Example sentences of "[been] set " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point has been to set people free from constraints ; and leave them free to take advantage of the opportunities around them . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , although it is easy to see why the thrust of the arguments has throughout been to concentrate on the charging of the suspect and ( in the light of Ex parte Saunders ) on the association of a renewed caution with any exercise of the Director 's powers where the person under interrogation has already been charged , I believe that the result has been to set the inquiry off in the wrong direction . |
| 3 | One of his achievements since joining Guy 's in 1985 has been to set up a full fertility unit . |
| 4 | Since the late 1970s management boards have been set up consisting of three diocesan nominees , including normally the parish priest , two parents , and the head teacher . |
| 5 | A subsidiary publishing company , Alma Books , has been set up to produce a number of guide books and the Campaign also works with commercial publishers to produce such titles as Classic Town and Country Pubs and Beer , Bed and Breakfast . |
| 6 | Similarly with the power-limiting device the pilot can control the speed once the optimum power for the type of glider has been set . |
| 7 | A chain of self-help groups has already been set up throughout the country by concerned parents . |
| 8 | The blinking was a reflex which could equally well have been set off by a puff of wind or a flash of light . |
| 9 | After all , in Paris and Rome , Copenhagen and Amsterdam , I had frequently made a complete mess of whole sentences , much less place names , and had generally been set in the right direction , after a little bit of repetition and a lot of hand waving . |
| 10 | Each player has been set an individual achievement target , and has the security of a year-long period in which to prove himself . |
| 11 | If savings have been set aside for a funeral , and would now pay for one at current prices , that money , invested at the best rate of interest , may be enough to pay for the funeral when it occurs . |
| 12 | Various marketing opportunities have been set up recently by ACE including Christmas Cards and a holiday scheme . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The magnitudes of these two readings should not be the same , if the zero-offset has been set correctly . |
| 15 | Quantity in this sense , duration , is what musicians and musical composers are continually concerned with ; and so it is not surprising that poets of this way of thinking , like Pound and Bunting , show themselves avidly interested in poetry which has been , not at a level of theory but as a fact of performance , intimately associated with music : poetry that has been set , or has been written in the hope of being set , to music . |
| 16 | An organisation has been set up in Leicester to help the growing number of young people addicted to gambling . |
| 17 | A government spokesman said 59 post offices , 53 other buildings , 75 vehicles and a rubber factory had been set ablaze since security forces stopped searches , ambushes and raids against the People 's Liberation Front ( JVP ) last Wednesday . |
| 18 | And no time limit has been set for the congress , simply because no one knows how long it will last and how it will end . |
| 19 | New services for adult survivors of sexual abuse have been set up . |
| 20 | At the moment , no date for its formation has been set but Sir Geoffrey has been asked to make specific recommendations ‘ as soon as possible ’ . |
| 21 | This makes the precedents that have been set in America important to anyone who is interested in playing the market . |
| 22 | Their press network , built up from 1917 on , had fluctuated in extent with the fortunes of the Civil War , but at its end nearly sixty papers in various national languages had been set up . |
| 23 | A £2,000,000 target had been set for the Battle of Britain Wings Appeal in the full knowledge that our sister charity , the RAF Benevolent Fund was launching its £20,000,000 ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal , and that the Association would be offering as much support as possible to that . |
| 24 | Once the action and reaction grievance-violence-remedy of grievance has been set up , it goes on of its own accord . |
| 25 | Both insisted that any bilateral talks should wait until after the international conference , for which a date had at last been set : President Roosevelt issued a statement on 4 September inviting the nations of the world to a conference on international civil aviation to be held in Chicago in November . |
| 26 | Clearly , in order to save some money , the carousel has been set up in downtown Oslo , about ten kilometres away . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | While the two aircraft commanders get their heads together to sort out the best approach to the problem we have been set , the two pilots sort out the flying side of life . |
| 29 | They had been set up in the Heumensoord Camp for several days , but today an air of excitement pervaded the squadron . |
| 30 | Because what she wants is smaller and less costly than what has been set before her , she never recognises as gluttony her determination to get what she wants , however troublesome it may be to others … |