Example sentences of "had [be] set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | This accusation had been set temporarily to one side after the discovery of the Phillips curve and its subsequent absorption into income-expenditure models . |
2 | He reported that £1,000 had been set aside for proper surfacing of paths at Radford Park . |
3 | The last day had been set aside for a hunting trip , a full day out in the field , putting into practice , hopefully , all we had learned . |
4 | A room had been set aside for the investigation . |
5 | It had been set aside for no obvious purpose with a low table and several padded vinyl seats ; they were old and split with yellow foam bulging out , and on the walls were two art-school lithographs bearing optimistic prices . |
6 | A short time later , a car pulled into the underground drive-through that had been set aside for taxis and pick-ups at the mainline rail terminus . |
7 | The smallest of the three rooms had been set aside for the officer in charge ; it had a desk , a couple of chairs , and a telephone which , allegedly , would soon be functional . |
8 | Wycliffe went through to the little room which had been set aside for callers . |
9 | Parking the car in the small space beneath the house that had been set aside for it , Belinda skimmed silently up the back stairs . |
10 | An evening had been set aside for a get-together of the Branch 's top 50 clients to promote Special Savings Accounts . |
11 | The only substantial aid received by the government so far had been $300,000,000 from the United States agreed by the US Congress in May 1990 [ see p. 37450 ] , which had been gradually disbursed , except for $50,000,000 which had been set aside for clearing debt arrears . |
12 | It was a perfect site because the building , for which a quarter of a million pounds ( £8,250,000 ) had been set aside from the Twentieth Century Fund , was meant to be ‘ a challenge to the Church of England ’ . |
13 | Six of his retainers were put to death at York on the day of his own execution , together with another eleven rebels , including Roger Clifford and John Mowbray , whose claim to the lordship of Gower had been set aside by the king in 1319 . |
14 | 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 . |