Example sentences of "set [prep] motion the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such arbitrage fails to set in motion the competitive forces that normally close such openings in a market economy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The magistrate decided whether to try a case summarily or to set in motion the process of committing it to a superior court . |
| 4 | Sauron is defeated and his Ring taken by Isildur , only to set in motion the crisis at the end of the Third Age . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Teutonic Knights had indeed penetrated eastwards , but their influence , when it was not military , had been to spread a lifestyle and set of material , cultural and linguistic bearings rather than set in motion the bodily removal and resettlement of vast numbers of Germans . |
| 7 | The lion 's share of the braking is done in a straight line but the time comes when the rider must set in motion the chain of events which will take him through the corner . |
| 8 | It was inspired by the report of the Edinburgh Missionary Conference of 1910 , which set in motion the new ecumenical movement among the Christian Churches . |
| 9 | Under the terms of my statement to the House of 26 March 1991 , which set in motion the talks that we held , it is open to any party to raise any issues — including constitutional issues — that it considers relevant . |
| 10 | It was then that the pioneers of modern travel set in motion the age of travel in which we are so lucky to live . |
| 11 | Also , as West European capitalism filtered across Germany and set in motion the inevitable homogenisation of markets and language within the customs union , the reaction of the Polish subject people , who were after all not the primary , nor even secondary , beneficiaries of capitalist modes of production and the spread of profit , and who had behind them a different set of cultural and political orientations , was similar to that of the Germans . |
| 12 | This action by the creditor set in motion the issuing , by the clerk , of a writ or summons which was formally delivered to an officer of the Chief Bailiff who served it on the defendant at his house . |
| 13 | It was here that , at the Competition for the Crown forty-two years before , Edward the First of England had met the Scots magnates and set in motion the actions which ultimately led to the Wars of Independence . |
| 14 | The 1967 law of military service , which reduced the term of conscription from three years to two ( and from four years to three in the Navy and Air Forces ) at the same time set in motion the expansion of an already considerable effort at pre-conscription and para-military training : between 1967–1972 the budget of the para-military training organisation , DOSAAF ( Voluntary Society for Assistance to the Army , Air Force and Navy ) underwent a threefold increase . |
| 15 | Given Mancini 's scenario , their role is clear : they selfishly overturned Edward 's wishes and set in motion the train of events which led directly to Edward V 's deposition . |
| 16 | Presumably he had already set in motion the machinery which next month would array a large army under his command , but when he approached Limoges he still had only a few men with him . |
| 17 | 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 ] . |
| 18 | During January courts set in motion the process of liquidating the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) , which had been closed in July 1991 after evidence of massive fraud was revealed [ see pp. 38355 ; 38545 ] . |
| 19 | And that 's when I waved at the Guards major Nogin and set in motion the arrest of Ralph Pike . |
| 20 | Given Mancini 's scenario , their role is clear : they selfishly overturned Edward 's wishes and set in motion the train of events which led directly to Edward V 's deposition . |
| 21 | A few months later , as Emile de Laveleye goes on to say in this essay of 1871 , the Franco-Prussian war broke out , setting in motion the sequence of European conflicts which led , ultimately , to the obliteration of the centre of Berlin in 1945 . |
| 22 | On the day that Don Peters was on his feet at the EPC meeting , fighting for the survival of the British Vehicle Division and the jobs of the fifty thousand people it employed , Fred Clasper was setting in motion the third and final stage of his scheme to sabotage any possible chance of the company 's recovery . |
| 23 | Each time he drew on the mouthpiece , setting in motion the gentle protracted gurgle , he stared into space , completely absorbed . |
| 24 | He was not setting in motion the puppets of the past to destroy them . |
| 25 | Against these spectres the OECD/IEA world ( without in all cases necessarily seeking to act collectively ) could envisage two possible lines of action : ( a ) setting in motion the IEA contingency mechanism for an ‘ emergency sharing program ’ ; and ( b ) taking military action ( e.g. on the lines of the ‘ Carter doctrine ’ ) to preempt the development of a shortage , in other words , preventing any breakdown in navigation . |
| 26 | Whenever Layton had a promotional tour or appearance , a poetry reading or a workshop ( poetry-reading in Canada predated Ginsberg 's sensation with Howl that set in motion the ‘ beat-poetry ’ style , despite Scobie arguing it as an influence on Leonard 's background ) , he would take Leonard along , acquaint him with the nuts and bolts of the business and get him to read some of his own poetry . |