Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] set [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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