Example sentences of "had be set [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The last day had been set aside for a hunting trip , a full day out in the field , putting into practice , hopefully , all we had learned .
2 An evening had been set aside for a get-together of the Branch 's top 50 clients to promote Special Savings Accounts .
3 It had been set aside for no obvious purpose with a low table and several padded vinyl seats ; they were old and split with yellow foam bulging out , and on the walls were two art-school lithographs bearing optimistic prices .
4 A room had been set aside for the investigation .
5 The smallest of the three rooms had been set aside for the officer in charge ; it had a desk , a couple of chairs , and a telephone which , allegedly , would soon be functional .
6 It was a perfect site because the building , for which a quarter of a million pounds ( £8,250,000 ) had been set aside from the Twentieth Century Fund , was meant to be ‘ a challenge to the Church of England ’ .
7 Six of his retainers were put to death at York on the day of his own execution , together with another eleven rebels , including Roger Clifford and John Mowbray , whose claim to the lordship of Gower had been set aside by the king in 1319 .
8 That record had been set earlier in the same evening when ‘ Bob 's worlds ’ ( Sotheby 's lot 37 , est. $250–350,000 ) , an important crockery picture , had been purchased by a telephone bidder against art adviser Jeffrey Deitch .
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