example sentences of "[been] set [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new high-profile lobbying organization has been set up with a view to rasing environmental issues in the European Commission . |
| 2 | Thankfully we 've been spared the agony of SRV 's favourite .013 to .058 strings ; the reissue comes with a much more manageable .010 to .046 set , and it 's been set up with an action considerably lower than the man 's own and at the 12th fret . |
| 3 | There is evidence that the present east gable is a replacement , made very soon , for another , likewise with a battle , which seems then to have been set up on a base in the sanctuary , its centre akroterion also . |
| 4 | By contrast , those who were involved in the new machinery of public credit which had been set up as a result of the financial revolution were doing remarkably well , through their investments in institutions such as the Bank of England and the New East India Company , and from the interest they received on loans to the government . |
| 5 | A PROJECT for budding photographers has been set up at a Newton Aycliffe school . |
| 6 | The steam boiler had been set up in a shed at the back of the offworlder 's house . |
| 7 | A FEARLESS new organisation has been set up in a bid to finally solve the world 's greatest murder mystery the assassination in Dallas of American president John F. Kennedy . |
| 8 | Since the article was published , a number of schemes have been set up in an attempt to improve the quality of child minding . |
| 9 | It is interpretation carried out within an existing legal framework : where a trust has actually been set up by a settlor , and it is a matter for the jurist to interpret or elucidate details . |
| 10 | The Environmental Association of Tanzania ( ENATA ) has been set up by a group of professionals with skills in tackling environmental problems . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The blinking was a reflex which could equally well have been set off by a puff of wind or a flash of light . |
| 13 | The second task was to stand on some planks of wood which had been set out in a hexagon . |
| 14 | Low comfortable chairs had been set out in a square ; too comfortable for-some , because there was a distinct buzz of snoring from the other side of a rack of trade journals , broken only by the bats ' wing rustle of folding and refolding newspaper . |
| 15 | Our policy , both for nuclear and conventional defence , is clear , has been set out in a number of documents and is properly costed . |
| 16 | Once the topics had been set out in an order which would make sense to the recipients ( in this case of a postal questionnaire ) then the questions could be worked out . |