Example sentences of "had be set in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | The play had been set in a military hospital in England in 1944 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | The ground rules had been set in Australia , but the ground had changed , and It had come into existence . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A speaker had been set in one of the trees , like some modernistic bird's-nest , and Sara noticed the long snaky trail of the cable connecting it with the hi-fi in the house . |
| 8 | A table for two had been set in a sort of bower beneath a canopy of spreading palms . |
| 9 | He said children playing at the scene had been warned to stay away from the posts until they had been set in concrete . |