Example sentences of "stage was set for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The stage was set for a critical vote where members would be asked to decide whether they were for or against Reagan 's economic programme .
2 The stage was set for a nice priority fight .
3 Dublin-born master flautist Brian Dunning and ex-Stockton 's Wing bodhran virtuoso Tommy Hayes were soon joined in Portland , Oregon , by Bothy Band founder Micheál O Dhomhnaill , and immediately the stage was set for a musical collaboration which has taken the band all over the world .
4 With both sides eager for action the stage was set for a full-scale encounter battle .
5 Having steadily reduced the preparation from organism to circuit , the stage was set for the final reduction ; Kandel 's colleague Samuel Schacher dissected out the specific sensory and motor neurons and incubated them together in a dish ( a procedure known as tissue culture ) .
6 The capture of Côte 304 represented the first breach in the ‘ Line of Resistance ’ that Pétain had prescribed on taking up his command , and with it the stage was set for the final German attack on the Mort Homme , with the elder Falkenhayn once again in command .
7 The stage was set for the following year when Christie 's New York offered the now famous ‘ Egyptian ’ clock , estimated at $200,000–300,000 .
8 The stage was set for an exciting finale on a modified version of the men 's final .
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