Example sentences of "[pers pn] set in " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the foregoing work that Tim Grant and I set in motion I believe that we have gained certain value . |
| 2 | Leave them to set in the fridge until ready for serving . |
| 3 | You should continue to keep the time log to see whether the actual use of time conforms to the goals you set in the Action Plan . |
| 4 | ‘ You can be confident that the flywheel of change which you set in motion is resolutely turning , ’ said Director Engineering Group . |
| 5 | When a honey bee discovers a flower , for example , she sets in motion a learning sequence which seems utterly mechanical in nature . |
| 6 | Jenny came in with some flowers from the garden which she set in small posy bowls down the centre and James took the pink lustre candlesticks from the mantelpiece and set them among the flowers . |
| 7 | But this win was all about tactics , not times , and the way she demolished a field including two women who have beaten Liz McColgan in major championships — Elly Van Hulst ( who still holds the world record she set in taking the 1989 title ) and Lyn Jennings , the world cross-country champion for the last two years — must have whetted her appetite for Stuttgart and the ‘ real ’ world championships in August . |
| 8 | Civilization had to be more than a mere confluence of economic interests : ‘ And until we set in order our own crazy economic and financial systems , to say nothing of our philosophy of life , can we be sure that our helping hands to the barbarian and the savage will be any more desirable than the embrace of the leper ? ’ |
| 9 | Because we are outraged by the conflict in Yugoslavia today , we should be ready for similar things to happen elsewhere in Europe unless we ensure that we set in place institutions to prevent them . |
| 10 | THE person with the yellow rosette looked barely old enough to be supping the pint we set in front of him . |
| 11 | Later they had them set in a row near the climbing frame . |
| 12 | It is strange that I can find no reference to these beans in Peggy Earl 's " Tales of Islay " because it was she who told me that they were sometimes called " fairy eggs " and that some of the more wealthy people had them set in silver mounts to wear round their necks . |
| 13 | It is strange that I can find no reference to these beans in Peggy Earl 's " Tales of Islay " because it was she who told me that they were sometimes called " fairy eggs " and that some of the more wealthy people had them set in silver mounts to wear round their necks . |
| 14 | It went against all biological sense to suggest that the receptors and the elaborate physiological adaptations which they set in motion had no purpose , or had evolved in response to taking opium . |
| 15 | Melt the remaining 3 oz. of clarified butter and pour it , tepid , over the tongue paste , so that it sets in a sealing layer about one eighth of an inch thick . |
| 16 | It sets in a coniferous haze |
| 17 | When Admiral James Watkins , US secretary of energy , instructed his Department of Energy ( DoE ) laboratories to clean up their heavily contaminated sites , he set in motion an elegant synergy that is leading to new ways of destroying pollutants . |
| 18 | He embarked soon after on his long verse-tragedy Osorio , a story ‘ romantic & wild & somewhat terrible ’ , which he set in Spain at the time of the Inquisition , but which was to draw , at least to a small extent , on his Quantock and Exmoor wanderings of the next few months . |
| 19 | Relations between Becker and the rest of the German team would appear to have deteriorated after the incident in Melbourne when , within minutes of learning that Stich and Udo Riglewski had been nominated to represent Germany in the doubles , in Barcelona , he set in motion a chain of events which led to a quick re-think . |
| 20 | The text from the Canticle of Canticles 2:4 ordinavit in me caritatem ( he set in order charity in me ) distils imaginatively Hilton 's understanding that love can only be properly expressed through a disciplined orientation of the particular gifts and powers of the self to God . |
| 21 | The ICS , as a body , had never been much taken with political reform , sensing correctly that it set in motion a process whereby they could expect only to be replaced , and both reason and sentiment told them that this would never do . |
| 22 | In doing so , it set in motion a legal process , the result of which is the current Ball Pool Sponsorship Agreement . |
| 23 | It set in motion an inquiry into the truth concerning the Princess of Wales , her marriage and her life within the royal family . |
| 24 | It set in motion what we call a debris flow , a mixture of 50-ton boulders , rocks , sand and gravel bound together in a kind of slurry , which came rolling down the side canyon and dammed the river . |
| 25 | The congress confirmed the decline in party authority when it set in place a leadership divorced as never before from the mechanisms of state and government . |