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 . |