Example sentences of "was set in " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of Rayner 's first acts was to set in train a series of efficiency scrutinies within Whitehall . |
| 2 | Well , my first job came during four weeks of my last term at RADA when I had applied and been chosen for a television play called It 's Too Late to Talk to Billy which was set in Belfast — which is where I came from originally . |
| 3 | This enabled him to bring together the Judaism of his upbringing and the Roman Catholicism and Anglo-Saxon Protestantism in which it was set in Montreal ; the former dominating of course . |
| 4 | By then , the game was set in an exciting crescendo , Palace interrupting the openings contrived down the right by Mike Newell and Pat Nevin with breaks aimed at Wright 's speed and control . |
| 5 | The scene was set in a cabin on the boat with two men lone Fernandell and a beautiful Tahitian girl wearing only a grass skirt . |
| 6 | Pension funds have been around for a century or more , but their modern form was set in 1950 when Charles Wilson , then president of General Motors , set up a fund for his workers . |
| 7 | Perhaps Mr Browning was entirely above reproach , though there were those who saw him constantly at Isa Blagden 's and thought that friendship promised more ; perhaps he was able to subdue the desires of a healthy man in his prime , but Ferdinando would not be able to if temptation was set in his way . |
| 8 | The building was set in its own garden , since vanished , and was built of red brick . |
| 9 | It was set in a trim garden girdled by white painted paling ; if not God 's cottage , certainly not his manor . |
| 10 | All this was set in just about one acre . |
| 11 | Last night 's mystery was set in an open prison so relaxed that you wondered if the female governor went round tucking up the inmates at night . |
| 12 | The new tone was set in the early hours of Friday when a broken-hearted bearded man of radical inclinations tore down his Labour posters and replaced them with a single bleak statement which , curiously , he must have had printed before the election . |
| 13 | The machinery of identifying and training field workers from among the community groups , and in some areas , college students , of the selection of regional staff and State co-ordinators was set in motion even though the ARC delayed in granting approval for the funding . |
| 14 | But the scene was set in the political climate of the Weimar Republic for political and functional devolution , a system of checks and balances between individual , sectional , and national interests . |
| 15 | The amateur record of 68 was set in the Monthly Medal of May 1986 when Club member Michael Orris broke the Club and his own previous record of 69 set in October 1983 . |
| 16 | He was walking purposefully toward Dr. Briant 's unit , two newspapers held firmly under his arm , and his face was set in hard lines of anger . |
| 17 | The 28-week limit was set in the 1967 Abortion Act , and since then many premature babies born before 28 weeks have survived . |
| 18 | In fact , the film was set in the 1950s , but it is doubtful whether any but a few of the millions who watched the film appreciated that life in a mental hospital is any different today . |
| 19 | In Quebec city the same process was set in train , but later reversed . |
| 20 | There were also the militia , who were duly called out , and the usual routine of beacons and watchers was set in motion . |
| 21 | While her hair was set in large heated rollers to give fullness , Lizzie set to work on Angela 's make-up . |
| 22 | An important innovation in judicial policy was set in motion in 1871 by the passing of legislation which authorized the Governor to establish village tribunals in designated districts . |
| 23 | Samaraweera cites Leonard Woolf 's novel The Village in the Jungle to support his characterization of the average litigant as ignorant of court procedure , but Woolf 's novel was set in an impoverished , dying and atypical village in the dry zone . |
| 24 | Scotland Yard 's operation , codenamed Rolling Rock , was set in motion by Commander David Tucker , the new national anti-terrorism coordinator . |
| 25 | The seal for an uncompromising war of attrition was set in the opening two minutes , when Spurs midfielder David Howells sent David Hillier tumbling and Ray Parlour , Arsenal 's best player , was denied an obvious penalty when Dean Austin tripped him . |
| 26 | Annabel Hogan 's face was set in warning lines . |
| 27 | The bid for Rowntree was set in the context of a shift in consumer preference away from ‘ slab ’ bars of chocolate towards ‘ countline ’ products ( individually wrapped chocolate snacks ) — an area in which Rowntree had great strength . |
| 28 | ‘ His body was going rigid just like it was set in concrete . |
| 29 | All of this magical garden was set in an acre of tough , fibrous grass on which a boy with a curved knife squatted on his haunches while cropping the ‘ lawns ’ . |
| 30 | John Braine 's first novel , Room at the Top ( 1957 ) , was set in his native Yorkshire , and it contrived to make even London sound cosmopolitan and far away . |