b. Five are of the phrase set in motion.
c. The remainder are one or two instances of set in train, set in hand, set in order, set
in a traditional mould, set in front of, set in juxtaposition to, and set in the balance.
This group of idioms comprises items for which a much larger text corpus would be
needed to see if it was justifiable to pick them out as I have done here. They all seem
common enough, and it is a slight shock to see how rare they are in a large corpus
– one has to keep in mind the extreme unlikelihood, on statistical grounds, of any of
them occurring at all.
Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
