Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] set [adv] in the " in BNC.
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1 | They had been set up in the Heumensoord Camp for several days , but today an air of excitement pervaded the squadron . |
2 | A Christmas tree had been set up in the corridor with fairy lights that winked on and off . |
3 | LGCM had been set up in the 1970s ; it rented a room in St Botolph 's , Aldgate , a church well-known for work with single homeless people in London . |
4 | The United Unionist Action Council , which had been set up in the early summer of 1976 , had a slow and troubled start . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | The recommendations had been set out in the Commission 's interim report published in May . |
7 | That record had been set earlier in the same evening when ‘ Bob 's worlds ’ ( Sotheby 's lot 37 , est. $250–350,000 ) , an important crockery picture , had been purchased by a telephone bidder against art adviser Jeffrey Deitch . |