Example sentences of "set in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second story is set in and around a country hotel , where the wife of a coarse doctor takes a more than kindly interest in a Klima wide-awake to the sights and sounds of this paradise . |
| 2 | Inevitably , a sort of bunker mentality quickly set in . |
| 3 | Clearly some deterioration has set in . ’ |
| 4 | With the strain of listening for the slightest sound a desperate tiredness had set in and I was having to force myself to stay awake . |
| 5 | You 'll have to sooner or later and I reckon this storm 's set in for hours . |
| 6 | Once this alienation had set in , it was inevitable that , as in our day , the loved one should come to be regarded — at least by the conscious mind — as no more than a body to be disposed of as quickly and hygienically as possible . |
| 7 | And for the mass of the petty bourgeoisie , which had from the beginning provided a backbone of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ , the period when , materially , the Third Reich turned to unmitigated disaster only seems to have set in from 1942 onwards . |
| 8 | Near panic had set in when Tass news agency quoted a woman who had just arrived in Novgorod , near St Petersburg , as saying that she had fled Kyrgyzstan a few days before the ‘ evictions ’ were to begin . |
| 9 | Cultural rot has set in . ’ |
| 10 | There would be compensation payments , of course , but after Chernobyl the doubts had set in . |
| 11 | Then the immigrant purchases a large tract of land , and farms it without any expenditure on soil conservation , often without chemical or organic fertiliser , until yields have declined and degradation or erosion has set in . |
| 12 | The other symptoms that may give clues to the presence of gonococcal infection in the woman are mostly produced when complications , such as involvement of the fallopian tubes , have set in . |
| 13 | In post-war years , from a maximum of 58 million passengers in 1950 , a steady decline has set in , so that 30 years later the annual total was only 8½ million . |
| 14 | He went to bed , but it was too late — pneumonia had set in . |
| 15 | By the time the Scotland team had arrived at the Sierras hotel in Alta Gracia the rot had set in . |
| 16 | Rain had set in after the heatwave and there was an infestation of jelly fishes in the Moray Firth . |
| 17 | These are small boas which , if molested , first coil themselves up tightly , then release a foul-smelling fluid from special glands , giving the impression that they are rotting and that advanced putrefaction has already set in . |
| 18 | The actual economic situation in Europe in 1918–20 clearly shows that this period of collapse has set in and that the old system of relations of production shows no signs of revival . |
| 19 | Putrefaction had set in around the nose and mouth , the skin felt cold and soggy as Corbett gently turned the head to look at the fatal weal round the neck , a broad , purple black gash with little round indentations which made it look like some ghostly parody of a necklace . |
| 20 | After his first flush of self-congratulation for seducing someone who held such power in the hospital hierarchy , doubts had quickly set in . |
| 21 | General bewilderment had set in by this year 's quarter-final stage , by which point most of the big names — Toulouse , Racing , Agen , Narbonne and Béziers — had fallen by the wayside . |
| 22 | A thaw has set in and clerk of the course Ian Renton reports racing will definitely go ahead . |
| 23 | Instead , the siege mentality towards the accompanying press party , that has wrecked morale on previous tours , notably the 1986 trip to the West Indies , has set in again with a vengeance . |
| 24 | Panic has set in as the league 's Draconian restructuring unfolds with four clubs relegated from Division One and seven from Division Two . |
| 25 | The first proof that the rot had set in at the Midland was the full disclosure of its profits and reserves in 1969 . |
| 26 | And once decline has set in , it is hard to reverse . |
| 27 | The attitude of the airport guard , and the careless banter of the cab driver were both a sign of the times and the rot which seemed to have set in . |
| 28 | His kidneys were diseased but cirrhosis of the liver had not yet set in . |
| 29 | By now your legs should be dropping hints about their preferences and if tiredness really has set in , the last top , Sgurr na Moraich , can be avoided by descending to the glen from the final col . |
| 30 | The fog had not set in at that time , late afternoon , and the dockers were able to describe the men as respectable-looking young gents in peaked caps . |