Example sentences of "[been] set [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Through the development of disused buildings on the refinery site and a £500,000 loan fund , 170 small businesses have been set up in the area , employing 1,200 local people . |
| 32 | Responding to other free-trade zones that have been set up in the region , Bolivia , Colombia , Venezuela , Peru and Ecuador will progressively reduce tariffs and other regional trade barriers . |
| 33 | The first ‘ tent cities ’ for a few thousand people have been set up in the plain near Zakho . |
| 34 | A computermail database network has even been set up around the country for fans to debate the killer of Laura Palmer , the lovely blonde homecoming queen whose body mysteriously washes onto a river bank near a lumbermill in the fictional Pacific northwest town of Twin Peaks . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 ] . |
| 37 | It was just like Ireland to have a disastrous afternoon against Wales when we had been set up by the bookies as firm favourites . |
| 38 | A number of working groups have been set up by the Council to look at these matters , but the truth is that the whole curriculum approach is rendered horrendously difficult by the subject structure and by the inevitable fact that the various subject working party reports are coming on stream over a period of at least four to five years . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | The barbecue had been set up by the lake , whither Matthew and Sara were conducted by the white-jacketed foreign butler . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | 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 ] . |
| 43 | The board have been set up by the Countryside Commission , West and East Sussex Country Councils and the 11 borough and district councils in the area . |
| 44 | The Charge Code must already have been set up by the LIFESPAN Manager . |
| 45 | The Charge Code must already have been set up by the LIFESPAN Manager . |
| 46 | A SPECIAL hit-squad has been set up by the IRA to target top loyalists , according to the RUC . |
| 47 | And the Glass Pig has been set up by the Midsummer Charity Trust , which runs seven residential homes and farms in Herefordshire . |
| 48 | Derek Casey , the Council 's director of national services , said : ‘ A six-man emergency committee has since been set up by the ABA and major changes and re-structuring , which we think are absolutely essential for the future of amateur boxing , are now being made . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | A working group on ‘ Active Membership ’ has been set up by the section to explore ways of increasing campaigning by national members . |
| 51 | An appeal has been set up among the village 's 2,800 residents to help all the victims ' families . |
| 52 | A chain of self-help groups has already been set up throughout the country by concerned parents . |
| 53 | This information can be accessed by students and staff from their desktop computers ; in addition a number of special , easy to use ‘ Information Points ’ have been set up throughout the campus [ for example in the library , the Cottrell Foyer and the Pathfoot Resource Centre ] . |
| 54 | I 've worked in a number of centres where the fire alarm has been set off by the heat from our lights . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | All that had been achieved was a more punitive regime , while the cause of sex reform had been set back by the whitewashing of women and the doctrine of the uncleanness of men . |
| 57 | The geostationary communications satellites placed high above the Pacific to link the banking and trading centres of South-East Asia , Japan and Australasia with those of North America preside over a ‘ window ’ of the planetary territory of geometrically fixed size — rather as if a cone , a dunce 's cap , the height of which is equivalent to the altitude necessary for a satellite 's geostationary orbit , had been set down over the ocean . |
| 58 | However , when the regulations came to be made , the government maintained that the policy which had been set out during the passage of the Bill through the House was unworkable . |
| 59 | The recommendations had been set out in the Commission 's interim report published in May . |
| 60 | It surely can not be thought coincidental that these precise geometric patterns have been set out in the Wiltshire countryside . |