Example sentences of "[pron] had [been] set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , those who were involved in the new machinery of public credit which had been set up as a result of the financial revolution were doing remarkably well , through their investments in institutions such as the Bank of England and the New East India Company , and from the interest they received on loans to the government . |
| 2 | Renamo , which had been set up with the support of the white minority government in Rhodesia and which after Zimbabwean independence received substantial South African assistance , was opposed to the Marxist regime imposed by the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique ( Frelimo ) . |
| 3 | After the return to civilian rule , the newly formed state radio corporations , which had been set up to be independent of Federal Government authority , were immediately subjected to local political control . |
| 4 | The tribunal , which had been set up under the 1981 Algiers Accord , had yet to determine the exact sum of compensation to be paid . |
| 5 | Monica rang lawyers at the Vicariate of Solidarity , which had been set up by the Catholic Church in 1975 and was by now Chile 's leading human rights organization . |
| 6 | One of the most controversial areas of GLC activity ( and this was picked up by the Tories in a party political broadcast as early as 1984 ) , was the Gay Teenage Group which had been set up by gay young men in 1976 . |
| 7 | The demonstrators were calling for the resumption of the National Conference , suspended by the government in January , which had been set up by more than 130 political parties to review and undertake reform on Zaire 's one-party political system . |
| 8 | A ZANLA terrorist had risen out of the bushes with a Kalashnikov while Mike had been involved in an ambush on the Limpopo river which had been set up by the Selous Scouts , the counterinsurgency tracking teams of the Rhodesian army . |
| 9 | Local businesses responded generously to an appeal from School , and a generous grant was received from a fund which had been set up by leading industrialists to help Independent Schools to provide buildings and equipment for Scientific teaching and research . |
| 10 | Fontaine had made known his intention to give evidence to the new National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation , which had been set up by the government on April 25 to investigate human right violations under the Pinochet regime . |
| 11 | But instead of reconnecting it afterwards , BT gave the fax number to a rival firm which had been set up by Mr Lihou 's former partners . |
| 12 | Wolfenden was commissioned not by the state but by the Central Council of Physical Recreation ( CCPR ) , which had been set up in 1935 as a co-ordinating body for the many voluntary associations involved in the running of sport . |
| 13 | He took over an existing but derelict blast furnace at Coalbrookdale ( q.v. ) which had been set up in 1638 , and in 1709 he discovered the method of smelting iron with coke instead of charcoal . |
| 14 | A E Hook & Co , which had been set up in 1922 and ran offices in Sandown , Ryde and Newport , was earning a respectable fee income of around £600,000 but had decided that the island did not offer prospects for further material growth . |
| 15 | The United Unionist Action Council , which had been set up in the early summer of 1976 , had a slow and troubled start . |
| 16 | This type of committee was modelled on the Select Committee on Nationalized Industries which had been set up in 1955 because it was felt that Parliament could not adequately control the range of corporations it had created . |
| 17 | On 11 September the German Standortkommandantur , which had been set up in the Piazza Garibaldi to administer the city of Parma , issued a series of orders , one of which stated that it was forbidden for civilians to have guns and that looting would be punishable by death . |
| 18 | The Labour government elected in 1984 was the first to recognize the scale of Maori discontent , and extended the powers of the Waitangi Tribunal which had been set up in 1975 to act as an arbiter of Maori grievances . |
| 19 | The announcement halted the judicial inquiry under Sir John May which had been set up in March to investigate all the convictions connected with the pub bombings . |
| 20 | Notably , this legalized republican police forces , but the central government retained control over the Interior Ministry troops used to put down serious unrest , and over the OMON ( " Special Purpose Militia Detachments " , also known as the " Black Berets " ) , the urban riot police which had been set up in 1987 and had gained international notoriety as a result of January 's armed clampdown in the Baltic republics [ see p. 37944-45 and above ] . |
| 21 | Year of foundation : 1961 , replacing the Organization for European Economic Co-operation ( OEEC ) which had been set up in 1948 in connection with the Marshall Plan . |
| 22 | This can be seen in Truman 's decision on the future of the joint body , the Combined Chiefs of Staff , which had been set up in 1942 to co-ordinate Anglo-American strategy against Germany and Japan . |
| 23 | Although the rules do not make this absolutely clear it would be extraordinary if they were interpreted as preventing a party from adducing any oral evidence , even that which had been set down in witness statements served in compliance with the direction , simply because he attempts to adduce additional oral evidence at trial which he should have included in an earlier witness statement . |
| 24 | However , when the regulations came to be made , the government maintained that the policy which had been set out during the passage of the Bill through the House was unworkable . |
| 25 | I did Hope that Lord Nelson who was staying at Raby might come down to partake of the fayre which had been set out on a Royal Oak table decorated with a huge Wheatsheaf , Blue Bells and a small Green Tree that looked very much like Three Tuns . |
| 26 | The second task was to stand on some planks of wood which had been set out in a hexagon . |
| 27 | Hannah Dooley knew a bloke in Birmingham who had been set on by a group of small ‘ pod-like ’ creatures while out walking his dog . |
| 28 | It was just like Ireland to have a disastrous afternoon against Wales when we had been set up by the bookies as firm favourites . |
| 29 | These firms had either splintered off from American companies — as in the case of Norman Broadbent — or they had been set up on their own from scratch , in a variety of forms such as MSL , EAL , Tyzack , Alexander Hughes , Goddard Kay Rogers , John Stork , Merton and Whitehead Mann , to name but a few . |
| 30 | They had been set up in the Heumensoord Camp for several days , but today an air of excitement pervaded the squadron . |