Example sentences of "had been set [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bendcrete competition structure used at the British Open at Olympia last year had been set up in all its over-hanging glory next to the existing facilities . |
| 2 | Wolfenden was commissioned not by the state but by the Central Council of Physical Recreation ( CCPR ) , which had been set up in 1935 as a co-ordinating body for the many voluntary associations involved in the running of sport . |
| 3 | They had been set up in the Heumensoord Camp for several days , but today an air of excitement pervaded the squadron . |
| 4 | A Christmas tree had been set up in the corridor with fairy lights that winked on and off . |
| 5 | The group maintains that by the time Mr Outhwaite agreed to take on the US risks , the dangers of asbestosis were already known : a Lloyd 's working party had been set up in 1980 to look at the issue . |
| 6 | Among other stories , it was rumoured that a gallows had been set up in Düsseldorf with a picture of the Führer hanging from it . |
| 7 | The National Land Fund had been set up in 1946 as the nation 's war memorial . |
| 8 | The Fleming committee had been set up in response to pressure from the independent schools themselves : their heads and governors had been worried by the drop in enrolments and income in the 1930s , and many hoped to share in the growing national investment that would follow the War . |
| 9 | He took over an existing but derelict blast furnace at Coalbrookdale ( q.v. ) which had been set up in 1638 , and in 1709 he discovered the method of smelting iron with coke instead of charcoal . |
| 10 | Her plea was of course that a trust had been set up in her favour . |
| 11 | The group identified three specific problems : the large number of design and furniture requirements ; the fact that many Woonerven did not meet these requirements ; and that there was no legal regulation for Woonerf-like areas that were not located in residential areas but had been set up in shopping streets ( Winkelerven ) ( Figure 4.9 ) and village centres ( Dorpserven ) . |
| 12 | LGCM had been set up in the 1970s ; it rented a room in St Botolph 's , Aldgate , a church well-known for work with single homeless people in London . |
| 13 | They had been set up in response to the current level of terrorist activity , but the need for them was assessed daily . |
| 14 | A E Hook & Co , which had been set up in 1922 and ran offices in Sandown , Ryde and Newport , was earning a respectable fee income of around £600,000 but had decided that the island did not offer prospects for further material growth . |
| 15 | A television set had been set up in it and , at 10. 15 p.m. , they watched Harold Wilson make his speech . |
| 16 | The United Unionist Action Council , which had been set up in the early summer of 1976 , had a slow and troubled start . |
| 17 | The new squad had been set up in C1 to investigate serious crimes that , for political or other reasons , needed particularly sensitive handling . |
| 18 | This was based on the assumption that once supranational institutions had been set up in one economic sector , interest groups would look to that political level for the realisation of their demands , and that in time the groups would begin to appreciate the value to themselves of integration . |
| 19 | The idea itself went back at least to the 1850s when such boards had been set up in shipbuilding on the Wear and for the silk trade in Macclesfield . |
| 20 | This type of committee was modelled on the Select Committee on Nationalized Industries which had been set up in 1955 because it was felt that Parliament could not adequately control the range of corporations it had created . |
| 21 | But they were very reluctant to attend antenatal classes and so this club had been set up in response to this . |
| 22 | The Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne ( CIAM ) had been set up in 1928 . |
| 23 | An Expert Committee on Compensation and Betterment had been set up in January under the chairmanship of Mr Justice Uthwatt with terms of reference ‘ to make an objective analysis of the subject of the payment of compensation and recovery of betterment in respect of public control of the use of land ’ . |
| 24 | The steam boiler had been set up in a shed at the back of the offworlder 's house . |
| 25 | Thus Communist parties were functioning in the major Latin American countries by 1923 , and had been set up in most others by the end of the decade . |
| 26 | On 11 September the German Standortkommandantur , which had been set up in the Piazza Garibaldi to administer the city of Parma , issued a series of orders , one of which stated that it was forbidden for civilians to have guns and that looting would be punishable by death . |
| 27 | When they arrived , they would be led into a sitting room where a microphone had been set up in front of each chair , with a tape recorder in the middle of the floor . |
| 28 | The law on the currency reform had been approved by parliament the following day , while on Dec. 26 Yugoslavia 's first stock exchange had been set up in Ljubljana . |
| 29 | The Labour government elected in 1984 was the first to recognize the scale of Maori discontent , and extended the powers of the Waitangi Tribunal which had been set up in 1975 to act as an arbiter of Maori grievances . |
| 30 | The RTC had been set up in August 1989 [ see p. 36843 ] as a new arm of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) , to be supervised by William Seidman , the FDIC chairman , and with an oversight board which decided policy and funding . |