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 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Furthermore , I have also set in motion several of my own initiatives as well as sponsoring the suggestions of a couple of other departments . |
| 23 | 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 . |