Example sentences of "had [been] set [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A government spokesman said 59 post offices , 53 other buildings , 75 vehicles and a rubber factory had been set ablaze since security forces stopped searches , ambushes and raids against the People 's Liberation Front ( JVP ) last Wednesday . |
| 2 | It was the decisive end of an imagination whose bounds had been set wider and wider , the doom of the crystal palaces of the rails , the ferrovitreous stables of the champing iron horses . |
| 3 | Childless women declaimed prayers to the Virgin in Latin while tears rolled down their faces ; and the parents of idiot children danced with them in the market place , swearing that their little brains had been set all to rights . |
| 4 | The action was alleged to have been initiated around Jan. 22 , at about the same time as other Kuwaiti oil wells and storage tanks had been set alight in an apparent attempt to disrupt the allied air campaign . |
| 5 | The building had been set alight by the killer . |
| 6 | Once Edward Morris had been set free , he had recommended her to some of his friends and so trade was looking up . |
| 7 | Nine hostages had been set free since John was taken . |