Example sentences of "the [noun] set in " in BNC.

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1 The attitudes set in late Victorian times can be traced in British industry right through into our period .
2 The news came as a crushing blow to the cast and production team on the £10million set in Spain who had hoped for a reprieve after a recent upturn in viewing figures .
3 The news came as a crushing blow to the cast and production team on the £10million set in Spain who had hoped for a reprieve after a recent upturn in viewing figures .
4 This action by the creditor set in motion the issuing , by the clerk , of a writ or summons which was formally delivered to an officer of the Chief Bailiff who served it on the defendant at his house .
5 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 .
6 In this way the patterns set in the boom left their imprint firmly on the years of mass unemployment which followed .
7 The decision set in motion a chain reaction that was to become an international phenomenon — hundreds of shops , all a mirror image of her original concept no matter where in the world they are located .
8 In contradiction to Mr Linfield 's opinion as expressed in his letter , I believe the policies set in place resulted in procedures that all librarians now , working in multi-cultural communities , would consider quite reasonable and normal .
9 And when Cardiff looked at the upside-down dead eyes of that head as they reflected in the torchlight , when he saw the teeth set in a clenched and hideous grin … he recognised the face immediately .
10 If we wish to add a new value , then we search for that node which is the lowest level of the index set in which it belongs .
11 He plays David Jason 's son Kenny in the play set in Liverpool during the war and concerning a group of dockers who try to hide gold bullion from the Germans .
12 A new Sustainable Development Commission , subject to approval by the UN General Assembly , would monitor progress towards the goals set in Rio .
13 Yet , despite inheriting a successful re-heat design under construction at Dunston ( Tyne and Wear ) on nationalisation , the CEB engineers doubted the operational flexibility of the re-heat sets in meeting the more variable load on the British Grid .
14 By contrast , the bird mentioned in ( 19 ) must be one selected from a group present to the mind of the speaker in the situation of utterance ; this adjective can not be non-restrictive : ( 19 ) the largest parrot made a good supper for the expedition that evening The extraction set in this case might be the parrots we had shot that day .
15 As a little compensation I begged Captain King to let us remove either to Bruny , or to Muscle Bay , which would make very little difference when once the wind set in fair , and it was accordingly settled that at daylight we should sail for Muscle Bay . ’
16 He surely recollects the precedents set in the steel and coal industries , in which the Community was involved in Europewide initiatives to limit the impact of the decline in demand for the products of the companies concerned .
17 One episode with disasters aplenty was Episode Four of ‘ The Keys of Marinus ’ , the episode set in the polar regions of that planet .
18 European eyes are fixed on the first of these figures : public spending that is now shooting through the ceiling set in the EC 's self-denying ordinance of 1988 .
19 High levels of production , estimated at between 400,000 and 800,000 bpd above the ceiling set in July , continued throughout December amid increasing prospects of a Gulf war .
20 She handed Jack the syringe with the long needle , and he slid it neatly between the ribs and into the heart while Kath injected the other drugs into the giving set in his arm .
21 Here some of the assembled company sat watching the sun set in rosy Technicolor behind a jagged peak .
22 The sun set in front of her .
23 One evening after the kind of soft autumnal day that is an echo of the summer gone , when the sun sets in the western sky to cast great pinks ant reds across its distant clouds , Creggan was peaceful at his stance , dreaming of his own homesite .
24 But no amount of passive resistance and bureaucratic delay could halt the process set in train by Ceauşescu in the spring of 1988 .
25 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 .
26 They echo the theme set in last year 's CBI Business Agenda for the 1990s with the emphasis on controlling inflation , public spending , strengthening the Department of Trade & Industry and giving it responsibility for the National Economic Development Council and opposing a national minimum wage .
27 While we have more or less maintained our overall membership figure , and that in a deep recession , we have fallen far short of the targets set in March 1992 , which were felt at that time to be reasonable and achievable .
28 While we have more or less maintained our overall membership figure , and that in a deep recession , we have fallen far short of the targets set in March 1992 , which were felt at that time to be reasonable and achievable .
29 In fact the rot set in 15 years ago when Dr Coggan asked for a meeting with Jim Callaghan to lobby for the Church to be exempted from a two per cent surcharge on employers ' National Insurance contributions .
30 In Chapter 6 we shall find that it is a matter of perplexity where along the chain the fixity sets in which determines a particular result on a particular occasion .
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