Example sentences of "been set [adv prt] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 A controversial issue was the future ownership of the assets of the PUWP ; a parliamentary commission had been set up shortly before the conference to investigate the extent to which such assets , valued by the party at some US$70,000,000 , should be forfeited as illegally acquired from the state .
2 It was a big machine which I think had not been set up right — it seemed to have more blades than necessary .
3 Busacher snorted , drank , and wandered over to look at the long table which had been set up right down the centre of Willi 's big living room .
4 The parallel National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma had been set up principally by exiled members of the National League for Democracy , the main opposition party which had won a landslide victory in the May 1990 elections but had subsequently been prevented by the SLORC from taking power .
5 Of some of the other developments outlined in the Treaty of Rome , a European Investment Bank , based in Luxembourg , had been set up immediately to provide capital for the future balanced development of the Community .
6 In the opinion of the IMS , the bureau and the customer sections , the systems relating to " persons " and senior staff have been set up successfully .
7 ‘ We had an advantage in that there had been an effort to devolve management responsibility , the investment operation had been set up separately and there were business divisions .
8 The command verb , LIFESPAN_PMR , should have been set up previously by the System Manager .
9 The Global Environmental Facility has been set up jointly by the World Bank , and the UN Environment and Development Programmes .
10 The orange light resolved itself into four roadwork lanterns — and then he saw the cordon and roadblock with its black-and-white wooden pole which had been set up ahead , blocking off the entrance road which led up to the office-block frontage and car park .
11 At the same time the SMS Manager checks that the various storage groups and classes have been set up properly , while the Hierarchical Storage Manager keeps an eye on the way in which data is migrated across media types , avoiding the thrashing that can occur when , for example an application accesses some data every four days and the system is set up to dump unused data to tape storage after three .
12 The Committee of 2 April 1848 had been set up partly because his ministry was thought to be soft .
13 Here for once a rural industry had been set up regardless of the availability of local labour or any need to create employment ; at first people in the Weald lacked not merely skill but also , it would seem , sufficient incentive .
14 Check that the logical name LIFESPANCONFIGURATION has been set up correctly .
15 Check that the logical name SYS$LIFESPAN has been set up correctly and that you have read/write access to your SYS$LOGIN directory .
16 Did he perhaps realize maybe he 's been set up as well ?
17 The centre 's been set up specially to help people like Anita .
18 The French settlements along the river St. Lawrence had no such attractions ; the peasant farmers who settled along the river were probably better off than if they had stayed at home , but they could not produce enough revenue to support the fairly lavish military , civil , and ecclesiastical establishment that had been set up there as well .
19 During the year , the new Revolutionary Government of the Whitsun Islands confiscated the property of the local branch that had been set up there by A. Layout Pty .
20 Instead of the bureaucracy continuing to serve the main purpose for which it has been set up there is an obsession with procedure , because procedure has to serve as the guideline in the absence of anything else .
21 This unit had been set up originally to refine the art of specific writing for Television ; either by seeking out works of literature suitable for adaption , or by commissioning new material and applying it to the ‘ TV-writing art form ’ .
22 We were able to visit two of the eight cooperatives that have been set up so far .
23 Everything has been set up so that science can get moving , ’ he says .
24 A credit for interest owed would not normally have been set up so the interest would be debited to the nominal account shown , which will then merely be transferred into the revenue account :
25 note : The question has been set up so that there is a situation where the current liabilities exceed the current assets in order to allow an explanation of how dangerous this can be in terms of risk .
26 Various marketing opportunities have been set up recently by ACE including Christmas Cards and a holiday scheme .
27 There are some sort of public schools survivors groups which have been set up recently and um it 's interesting that this business of being strong and silent um is a kind of is a kind of nineteenth century hangover and I think it affects men and I think it affects women too to some extent .
28 In July 1984 the Princess had agreed to become patron of a small medical research charity called Birthright , which had been set up initially to try and minimize the dangers of pregnancy and childbirth .
29 As part of the Initiative , datasets derived from the Census are being held at Manchester Computing Centre and the Census Dissemination Unit has been set up initially for the period from 1992 to 1997 to support them ; the Census Microdata Unit has also been set up in the Econometrics department of Manchester University .
30 All recent committees of inquiry , and some in the past , have been set up specifically for the task in hand , but between 1944 and 1967 many of the inquiries were undertaken by the Central Advisory Councils for Education ( CACE ) for England and for Wales , bodies set up under the 1944 Education Act to advise ministers on important educational issues .
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