Example sentences of "[pron] set in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jenny came in with some flowers from the garden which she set in small posy bowls down the centre and James took the pink lustre candlesticks from the mantelpiece and set them among the flowers . |
| 2 | But this win was all about tactics , not times , and the way she demolished a field including two women who have beaten Liz McColgan in major championships — Elly Van Hulst ( who still holds the world record she set in taking the 1989 title ) and Lyn Jennings , the world cross-country champion for the last two years — must have whetted her appetite for Stuttgart and the ‘ real ’ world championships in August . |
| 3 | Before the death there were up to 15 dogs in the house , as the family 's bitch produced two litters which were both kept — one set in the kitchen , and the other in a bedroom . |
| 4 | While all this good fortune unfolded , Seth said he was hard at work on his next novel , Mambo Mephiste , this one set in New Orleans . |
| 5 | So , a story set in contemporary Britain is likely to be easier ( for British pupils ) than one set in a different period of history or in a different culture or environment . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're in that early-evening soap opera , are n't you — the one set in a hospital ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He embarked soon after on his long verse-tragedy Osorio , a story ‘ romantic & wild & somewhat terrible ’ , which he set in Spain at the time of the Inquisition , but which was to draw , at least to a small extent , on his Quantock and Exmoor wanderings of the next few months . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In doing so , it set in motion a legal process , the result of which is the current Ball Pool Sponsorship Agreement . |
| 14 | It set in motion an inquiry into the truth concerning the Princess of Wales , her marriage and her life within the royal family . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We needed to alternate between the past and the future , and while we had two good historical scripts in , none of the writers David had commissioned had yet produced anything set in the future which we could use . |