Example sentences of "set in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Dr Richard Earle , director of the IOS , accelerated ageing is most likely to set in between 40 and 50 , with women ageing faster during this decade than men ( an average of eighteen years compared to fifteen ) . |
| 2 | But disappointment began to set in by the time the ballot boxes had been emptied , and when the second stage of the count began , at 12.45 a.m. , it soon became clear that it would be a two-horse race . |
| 3 | The stately whooper swans fly in from Iceland in late September or October , the timing probably depending on how soon the first winter frosts set in up north . |
| 4 | Most players are baffled by the animosity that set in between Morgan and Docherty , although one former . |
| 5 | The differences set in with the different ways in which boys and girls may typically ( not ‘ must always ’ ) resolve the Oedipus complex . |
| 6 | Outside of London , too , generally over the South , the West and the South-east , a decline in real wages set in at some point in the two decades centred on 1760 , as money wages fell behind rising prices . |
| 7 | But when diminishing marginal returns set in in 1983-4 , further increases in duty deterred consumption leading to falling sales and eventually lower tax revenue for the Treasury . |
| 8 | Chemical warfare would set in with appalling ferocity , leaving the sward slimy with dead worms . |
| 9 | The few ships out in the harbour sent up fireworks and flares , and the low hills around town echoed with the wail of sirens and foghorns — at least until the dark did set in at about three in the morning . |
| 10 | In particular , unsteadiness may set in at much lower Ra than it would in their absence . |
| 11 | Then , anything might set in after that job . " |
| 12 | After the neighbours and the dinner and the Queen 's speech , depression would set in from the rich food and the gins and tonics . |
| 13 | Part of this represented a disquieting pattern which had set in since the 1960s ( see Table 2.3 ) . |
| 14 | Panic has set in as the league 's Draconian restructuring unfolds with four clubs relegated from Division One and seven from Division Two . |
| 15 | Rapid weight loss may have made you feel good at the time , but depression and frustration soon set in as the pounds or kilos slowly creep back on again . |
| 16 | You 'll have to sooner or later and I reckon this storm 's set in for hours . |
| 17 | Let's get inside , the rain 's set in for the day . ’ |
| 18 | The literature review will be set in to a general policy context of recent developments in the UK vocational training field . |
| 19 | The first proof that the rot had set in at the Midland was the full disclosure of its profits and reserves in 1969 . |
| 20 | The fog had not set in at that time , late afternoon , and the dockers were able to describe the men as respectable-looking young gents in peaked caps . |
| 21 | Some have suggested that the time of death should be postdated to the ninth century , arguing that while the reign of Charlemagne ( 768 – 814 ) saw a last futile effort to revive a state-run fiscal system , rigor mortis finally set in with the new barbarian onslaughts of Vikings and Saracens . |
| 22 | Rain had set in after the heatwave and there was an infestation of jelly fishes in the Moray Firth . |
| 23 | Soon after the war ended it trebled its student members when the Ministry of Education issued grants to ex-servicemen in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the disillusionment that had set in after the First World War . |
| 24 | Putrefaction had set in around the nose and mouth , the skin felt cold and soggy as Corbett gently turned the head to look at the fatal weal round the neck , a broad , purple black gash with little round indentations which made it look like some ghostly parody of a necklace . |
| 25 | And for the mass of the petty bourgeoisie , which had from the beginning provided a backbone of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ , the period when , materially , the Third Reich turned to unmitigated disaster only seems to have set in from 1942 onwards . |
| 26 | General bewilderment had set in by this year 's quarter-final stage , by which point most of the big names — Toulouse , Racing , Agen , Narbonne and Béziers — had fallen by the wayside . |
| 27 | However , a touch of decadence appeared to have set in by then , in that the tough space bar of Star Wars ( universally recognized as a genre reference to saloon bars in Westerns where it was unwise to order sarsaparilla ) had given way to the court of Jabba the Hutt , full of twitching , pulsating creatures in perpetual motion but lacking menace or much humour . |
| 28 | I got wet again , as the rain had set in in stair-rods . |
| 29 | As caries sets in at a weak point in the tooth 's enamel and spreads to rot the whole tooth , so an appeal to the crown could trigger the decay of local autonomy . |
| 30 | Now erm suddenly , it sets in at one particular temperature , this resistance just disappears entirely . |