Example sentences of "had be set [adv prt] [prep] " 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 | ( The six-county state of Northern Ireland had been set up under the Government of Ireland Act , 1920 ) . |
| 3 | The IPCC had been set up under United Nations auspices following the November 1988 world climate conference [ see p. 36784 ] and was due to meet again in August 1990 in Stockholm . |
| 4 | A provisional executive committee had been set up under the chairmanship of Franiszek Kaminski . |
| 5 | The news agency TASS reported that a commission had been set up under Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulkhashim Mutalov , to investigate the disturbances . |
| 6 | The tribunal , which had been set up under the 1981 Algiers Accord , had yet to determine the exact sum of compensation to be paid . |
| 7 | It had been set up with a directly practical focus : to provide insights and resources which would help teachers in initial training to prepare themselves to use activities involving collaborative work between children . |
| 8 | Renamo , which had been set up with the support of the white minority government in Rhodesia and which after Zimbabwean independence received substantial South African assistance , was opposed to the Marxist regime imposed by the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique ( Frelimo ) . |
| 9 | Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone . |
| 10 | The show had been set up for the little jockey but maybe , at some time in the future , Mrs Butler would be interested . |
| 11 | In fact , outside the Europe of the Six very little had been achieved and very little interest had been displayed in integration and cooperation beyond the all-European organisations that had been set up at the end of the previous decade . |
| 12 | Schmidt-Richberg reported that , as from the previous day , Army Group E's HQ had been set up at Feistritz , in 5 Corps area on the north side of the Alps , and that a huge force under his command , comprising some 300,000 German and 200,000 Groat troops , most of them armed , was approaching the frontier with Austria from the south . |
| 13 | Three makeshift stalls had been set up at the entrance to a shopping mall . |
| 14 | A police spokeswoman said an incident room had been set up at West Hendon police station but that the investigation had not become a murder inquiry . |
| 15 | These firms had either splintered off from American companies — as in the case of Norman Broadbent — or they had been set up on their own from scratch , in a variety of forms such as MSL , EAL , Tyzack , Alexander Hughes , Goddard Kay Rogers , John Stork , Merton and Whitehead Mann , to name but a few . |
| 16 | Even afterwards at Four Winds , where a marquee had been set up on the lawn , and the guests mingled , Merrill still saw the affair as a disjointed series of impressions . |
| 17 | The commission had been set up on June 4 to examine the implementation of the May 28 Sejm resolution on the exposure of former agents [ see p. 38972 ; the resolution had in fact originally called for exposures by June 6 , not June 20 as stated on that page ] . |
| 18 | After the return to civilian rule , the newly formed state radio corporations , which had been set up to be independent of Federal Government authority , were immediately subjected to local political control . |
| 19 | The present writer was co-ordinator of the UUUC ‘ Advice and Relief Centres ’ of which several hundred had been set up across the country . |
| 20 | They linked this with a national rent rebate scheme , rationalizing the variety of local schemes that had been set up over the previous decade , to offset the costs to the poorer tenants . |
| 21 | This pattern carried on one which already characterised the silk mills that had been set up following the success of the Derby mill . |
| 22 | Her father bought them a drink and ordered lunch and they wheeled Jennifer 's chair up to one of the small tables that had been set up outside the marquee in the sunshine . |
| 23 | A British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) television programme , Panorama , broadcast on Nov. 18 , suggested that Waite had been set up as a front man in the arms for hostages deal and helped gather intelligence on the whereabouts of the captors . |
| 24 | By contrast , those who were involved in the new machinery of public credit which had been set up as a result of the financial revolution were doing remarkably well , through their investments in institutions such as the Bank of England and the New East India Company , and from the interest they received on loans to the government . |
| 25 | On his arrival , he had been satisfied to see the defences that had been set up around the hospital , and had every intention of congratulating those responsible . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The CPRS had been set up by Ted Heath to advise on long-term policy issues . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was just like Ireland to have a disastrous afternoon against Wales when we had been set up by the bookies as firm favourites . |