Example sentences of "set [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , Emily , I shirk my task and set as foreword to your autobiography these lines : |
| 2 | Gazza set for return |
| 3 | Leeds set for glory — Laughton |
| 4 | Widnes set for glory ! |
| 5 | London set for Highland fling |
| 6 | US and Europe set for trade war |
| 7 | Clinton set for victory amid doubts |
| 8 | Lee set for City take-over |
| 9 | Gordon set for action in a flash |
| 10 | International : Britain set for clash on £600m Euro-TV |
| 11 | Pogo gave me a lovely Mah Jong set for Christmas and ‘ I 'm just wild about ’ the game . |
| 12 | Cos I nearly thought to myself shall I have a wash and set for Christmas . |
| 13 | Wembley set for derby double |
| 14 | If you have a small bathroom , look for manufacturers that make fitted bathroom furniture , with the washbasin , toilet ( and sometimes bidet ) set into storage cupboards . |
| 15 | Barthes describes how the make-up has the ‘ snow thickness of a mask ; it is not a painted face , but one set in plaster , protected by the surface of the colour not by its lineaments ’ ( Barthes , 1973 ) ; ‘ and the eyes simply black in the strange soft flesh but not in the least expressive ’ ( ibid ) . |
| 16 | The text from the Canticle of Canticles 2:4 ordinavit in me caritatem ( he set in order charity in me ) distils imaginatively Hilton 's understanding that love can only be properly expressed through a disciplined orientation of the particular gifts and powers of the self to God . |
| 17 | Only in one respect was any real money spent on Doctor Who , and that was for the TARDIS set in Episode One , the cost of which was spread out anyway throughout the rest of the season . |
| 18 | The prospect of London 's Big Bang in October 1986 set in train a process of consolidation among banks ( British and foreign ) and City stockbrokers . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The legislation of 1861 was undoubtedly flawed , but it also set in train changes which affected most levels of Russian government and all levels of Russian society . |
| 21 | What we hope to be able to do is to complete the requirement the staff target this year and set in train some industrial studies to see what the various options are and then once we enter the production investment phase then that would be the time that we would er look to doing the development work . |
| 22 | The congress confirmed the decline in party authority when it set in place a leadership divorced as never before from the mechanisms of state and government . |
| 23 | Whenever Layton had a promotional tour or appearance , a poetry reading or a workshop ( poetry-reading in Canada predated Ginsberg 's sensation with Howl that set in motion the ‘ beat-poetry ’ style , despite Scobie arguing it as an influence on Leonard 's background ) , he would take Leonard along , acquaint him with the nuts and bolts of the business and get him to read some of his own poetry . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When Admiral James Watkins , US secretary of energy , instructed his Department of Energy ( DoE ) laboratories to clean up their heavily contaminated sites , he set in motion an elegant synergy that is leading to new ways of destroying pollutants . |
| 26 | The ICS , as a body , had never been much taken with political reform , sensing correctly that it set in motion a process whereby they could expect only to be replaced , and both reason and sentiment told them that this would never do . |
| 27 | At the last conference , Neil Kinnock set in motion a plan to institute a National Policy Forum , which would meet four times a year , and produce a two-year rolling review of policy to be ( if all went well ) rubber-stamped by the annual conference . |
| 28 | The eclipses of May 21 , June 4 and November 29 set in motion changes that could put you in a new professional space by 1994 , if not before . |
| 29 | The creation therefore is not like some frictionless machine , which once set in motion carries on until stopped , but something which is dependent on the continuing work of its Creator . |
| 30 | In doing so , it set in motion a legal process , the result of which is the current Ball Pool Sponsorship Agreement . |