Example sentences of "[vb past] set in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The analogy was an apt one , for the book helped to set in motion the new movement which came to be known as Dialectical Theology , and whose leading lights , apart from Barth himself , were Brunner , Bultmann and Gogarten . |
| 2 | Now they 're ready to go back to the wild , to a special purpose built set in Yorkshire which will be protected . |
| 3 | It helped set in motion renewed enthusiasm for tree clearance in upland catchment areas as yet another aspect of the land drainage solution . |
| 4 | The " Group of Nine " plus Malta , which was included as an observer , agreed to set in motion a mechanism for co-operation involving annual ministerial meetings — the first scheduled for 1991 in Algiers — and collaborative ventures on multilateral financial institutions , self-sufficiency in food , migration , debt and the protection of cultural heritage , and collaborative action against desertification . |
| 5 | In 1967 the Earl of Antrim and a number of other surviving Irish peers sought to set in motion the machinery for a fresh election of 28 of their number , and petitioned the House to this end . |
| 6 | Eight days before the choice Mains ' face seemed set in a state of shock , for the All Blacks had just escaped 24–21 from defeat by Ireland in the First Test . |
| 7 | Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have . |
| 8 | Morgan and Smith 1989 ) , where I had had the discussion with Simon Holdaway mentioned above , the symbolic nature of police culture consistently surfaced to confound the economic assessment of good practice which the Home Secretary had set in his opening address to the participants . |
| 9 | Viva Hate ! feels implausibly fresh : the music 's breathing again , free of a certain stuffiness and laboriousness that had set in seemingly irreversibly in The Smiths ' twilight period . |
| 10 | As more and more stone-filled gabions were built in to reduce the erosion which the scheme had set in train , it became apparent that Pandora 's box had been opened , and that what might have worked as a piece of traditional river canalization in the cohesive sediments found downstream had proved a recipe for disaster when applied in the unstable gravels of this upland brook . |
| 11 | Among the actual owners of the horses , disbelief had set in the quickest . |
| 12 | In the end it was overtaken by the advent of the ‘ New Draperies ’ , but the downward trend had set in well before the establishment of these in East Anglia ; indeed , in the event they came to replace the contracting broadcloth manufacture which , even as early as 1523 , had shown signs of instability : it was symptomatic of recession that no less than 35 per cent of Spring 's liquid assets had to be written off as irrecoverable , and the winding up of his affairs can not but have dealt its prosperity a mortal blow . |
| 13 | What had happened at Great Casterton was that the discovery of a wall in a place where it could not possibly exist , according to my ideas of the site , had set in motion all my mental defences . |
| 14 | Now that rigor mortis had set in it was in fact all the easier to lift him . |
| 15 | The rain had set in steadily by the time Ruth got home . |
| 16 | Winter had set in truly now . |
| 17 | She had no reassurance to offer and he was convinced of his own responsibility because the sale to MacQuillan had set in train the events leading to Pascoe 's despair . |
| 18 | When they got there a group of men were already pulling the monster off the sharpened stakes they had set in the bottom of a pit . |
| 19 | First Lieutenant Jaroslav Oudran was sentenced on March 14 to 4 1/2 years ' imprisonment and stripped of his rank by a military court , having been convicted of using force in an " inadmissible " way during the violent police dispersal of a demonstration by students on Nov. 17 , 1989 , which had set in motion the events which led to the removal of the communist regime [ see p. 37026 ] . |
| 20 | Although Reith was dismissed in February 1942 , his initiative in these areas had set in train a series of plans for comprehensive redevelopment . |
| 21 | The process which Peter had set in motion persisted to a considerable extent after his death . |
| 22 | And second , we wanted to set in place initiatives by those who had identified a need . |
| 23 | The Frenchman 's voice betrayed no trace of humour , and his tanned , leathery face remained set in unsmiling lines as he spoke . |