Example sentences of "[coord] set it in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim here is to look at its political and social repercussions and to set it in the wider context of central-local administrative relations . |
| 2 | If Franz Kafka was to re-write The Trial and set it in Hampden Babylon , the novel 's alienated victim would be a goalkeeper , a solitary figure trapped between the posts , perpetually fearing the penalty . |
| 3 | The necessary conditions for the formation of sand dunes are a wide foreshore exposed at low tide so that the wind blowing over it can dry the sand and set it in motion ; something to trap the sand and cause it to start accumulating ; and plants to colonise the pile of sand and by binding it together to prevent its complete destruction by the wind or high tides . |
| 4 | Oliver corrected the clock and set it in motion . |
| 5 | And set it in men 's heads . |
| 6 | This production , which updates the play and sets it in the sixties , toured the Continent and gave our company the reputation it now enjoys there . |
| 7 | The simplest form of analogy is to change the historical setting for the event , for instance , attempting to place The Good Samaritan in a contemporary setting , or doing the reverse of this — taking some contemporary problem such as racism and setting it in past times , in a context between , say , the Jews and the Samaritans or the Greeks and the Romans . |
| 8 | Oh it was the first that ever started in Orkney , nobody ever thought You see before they used to cut their crop and set it in stokes . |
| 9 | Aye stood there and mind one halloween , the boys took it and set it in front of 's door . |