Sentence examples for had become set from inspiring English sources

The defeat led to a realisation among the senior management that Sky had become set in their ways after three successful years.

Ms Vadera's e-mails reveal that the Treasury had become set on gaining control of the company's operations without paying anything to the small shareholders who had been encouraged to invest by the previous government.If "the grannies lose their blouses", Ms Vadera cynically observed, it wouldn't matter: they were only "shareholders who had added no value to the company".

Joyce Marlow wrote that Boycott had become set in his mode of thought, and that his twenty years on Achill had "strengthened his innate belief in the divine right of the masters, and the tendency to behave as he saw fit, without regard to other people's point of view or feelings".

In some ways, Mr. Vance is facing natural growing pains associated with the office he inherited: his predecessor, Robert M. Morgenthau, held the post for three and a half decades, and many prosecutors have become set in their ways of doing things.

Bird complains that Downing Street advisers have become set in their ways and uninterested in new thinking, while Holden has argued that Cameron makes Labour greens look 'old and tired'.

He admits that he often runs into resistance from ob-gyns who have become set in their ways.

By the mid-80s Nuriddin was also aware his album had become a set text for rappers.

He credited how the new members Chris and Nathan "breathed new life" into the band's writing as the original three members had become "too set in their ways".

He said the real issue was the DSP had become a "set and forget" payment even though some people receiving it may have some capacity to work.

The essence of Christianity had become a set of doctrines and laws articulated and controlled by a hierarchy that saw those doctrines as a divine deposit of truth.

Mr. Gibara has had little chance to become set in his ways.