Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] set in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because we are outraged by the conflict in Yugoslavia today , we should be ready for similar things to happen elsewhere in Europe unless we ensure that we set in place institutions to prevent them . |
| 2 | So , a story set in contemporary Britain is likely to be easier ( for British pupils ) than one set in a different period of history or in a different culture or environment . |
| 3 | Melt the remaining 3 oz. of clarified butter and pour it , tepid , over the tongue paste , so that it sets in a sealing layer about one eighth of an inch thick . |
| 4 | The ICS , as a body , had never been much taken with political reform , sensing correctly that it set in motion a process whereby they could expect only to be replaced , and both reason and sentiment told them that this would never do . |
| 5 | From the foregoing work that Tim Grant and I set in motion I believe that we have gained certain value . |
| 6 | Civilization had to be more than a mere confluence of economic interests : ‘ And until we set in order our own crazy economic and financial systems , to say nothing of our philosophy of life , can we be sure that our helping hands to the barbarian and the savage will be any more desirable than the embrace of the leper ? ’ |
| 7 | Barthes describes how the make-up has the ‘ snow thickness of a mask ; it is not a painted face , but one set in plaster , protected by the surface of the colour not by its lineaments ’ ( Barthes , 1973 ) ; ‘ and the eyes simply black in the strange soft flesh but not in the least expressive ’ ( ibid ) . |
| 8 | The congress confirmed the decline in party authority when it set in place a leadership divorced as never before from the mechanisms of state and government . |