Example sentences of "[verb] [be] set in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first stage of this initiative is to computerise the existing procedures using conventional techniques and this has been set in motion . |
| 2 | If God created primitive living things like plants for animals to eat ( do plants have theos rights ? ) , then why should He not have created more complex but still primitive beings which kill each other and may be eaten by man who has been set in dominion over all else ? |
| 3 | The argument for a more comprehensive approach to work organization has been set in a new context by developments in product markets , trading conditions and manufacturing technology in the 1980s . |
| 4 | It is a devastating kick and one that is quite difficult to control once the foot has been set in its downward , attacking motion . |
| 5 | If the hon. Gentleman had listened the last time we had Home Office questions he would know perfectly well that the standard spending assessment has been set in West Yorkshire to enable it to employ police officers up to the full establishment . |
| 6 | " The second phase of EMU will start on Jan. 1 , 1994 , after ( i ) the single market programme has been achieved ; and ( ii ) the treaty has been ratified , and by its provisions : ( a ) a process has been set in train designed to ensure the independence of the members of the new monetary institution at the latest when monetary powers have been transferred ; ( b ) the monetary financing of budget deficits has been prohibited and any responsibility on the part of the Community or its member states for one member state 's debt been precluded ; and ( c ) the greatest possible number of member states have adhered to the ERM . |
| 7 | This call follows the LIFESPAN DC access rules which restricts access to a DC ( unless the optional switch has been set in the configuration file ) to the associated DC user or an interested user ( i.e. the manager of any modules on the DC or the manager of packages containing one or more of these modules ) or , if applicable , the nominated approver of the package via which the DC has been activated . |
| 8 | A new world record has been set in the Central South region . |
| 9 | What the defendant has done is to set in motion a chain of events . |
| 10 | A Bible passage that I sometimes imagine might have been set in a school playground ( or assembly hall ) is found in Matthew 9:37–38 . |
| 11 | The stacks of plates were put beside them , and the bowls of coleslaw , potato salad and other food that did not need cooking were set in place . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Ken most of the folk hereabouts ? ’ demanded the customer , uncorking the bottle with his teeth and filling the grubby glass that had been set in front of him . |
| 14 | The play had been set in a military hospital in England in 1944 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | The ground rules had been set in Australia , but the ground had changed , and It had come into existence . |
| 17 | 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 ] . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A speaker had been set in one of the trees , like some modernistic bird's-nest , and Sara noticed the long snaky trail of the cable connecting it with the hi-fi in the house . |
| 20 | A table for two had been set in a sort of bower beneath a canopy of spreading palms . |
| 21 | He said children playing at the scene had been warned to stay away from the posts until they had been set in concrete . |
| 22 | You 've been set in a certain class and no matter how your opinions change and you want to throw that class off , if ever a man does , it wo n't let him , it 's there in his voice , in his manner ; even if a gentleman was to take to the road he 'd still be a gentleman ; I mean , according to the kind of education he 's received , so to my mind that has become a kind of cage . |
| 23 | This makes the precedents that have been set in America important to anyone who is interested in playing the market . |
| 24 | Also standardisation of interpretation can be ensured if objectives have been set in terms of a specific number of faults . |
| 25 | Fifteen imitation Victorian gas lamps have been set in tarmac to line the royal party 's route . |
| 26 | Similar plans have been set in motion in Bendel , Gongola , Oyo and elsewhere . |
| 27 | GUIL : Wheels have been set in motion , and they have their own pace , to which we are … condemned . |
| 28 | Our various committees are aware of this situation and plans to rectify this have been set in motion . |
| 29 | Nevertheless the evidence available , partial and fragmentary though it is , suggests that the structural incentives which have been set in place are starting to operate in the way they were intended and present opportunities to make services more responsive to consumers and more appropriate to local needs . |
| 30 | Tough targets have been set in quality and service levels and everyone has had to adapt to new ways of doing things . |