Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [be] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This should have satisfied the students , but it was too little , too late ; a course of action had been set into motion which was difficult to reverse . |
| 2 | The stake had been set at a silver thruppence — a thruppence which ( Louisa remembered smiling now ) she had never seen , for the afternoon had ended in disaster . |
| 3 | The session was marked by the frank and abrasive attitude taken by Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk towards the CIS ( whose collapse he apparently regarded as imminent ) and his combative response when Russian President Boris Yeltsin suggested that the legal basis had been set for joint CIS armed forces . |
| 4 | A place had been set for one and I was given bread and a bowl of goulash . ’ |
| 5 | Her place had been set with a wreath of holly , adorned with a place card on which Richard had laboriously written ‘ Miss Abbitt ’ in scarlet ink with a liberal spattering of blots . |
| 6 | The central section of the courtyard of the Alte post had been set with a three-sided arrangement of trestle tables for a party of thirty and now they began to arrive . |
| 7 | This barn owl 's broken wing had been set by a vet who kept it in a cat cage for a week or two so that it could rest . |
| 8 | The Irish tag was redeemed for a small reward and it was only when it arrived back in the Central Fisheries Board office , Dublin , that Sea Angling Officer , Peter Green , discovered that a new distance record had been set for their shark tag scheme . |
| 9 | The previous record had been set by Fiorentina , who went 40 league games without defeat in 1955-56 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The process had been set in motion on March 15 with the handing over of border crossings to units of a newly formed Macedonian army . |
| 12 | Hampshire county councillor Peter Maxwell was at the meeting and he said that the community charge had been set at £237 , which is £33 below the government guideline . |
| 13 | At this time the fastest anyone had yet covered the English mile distance had been set by the professional runner , William Richards , at 4 minutes 17¼ seconds in Manchester on 19 August 1865 . |
| 14 | 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 ] . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A speaker had been set in one of the trees , like some modernistic bird's-nest , and Sara noticed the long snaky trail of the cable connecting it with the hi-fi in the house . |
| 17 | An A$970,000,0000 ( US$748,000,000 ) rescue operation by the state government had been set in motion before the announcement , which followed on from the collapse of the merchant banking section of the State Bank of Victoria in August 1990 [ see p. 37658 ] and that of Western Australia 's Rothwells merchant bank in November 1988 [ see p. 37920 ] . |
| 18 | Inside it looked a bit old-fashioned , as if the style had been set by the Festival of Britain and never changed . |
| 19 | This posed the question : if capitalist equilibrium had been disrupted beyond recall and expanded negative reproduction had been set in motion , how was a new socialist equilibrium to be brought into being ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In all probability it was a combination of several factors , not least the suspected flaw in her stamina which made her vulnerable once that fierce early pace had been set by St Denis . |
| 22 | The big pine table in the middle of the floor had been set for dinner , and on it stood a bottle of cheap wine from the village store . |
| 23 | A combative mood at the congress had been set at the very opening of proceedings when the first speaker in the debate on the agenda , Vladimir Bludov from Magadan in the Far East , had called for the entire politburo to resign . |
| 24 | On this occasion , Anthony d'Offay made one bid of $100,000 but the reserve had been set at a higher level . |
| 25 | In the original presentation to the Majlis on Feb. 20 , the government budget had been set at IR5,596,000 million and revenue at IR4,009,000 million , giving a projected deficit of IR1,587,000 million . |
| 26 | The play had been set in a military hospital in England in 1944 . |
| 27 | Easter had been set as the tentative date to ‘ roll-in ’ the first aircraft and everything was looking on course for this . |
| 28 | The Olympic qualifying standard had been set at 64.50m so he went seriously into steroid use for the first time and threw a Commonwealth record of 67.32 within a few months . |
| 29 | But not one of them had made her feel as if a candle had been set to kindling within her . |
| 30 | No date had been set for pesticides to meet the MACs in Severn Trent . |