Example sentences of "[be] set [prep] motion " in BNC.
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| 1 | This should have satisfied the students , but it was too little , too late ; a course of action had been set into motion which was difficult to reverse . |
| 2 | The wheels have already been set in motion . |
| 3 | Plans to rebuild the Foreign Office appear to have been set in motion with the discovery of the poor state of the building and complaints from Palmerston that it was too small and had no rooms suitable for banquets and receptions . |
| 4 | This posed the question : if capitalist equilibrium had been disrupted beyond recall and expanded negative reproduction had been set in motion , how was a new socialist equilibrium to be brought into being ? |
| 5 | The first stage of this initiative is to computerise the existing procedures using conventional techniques and this has been set in motion . |
| 6 | Similar plans have been set in motion in Bendel , Gongola , Oyo and elsewhere . |
| 7 | GUIL : Wheels have been set in motion , and they have their own pace , to which we are … condemned . |
| 8 | An A$970,000,0000 ( US$748,000,000 ) rescue operation by the state government had been set in motion before the announcement , which followed on from the collapse of the merchant banking section of the State Bank of Victoria in August 1990 [ see p. 37658 ] and that of Western Australia 's Rothwells merchant bank in November 1988 [ see p. 37920 ] . |
| 9 | The process had been set in motion on March 15 with the handing over of border crossings to units of a newly formed Macedonian army . |
| 10 | Our various committees are aware of this situation and plans to rectify this have been set in motion . |
| 11 | When Maurice arrives as an unexpected guest , strange events are set in motion — a murder occurs , and a ghost appears ! |
| 12 | With awareness of what is wrong , the corrective forces of democracy are set in motion . |
| 13 | It is hoped that a full scale project will be set in motion at a later date but , because it is primarily operational in nature and the expert system is only a part , it is now being sponsored by the Operations Branches . |
| 14 | He hoped that the tightly packed deuterium atoms would be set in motion , their nuclei bumping into one another and fusing . |
| 15 | If he had hoped for a gentle introduction to the life of the School , he was soon to be disappointed , for 1978 was to be the year in which far-reaching changes were to be set in motion . |
| 16 | When the right of control and transfer is conveyed , the holder relies on the same method of notification by which he was made a holder , except that he will be the initiator of the message to the carrier , and will need to await the carrier 's confirmation before the transfer process can be set in motion . |
| 17 | If this party is represented in parliament by a member of the Parliamentary Labour Party , the procedure set out in section ( 3 ) of this clause ( for the selection of a prospective parliamentary candidate ) shall be set in motion not later than thirty-six months after the last time the said Member of Parliament was elected . |
| 18 | Where a member of the Parliamentary Labour Party is representing this party in parliament for the first time the above ( normal ) procedure shall be set in motion not earlier than eighteen months after his or her election as Member of Parliament . |
| 19 | The United Nations plan for independence will be set in motion from the beginning of this month , starting with a ceasefire between SWAPO and South Africa . |
| 20 | If you do nothing about those feelings , the recipient will probably be totally unaware of them ; if you translate them into action , you may well be setting in motion a train of events which will cause harm and destruction , bringing as much grief to yourself as to the object of your ill-will . |
| 21 | That was part of the trouble , that was how it was that events were set in motion . |
| 22 | Preparations were set in motion to introduce by the end of the year a much shorter " core " list of restricted items , affecting only 30-50 per cent of the 116 items on the current list . |
| 23 | These were set in motion once fighting began and were kept in effect despite falls in prices . |
| 24 | As the Serpent is , cosmologically , the symbol of the creative energizing force of the Supreme Spirit , the Swastika is representative of the life-force being set in motion to initiate the cyclic processes of nature . |
| 25 | ( I ) The desirability of contesting the constituency for parliament shall be considered by the Executive Committee of this party in consultation with the National Executive Committee or its officers prior to the procedure laid down in this clause being set in motion . |
| 26 | We now are setting into motion a new system , whereby the PAs to the Head of Groups/Sectors keep copies of the Christian Aid self-certificate form and should ensure that as soon as a member of staff returns from their sick leave they fill it in . |
| 27 | Like its predecessors , it is structured around a simple thesis — in this case , that information and knowledge are setting in motion a profound shift in the nature and location of power . |
| 28 | What the defendant has done is to set in motion a chain of events . |
| 29 | Thus , Bukharin argued , if total unproductive consumption is greater than the total surplus product/value regression is set in motion . |
| 30 | And once this kind of polarization is set in motion , it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy in which everyone who is not with us is against us . |