Example sentences of "had [been] set [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Signs for the cloakrooms and toilets were already in place , and two posts and a rope had been set at the top of the stairs to keep visitors out of the private apartments . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By the end of October , no date had been set for the election . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was made clear in a further policy statement that in those cases where the tariff was 20 years or more the reference to the local review committee would be made after 17 years had been served , though a warning was given that this did not imply that any particular period had been set for the prisoner 's tariff . |
| 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 | Inside it looked a bit old-fashioned , as if the style had been set by the Festival of Britain and never changed . |
| 10 | The deadline of Dec. 15 had been set by the UN after Cristiani had tried to delay a purge of senior military figures [ see p. 39137 ] . |