Example sentences of "[been] set [adv prt] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A controversial issue was the future ownership of the assets of the PUWP ; a parliamentary commission had been set up shortly before the conference to investigate the extent to which such assets , valued by the party at some US$70,000,000 , should be forfeited as illegally acquired from the state .
2 The parallel National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma had been set up principally by exiled members of the National League for Democracy , the main opposition party which had won a landslide victory in the May 1990 elections but had subsequently been prevented by the SLORC from taking power .
3 The command verb , LIFESPAN_PMR , should have been set up previously by the System Manager .
4 The Global Environmental Facility has been set up jointly by the World Bank , and the UN Environment and Development Programmes .
5 Here for once a rural industry had been set up regardless of the availability of local labour or any need to create employment ; at first people in the Weald lacked not merely skill but also , it would seem , sufficient incentive .
6 During the year , the new Revolutionary Government of the Whitsun Islands confiscated the property of the local branch that had been set up there by A. Layout Pty .
7 Various marketing opportunities have been set up recently by ACE including Christmas Cards and a holiday scheme .
8 As part of the Initiative , datasets derived from the Census are being held at Manchester Computing Centre and the Census Dissemination Unit has been set up initially for the period from 1992 to 1997 to support them ; the Census Microdata Unit has also been set up in the Econometrics department of Manchester University .
9 All recent committees of inquiry , and some in the past , have been set up specifically for the task in hand , but between 1944 and 1967 many of the inquiries were undertaken by the Central Advisory Councils for Education ( CACE ) for England and for Wales , bodies set up under the 1944 Education Act to advise ministers on important educational issues .
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