Example sentences of "set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We have also attempted to set down priorities for the Council . |
| 32 | And that in fact is headed by erm a summary table erm which attempts to set down on p one piece of paper , where the differences erm erm lie . |
| 33 | The problem is that Charles is being harried into an early grave by the burden he 's unable to set down . ’ |
| 34 | Students of the British public sector have attempted to set down the ‘ typical ’ features of industrial relations in nationalized industries . |
| 35 | There were mediaeval chroniclers , working from monasteries and sometimes from the courts , and those chroniclers were producing history which was an attempt as it were to set down what seemed to them to be the most important things that were happening at the time , with a few asides . |
| 36 | ‘ Senility is known to set in a good deal earlier in many cases . ’ |
| 37 | In Ireland , ‘ good morning ’ lasts until two o'clock in the afternoon , and then becomes ‘ good evening ’ until five , when ‘ good night ’ starts to set in . |
| 38 | These complications are only likely to set in if the infection has been present for some time , and this is only likely to happen if the infection is an asymptomatic one . |
| 39 | I could also pick his feet out and deal with the foot-rot which was starting to set in . |
| 40 | But disappointment began to set in by the time the ballot boxes had been emptied , and when the second stage of the count began , at 12.45 a.m. , it soon became clear that it would be a two-horse race . |
| 41 | Also , the rate of use in public libraries is generally higher , so that physical dilapidation of stock is more likely to set in , and oblige staff to weed . |
| 42 | But as the plaster hardened and the doctor attached two metal struts from her ‘ halo ’ to the jacket , panic began to set in . |
| 43 | NOW that the worst of winter is about to set in , there 's no better way to while away those long , dark evenings than curled up by the fire with a good book . |
| 44 | In opposition , they likewise shifted right ( Britain ) or , if they started nearer the centre ( Germany ) , just waited for the inevitable disillusionment with conservatism to set in . |
| 45 | To be sure it is a little difficult to be certain how big " large " has to be before this behaviour sets in — indeed it was emphasised by Bohr and his friends that the line could be drawn at different places along the chain — but somewhere this classical behaviour had to set in to make measurement possible . |
| 46 | There is , buried in some agencies ' archives , material — usually based either on reading and noting research ( see page 100 ) or on direct response returns — which shows rather clearly that over a certain size — somewhere around 35 cm × 6 cols in a broadsheet newspaper — diminishing returns begin to set in . |
| 47 | No , I told myself , as panic tried to set in . |
| 48 | According to Dr Richard Earle , director of the IOS , accelerated ageing is most likely to set in between 40 and 50 , with women ageing faster during this decade than men ( an average of eighteen years compared to fifteen ) . |
| 49 | As winter really begins to set in , flowers are not the most obvious things to look for , and so the curious botanist turns to related interests . |
| 50 | Again she looked at him , almost resentful now ; a reaction to the fight beginning to set in . |
| 51 | After all the excitement of a major event a time of exhaustion and deflation tends to set in when it is over . |
| 52 | An irrational panic started to set in . |
| 53 | The only trouble there though , she realised , as despondency tried to set in again , was that , apart from actually being in the delightful spa town of Mariánské Láznë , and actually being here in Czechoslovakia , a country she had wanted to visit , there was no other bright side . |
| 54 | Because when the boredom begins to set in as you lie motionless under the sun , you can do your exercises then ! |
| 55 | As promised , one of the project workers gave me an early shake and I had time enough for a coffee before I needed to set off to meet Jenny . |
| 56 | Some work on electronic beams , while others are activated by air movement — just opening the door can be enough to set off this type . |
| 57 | She looked as if she were about to set off for a provincial cocktail party , an office party of female executives . |
| 58 | After my four days Ken was to set off on his own curtailed family holiday . |
| 59 | To set off the blues , I used white Shasta daisies , white bergenias and the silver foliage of pearly everlasting , Anaphalis cinnamomea . |
| 60 | In the summer , blues and pinks predominate but there are always plenty of white flowers , especially the white forms of cosmos and Campanula persicifolia , to set off the other colours . |