Example sentences of "had [been] set [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hannah Dooley knew a bloke in Birmingham who had been set on by a group of small ‘ pod-like ’ creatures while out walking his dog . |
| 2 | Monica rang lawyers at the Vicariate of Solidarity , which had been set up by the Catholic Church in 1975 and was by now Chile 's leading human rights organization . |
| 3 | The CPRS had been set up by Ted Heath to advise on long-term policy issues . |
| 4 | This body had been set up by Bismarck in 1886 , when it was estimated that if the Ostflucht continued , 3 million Germans would have left their homes in the Prussian east by the start of the twentieth century . |
| 5 | One of the most controversial areas of GLC activity ( and this was picked up by the Tories in a party political broadcast as early as 1984 ) , was the Gay Teenage Group which had been set up by gay young men in 1976 . |
| 6 | It was just like Ireland to have a disastrous afternoon against Wales when we had been set up by the bookies as firm favourites . |
| 7 | The demonstrators were calling for the resumption of the National Conference , suspended by the government in January , which had been set up by more than 130 political parties to review and undertake reform on Zaire 's one-party political system . |
| 8 | GLEB had been set up by the GLC in 1983 to provide venture capital to start up enterprises and provide jobs in the London area . |
| 9 | Hoare was apparently unaware that the account — in the name of Islamische Antiquitäten — had been set up by James . |
| 10 | A ZANLA terrorist had risen out of the bushes with a Kalashnikov while Mike had been involved in an ambush on the Limpopo river which had been set up by the Selous Scouts , the counterinsurgency tracking teams of the Rhodesian army . |
| 11 | The presence of an independent standing group to advise the Home Secretary was no novelty since an Advisory Council on the Treatment of Offenders had been set up by Herbert Morrison as early as 1944 as part of the plans for post-war re-construction . |
| 12 | Local businesses responded generously to an appeal from School , and a generous grant was received from a fund which had been set up by leading industrialists to help Independent Schools to provide buildings and equipment for Scientific teaching and research . |
| 13 | These emphases were repeated by Konstantin Chernenko , particularly in his address to the commission that had been set up by the Central Committee to prepare a revised programme . |
| 14 | No , he had been set up by his fellow conspirators . |
| 15 | CW said that we had only just discovered how inefficiently the network had been set up by the previous company , and that the speed would be substantially improved by the network upgrade . |
| 16 | Fontaine had made known his intention to give evidence to the new National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation , which had been set up by the government on April 25 to investigate human right violations under the Pinochet regime . |
| 17 | These talks , boycotted or disrupted by the employers and unions since their initiation , had been set up by the government on Sept. 20 following widespread unrest in May and July [ see pp. 37450 ; 37607 ] . |
| 18 | Two new bodies had been set up by presidential decree in September . |
| 19 | The barbecue had been set up by the lake , whither Matthew and Sara were conducted by the white-jacketed foreign butler . |
| 20 | The practical effect of this is illustrated by the case of Strange ( SW ) Ltd v Mann [ 1965 ] 1 WLR 629 where at the time of entering the contract the business was exclusively a credit-betting business and it was accepted by all parties that the validity of the covenant fell to be tested without regard to the fact that subsequently betting shops became legal and that a betting shop had been set up by the plaintiff . |
| 21 | But instead of reconnecting it afterwards , BT gave the fax number to a rival firm which had been set up by Mr Lihou 's former partners . |
| 22 | All that had been achieved was a more punitive regime , while the cause of sex reform had been set back by the whitewashing of women and the doctrine of the uncleanness of men . |
| 23 | However , the process had been set back by delays in the assembly programme [ see p. 38706 ] . |