Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] set [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sam was n't privileged to meet them either as he 'd been set to work whitewashing the Barracks , which they never got around to inspecting . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A few weeks ago I wrote to inform your Mother and Aunts of the Death of Mr. Green 's eldest unmarried Daughter , who was the main prop of the Family , and of a plan which had been set on foot for their relief by raising a Subscription , to which I received a most kind and satisfactory reply . |
| 6 | He had visited the billiard room that morning and his nerves had been set on edge by the distressing scenes he had witnessed . |
| 7 | Firemen needed police support as they tackled a car in the driveway which had been set on fire . |
| 8 | But they arrived to discover the house had been set on fire by attempts to burn large quantities of ‘ literature ’ . |
| 9 | No date had been set for pesticides to meet the MACs in Severn Trent . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This was because a slogan — which he himself coined — had been set to music and became a hit tune of the period : ‘ I-Scream , you scream . |
| 12 | The previous record had been set by Fiorentina , who went 40 league games without defeat in 1955-56 . |
| 13 | Any suggestion of Italianism is stamped out by the steady march of the voices : Incidentally , one of Kittel 's Arien is a setting of the last three strophes of Opitz 's ‘ Nachtklag ’ , the first six of which had been set by Schütz as a madrigal , ‘ Itzt blicken durch des Himmels Saal ’ for five voices , two violins , and continuo . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ That week orchestras around the world programmed the Adagietto as an elegy to Lenny 's memory , ’ Kaplan recalls , ‘ and while the precedent had been set by Bernstein himself [ he had conducted the movement at a memorial service for Koussevitzky and later at the funeral of US Senator Robert Kennedy ] , I was afraid that these ultra-slow , sad performances were helping to a trend into a false tradition . ’ |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 19 | He said children playing at the scene had been warned to stay away from the posts until they had been set in concrete . |
| 20 | The ground rules had been set in Australia , but the ground had changed , and It had come into existence . |
| 21 | ‘ Ken most of the folk hereabouts ? ’ demanded the customer , uncorking the bottle with his teeth and filling the grubby glass that had been set in front of him . |