Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [be] set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just like Ireland to have a disastrous afternoon against Wales when we had been set up by the bookies as firm favourites . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They had been set up in the Heumensoord Camp for several days , but today an air of excitement pervaded the squadron . |
| 4 | They had been set up in response to the current level of terrorist activity , but the need for them was assessed daily . |
| 5 | Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone . |
| 6 | It had been set up with a directly practical focus : to provide insights and resources which would help teachers in initial training to prepare themselves to use activities involving collaborative work between children . |
| 7 | The KANU policy review failed to address demands for wide-ranging political reform , although it had been set up after the rioting in July 1990 in the wake of a growing campaign by pro-democracy supporters [ p. 37603 ] . |
| 8 | No , he had been set up by his fellow conspirators . |