Example sentences of "setting [prep] motion [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We now are setting into motion a new system , whereby the PAs to the Head of Groups/Sectors keep copies of the Christian Aid self-certificate form and should ensure that as soon as a member of staff returns from their sick leave they fill it in . |
| 2 | If you do nothing about those feelings , the recipient will probably be totally unaware of them ; if you translate them into action , you may well be setting in motion a train of events which will cause harm and destruction , bringing as much grief to yourself as to the object of your ill-will . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Shah was setting in motion a chain of events which would lead to the bitter Wapping strike , when Murdoch took on the print unions — previously assumed to be invincible — and won . |
| 5 | It set the tone of the renewed debate which in the coming decade was to divide Western Europe even further , at the same time as setting in motion a groundswell that eventually produced the European Community . |
| 6 | Goddard ( 1983 ) , for instance , argues that education should involve setting in motion a ‘ process ’ of active development which can enable ‘ the individual child to unfold his or her unique personality ’ . |
| 7 | A method or approach to working together has been devised with the explicit intention of creating a relationship and setting in motion a process which supports the moves towards normalisation whilst still tallying with the emergence of self-advocacy . |
| 8 | Like its predecessors , it is structured around a simple thesis — in this case , that information and knowledge are setting in motion a profound shift in the nature and location of power . |
| 9 | A few months later , as Emile de Laveleye goes on to say in this essay of 1871 , the Franco-Prussian war broke out , setting in motion the sequence of European conflicts which led , ultimately , to the obliteration of the centre of Berlin in 1945 . |
| 10 | On the day that Don Peters was on his feet at the EPC meeting , fighting for the survival of the British Vehicle Division and the jobs of the fifty thousand people it employed , Fred Clasper was setting in motion the third and final stage of his scheme to sabotage any possible chance of the company 's recovery . |
| 11 | Each time he drew on the mouthpiece , setting in motion the gentle protracted gurgle , he stared into space , completely absorbed . |
| 12 | He was not setting in motion the puppets of the past to destroy them . |
| 13 | Against these spectres the OECD/IEA world ( without in all cases necessarily seeking to act collectively ) could envisage two possible lines of action : ( a ) setting in motion the IEA contingency mechanism for an ‘ emergency sharing program ’ ; and ( b ) taking military action ( e.g. on the lines of the ‘ Carter doctrine ’ ) to preempt the development of a shortage , in other words , preventing any breakdown in navigation . |