Example sentences of "set [prep] motion " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In doing so , it set in motion a legal process , the result of which is the current Ball Pool Sponsorship Agreement . |
| 9 | Relations between Becker and the rest of the German team would appear to have deteriorated after the incident in Melbourne when , within minutes of learning that Stich and Udo Riglewski had been nominated to represent Germany in the doubles , in Barcelona , he set in motion a chain of events which led to a quick re-think . |
| 10 | It set in motion an inquiry into the truth concerning the Princess of Wales , her marriage and her life within the royal family . |
| 11 | It set in motion what we call a debris flow , a mixture of 50-ton boulders , rocks , sand and gravel bound together in a kind of slurry , which came rolling down the side canyon and dammed the river . |
| 12 | Laura was quite happy to let Deborah set in motion her improvements and chivvied her on . |
| 13 | So had the great survey of landownership in Russia which Catherine set in motion in 1765 and even the Legislative Commission of two years later . |
| 14 | On the joint initiative of France and West Germany , they also set in motion a process expected to lead by the end of 1990 to the holding of an intergovernmental conference on EC political union . |