Example sentences of "had [be] set [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This should have satisfied the students , but it was too little , too late ; a course of action had been set into motion which was difficult to reverse . |
| 2 | A few weeks ago I wrote to inform your Mother and Aunts of the Death of Mr. Green 's eldest unmarried Daughter , who was the main prop of the Family , and of a plan which had been set on foot for their relief by raising a Subscription , to which I received a most kind and satisfactory reply . |
| 3 | He had visited the billiard room that morning and his nerves had been set on edge by the distressing scenes he had witnessed . |
| 4 | Firemen needed police support as they tackled a car in the driveway which had been set on fire . |
| 5 | But they arrived to discover the house had been set on fire by attempts to burn large quantities of ‘ literature ’ . |
| 6 | The big pine table in the middle of the floor had been set for dinner , and on it stood a bottle of cheap wine from the village store . |
| 7 | This was because a slogan — which he himself coined — had been set to music and became a hit tune of the period : ‘ I-Scream , you scream . |
| 8 | This posed the question : if capitalist equilibrium had been disrupted beyond recall and expanded negative reproduction had been set in motion , how was a new socialist equilibrium to be brought into being ? |
| 9 | An A$970,000,0000 ( US$748,000,000 ) rescue operation by the state government had been set in motion before the announcement , which followed on from the collapse of the merchant banking section of the State Bank of Victoria in August 1990 [ see p. 37658 ] and that of Western Australia 's Rothwells merchant bank in November 1988 [ see p. 37920 ] . |
| 10 | The process had been set in motion on March 15 with the handing over of border crossings to units of a newly formed Macedonian army . |
| 11 | He said children playing at the scene had been warned to stay away from the posts until they had been set in concrete . |
| 12 | ‘ Ken most of the folk hereabouts ? ’ demanded the customer , uncorking the bottle with his teeth and filling the grubby glass that had been set in front of him . |