Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [be] set for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Big House : tear-gas clouds blossoming over mess-hall riots , ‘ the break is set for midnight ’ notes , squealers ‘ accidentally ’ falling under trip-hammers in the workshop . |
| 2 | The small table in the window was set for breakfast for one . |
| 3 | The scene is set for recovery and growth . ’ |
| 4 | Velvet curtains swished gracefully aside once more and the scene was set for act three . |
| 5 | The scene was set for progress towards a modern network . |
| 6 | The Report of P.M. Stewart , the Commissioner , exposed the problem starkly : By the late 1930s , therefore , the scene was set for town planning to incorporate a wider frame of reference . |
| 7 | The scene was set for confrontation and as these confrontations continued without an end in sight , it became clear that the usual tactics of the unions were not going to work . |
| 8 | The opposition has proposed something similar , so the stage is set for compromise . |
| 9 | When the school does n't take complaint gathering seriously and parents are ill at ease in approaching the school then the stage is set for crisis . |
| 10 | Mr Elton joined the family at the week-end … and the stage was set for tragedy . |