Example sentences of "[adv] set [prep] [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although some developers provide low cost or rented housing within their schemes , the majority of housing is aimed at the upper end of the market thus setting in motion a house price spiral which effectively freezes the locals out of home ownership . |
| 2 | Preston 's preference for two wingers allowed Bay to clamp the midfield , and they soon set in motion a stream of direct attacks of surprising accuracy . |
| 3 | Constitutional amendments formally to set in place a multiparty system were still pending , however : they were passed unanimously by the Federal Chamber on Aug. 8 , and it was hoped to secure the necessary ratification by the assemblies of the republics and provinces by Sept. 20 . |
| 4 | Awaited since the Communist Party ( CPSU ) renounced its constitutionally guaranteed " leading role " in March , the law formally set in place a multiparty system . |
| 5 | For instance , maternal psychiatric disorder may have a deleterious effect on the mother-child relationship not serious enough to produce a disorder in the child , but may also set in motion a chain of other , more powerful adverse events . |
| 6 | On the joint initiative of France and West Germany , they also set in motion a process expected to lead by the end of 1990 to the holding of an intergovernmental conference on EC political union . |
| 7 | By raising the question of the Holy Places the French President not only gained ground at home but also set in train a long-term policy . |
| 8 | I am about to set in motion a peculiar process that will result in a $10 million loan to a Philippine construction company , a bedfellow of the Marcos clan — a loan that will soon go sour . |
| 9 | It then sets in train a labour process in the realm of production ( P ) . |