Example sentences of "set in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Senility is known to set in a good deal earlier in many cases . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I could also pick his feet out and deal with the foot-rot which was starting to set in . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But as the plaster hardened and the doctor attached two metal struts from her ‘ halo ’ to the jacket , panic began to set in . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | No , I told myself , as panic tried to set in . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Again she looked at him , almost resentful now ; a reaction to the fight beginning to set in . |
| 16 | After all the excitement of a major event a time of exhaustion and deflation tends to set in when it is over . |
| 17 | An irrational panic started to set in . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Because when the boredom begins to set in as you lie motionless under the sun , you can do your exercises then ! |
| 20 | Root crops for storage are best left in the ground for as long as possible , provided they are dug up before severe frosts set in . |
| 21 | Depression has now set in . |
| 22 | The literary ‘ thaw ’ which set in after the secret speech was now going too fast for him , as he admits in his memoirs : . |
| 23 | The loss of confidence which set in after Stalingrad was not least a consequence of the totally misleading and outrightly mendacious German propaganda which had preceded the catastrophe . |
| 24 | It was squarely concluded that Hitler , through the over-estimation of his own strength and rejection of all overtures for peace from neutral states , ‘ bears himself in the last resort the blame for the retrograde development which has now set in ’ . |
| 25 | However , where blacks had no viable method of expressing nationalism when disillusion with the achievements of civil rights set in , Catholics could revert to a nationalism which already shaped much of their previous experience . |
| 26 | Most players are baffled by the animosity that set in between Morgan and Docherty , although one former . |
| 27 | The normal symptoms are pneumonia and bronchitis , but occasionally severe reactions set in , resembling those seen in Spain . |
| 28 | Try to finish tidying borders before the worst of the frosts set in . |
| 29 | A SHROUD , is composed of a peculiar kind of flannel , woven on purpose , and called shrouding flannel ; it is made of a breadth and a half , full length , so as to cover the feet ; one seam is sewed up , leaving the other open behind , like a pinafore ; slits are cut for arm-holes , and plain long sleeves , without gussets set in ; the front is gathered at the waist , and drawn up into a narrow piece ; this is twice repeated , at intervals of three nails down the skirt , upon each of these gatherings , round the neck and at the wrists , a kind of border of the same flannel , punched at the edge in a pattern , is plaited , and an edging of the same is made at the bottom . |
| 30 | AS THE END of the 1992 airshow season rapidly approaches , there are still a few events worthy of a visit before winter and the withdrawal symptoms set in ! |