Example sentences of "set in train " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of introducing just this one gene is to switch off some genes and to set in train a sequence of gene activation so that the cell develops into a muscle cell with all the appropriate proteins — master gene is an appropriate description . |
| 2 | What these works do , or tend to do , not so much singly , perhaps , as in series , is to set in train through the sheer repetition of their demeaning view of women , for example , or their glamorisation of crime , what is known in behaviouristic terms as a process of conditioning , the ‘ drip-drip ’ effect of popular parlance . |
| 3 | As you may know the Cardinal has already taken steps to set in train a thorough investigation into the moral implications of the Law Lords ' decision . |
| 4 | What we do n't see so often , however , is an attempt ( when the characteristic is recognized by management and leadership ) to correct it , or to understand why it exists and to try to set in train processes and plans to change these undesirable attributes . |
| 5 | One of Rayner 's first acts was to set in train a series of efficiency scrutinies within Whitehall . |
| 6 | San Rafael , California-based Island Graphics Inc will no longer sell directly to resellers : this week , as a transition , it will set in train a reseller programme called Palm Partner to offer distributor-level resources , lead passing , technical support and discounts to US and Canadian resellers who buy its software through its actual distributors Access Graphics Inc , Ingram Micro Inc and Merisel Inc . |
| 7 | Ray Noorda , 67 , chief executive of Novell Inc , has given an assurance that he will set in train the process of finding a successor to run the company ‘ in the next year ’ . |
| 8 | This week , as a transition , it will set in train a reseller programme called Palm Partner to offer distributor-level resources , lead passing , technical support and discounts to US and Canadian resellers who buy Island 's software through its actual distributors Access Graphics Inc , Ingram Micro Inc and Merisel Inc . |
| 9 | ALTHOUGH few summits ever produce clear-cut decisions , the main outcome of Strasbourg could be the reshaping of the European economy in the 1990s , with a process set in train which aims to create a third homogeneous bloc to challenge the United States and Japan by the end of the century . |
| 10 | In Quebec city the same process was set in train , but later reversed . |
| 11 | As more and more stone-filled gabions were built in to reduce the erosion which the scheme had set in train , it became apparent that Pandora 's box had been opened , and that what might have worked as a piece of traditional river canalization in the cohesive sediments found downstream had proved a recipe for disaster when applied in the unstable gravels of this upland brook . |
| 12 | It was when it was disturbed — when the predator-prey ratio , or climatic changes , occurred — that events were set in train which would lead to inevitable extinction . |
| 13 | But no amount of passive resistance and bureaucratic delay could halt the process set in train by Ceauşescu in the spring of 1988 . |
| 14 | Rufus took her £40 off her by the reception desk , having set in train the arrangements by which she would be admitted to a fashionable West End clinic , with Rufus , her surgery and her hospitalization ultimately paid for by some provident association to which she and her husband subscribed . |
| 15 | In the event , however , rather than witnessing yet another religious volte face , James 's reign saw the continuation and consolidation of the ecclesiastical policies set in train by Elizabeth . |
| 16 | The unit in question , for what Telekom calls Systems Customers , is part of its Business Customers division , and was established as part of the thorough restructuring Telekom has set in train ; it serves 500 major companies and organisations , and its business is growing at 13% to 14% a year , against less than 5% overall growth from private customers in 1992 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | That has set in train a process that could , eventually , lead to sanctions against offending countries ; but that might take years , and tigers , as a species , are short of time . |
| 19 | Urban economic and political development suffered severely from the social and demographic upheaval set in train during Ivan IV 's reign . |
| 20 | If the changes set in train in Ivan the Terrible 's reign recast secular society , the impact upon the Church was no less momentous . |
| 21 | The reforms already set in train were either dropped immediately or gradually diluted , and from 1883 a period of intense reaction set in . |
| 22 | The abortive attack on Cuba at the Bay of Pigs was set in train by the Eisenhower administration and implemented by Kennedy in 1961 without Congressional approval . |
| 23 | The exchanges in the Joint Commission again ended in deadlock and this marked the termination of the discussions set in train at the Moscow conference . |
| 24 | It is also true that there may be some doubt whether the privilege against self-incrimination can be used as a shield to prevent a process being set in train ‘ which may lead to incrimination or may lead to the discovery of real evidence of an incriminating character : ’ see Sociedade National de Combustiveis de Angola U.E.E. v. Lundqvist [ 1991 ] 2 Q.B . |
| 25 | Assuming without deciding that the privilege of self-incrimination can be used to prevent a process being set in train ‘ which may lead to incrimination or the discovery of real evidence of an incriminating character ’ I consider that the defendants are sufficiently safeguarded in the circumstances of this case . |
| 26 | The complex processes set in train with such a blithe disregard of consequence and so little consideration of effect , will of course work their way out in many dimensions . |
| 27 | Careful research was set in train to discover the best way to restore gardens and historic landscape parks to their former glory . |
| 28 | Immediately after the election , however , the party in government will find it necessary and politically safe to raise unemployment in order to combat the inflation that was itself set in train by the politically engineered pre-election boom . |
| 29 | She had no reassurance to offer and he was convinced of his own responsibility because the sale to MacQuillan had set in train the events leading to Pascoe 's despair . |
| 30 | Government privatization plans , already set in train in June with the flotation of one-third of the shares in the Ibusz travel agency and the reopening of the Budapest stock exchange [ see p. 37620 ] , were framed in legislation approved by the National Assembly on Sept. 18 . |