Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two nuclei — of sperm and ovum — move together and fuse into one nucleus which holds both sets of chromosomes , 46 in all , with two sex chromosomes . |
| 2 | The Dutch cabinet has now set in train sale to the public of a majority stake in the state phone company , Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV , starting next year . |
| 3 | A period of sharing your home is sometimes healthy , because it teaches you to be more adaptable and stops you from becoming too set in your ways . |
| 4 | How could he change his life , which seemed irretrievably set on a course of obscurity ? |
| 5 | This allows both sets of points to be placed in the ice to give more support ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 6 | Salisbury , an eager nightwatchman , held out against some torrid deliveries midst some frantic appealing , and all seemed well set for a gripping fourth and fifth day . |
| 7 | It is hoped to issue further sets from time to time . |
| 8 | One slight disappointment is in the fret finishing : the frets seem properly set into the fingerboard but some of the ends on the treble side are sitting ( or have lifted ) slightly off the fingerboard , allowing the top E to occasionally catch underneath them . |
| 9 | You wo n't sink into this sort of flooring but it has a neat appearance and will pull together a disparate collection of furniture and styles and make a roomful of old things look firmly set in the twentieth century . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're getting too set in your ways , you know . |
| 11 | This will not be achieved by promulgating definitions , but by developing research which investigates both sets of phenomena , looking for similarities and differences . |
| 12 | And perhaps this is just as well , for were it not so , and were we to believe that personality became irreversibly set in the first two ( or three , or five ) years of life we should have to believe , first , that any child harmed then was beyond help and thus clinically not worth bothering about ; and , second , that children in later years were not vulnerable and that experience then was of no consequence . |
| 13 | Its finest episodes are the central ‘ Dirge ’ ( sung by Brian Rayner Cook a little insecurely ) which is a memorial to Parry 's brother- in-law , who died at 45 while this work was being written , and the subsequent chorus ‘ Man , born of desire ’ ( which Holst also set in his Choral Fantasia ) . |
| 14 | Rot had already set into the damp wood and she was able to break chunks off the strut as though they were bits of soggy cardboard . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Allocation determines which arcs in the network will be allocated to a particular node or centre ; districting makes it possible to outline rapidly sets of polygons in order to define specific areas of interest ( districts ) and to summarize their characteristics ; routeing provides a minimum path algorithm through the network , the arcs of which can be assigned weights according to road conditions , road capacity and so on . |
| 17 | A new lobby has been constructed deliberately set at an angle to the older part of the building , as an aid to disguising the ‘ join ’ between the two sections . |
| 18 | It seems to have been the tenth raid which did the greatest damage , when the ‘ sea island , with its H-jetty was hit and a Korean tanker loading there set on fire . |
| 19 | Such may possibly have been the motive behind the creation of the muftilik of Cyprus , but the case for the argument seems stronger in isolation than it does when set against the fact that by 979/1571 the creation of such joint muderris/muftiliks appears to have become quite a common practice . |
| 20 | Bringing food , fuel and raw materials canals allowed inland towns to burst through the bounds which transport limitations had previously set to their growth and specialisation . |
| 21 | Oracle and Sybase have already set in motion plans for parallel-enabled versions of their respective database engines , and other players are expected to follow suit . |
| 22 | In all of this , the Library recognises that it can only advance in the closest possible cooperation and consultation with those organisations , most notably university departments and university libraries , which have already set in place the academic and technological infrastructure to which we hope to make an increasingly useful contribution . |
| 23 | Furthermore , I have also set in motion several of my own initiatives as well as sponsoring the suggestions of a couple of other departments . |
| 24 | These developments have inevitably set in motion yet another of those educational bandwagons which most teachers have by now learned to view with extreme caution . |
| 25 | I mean it 's as simple as that , and I Colonel 's comments , saying how hard done by Wiltshire police constabulary could be next year because we have n't set over the odds budget for this year so that the Home Secretary can take it on . |