Example sentences of "set [prep] motion the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The analogy was an apt one , for the book helped to set in motion the new movement which came to be known as Dialectical Theology , and whose leading lights , apart from Barth himself , were Brunner , Bultmann and Gogarten . |
| 2 | Such arbitrage fails to set in motion the competitive forces that normally close such openings in a market economy . |
| 3 | The Teutonic Knights had indeed penetrated eastwards , but their influence , when it was not military , had been to spread a lifestyle and set of material , cultural and linguistic bearings rather than set in motion the bodily removal and resettlement of vast numbers of Germans . |
| 4 | It was inspired by the report of the Edinburgh Missionary Conference of 1910 , which set in motion the new ecumenical movement among the Christian Churches . |
| 5 | Also , as West European capitalism filtered across Germany and set in motion the inevitable homogenisation of markets and language within the customs union , the reaction of the Polish subject people , who were after all not the primary , nor even secondary , beneficiaries of capitalist modes of production and the spread of profit , and who had behind them a different set of cultural and political orientations , was similar to that of the Germans . |
| 6 | Each time he drew on the mouthpiece , setting in motion the gentle protracted gurgle , he stared into space , completely absorbed . |
| 7 | 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 . |