Example sentences of "was set [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scene was set for a Russian calamity . |
| 2 | Thirty years ago teacher education in Britain was set for a major expansion . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | From an early stage the pattern was set for a memorable bout as Close jabbed with great conviction , never once taking a backward step and trading punches on an equal basis throughout the fight . |
| 5 | The stage was set for a nice priority fight . |
| 6 | Once Lothar had again spurned his brothers ' messengers , and come southwards from Aachen to the Moselle , apparently seeking battle , the scene was set for a final showdown . |
| 7 | With both sides eager for action the stage was set for a full-scale encounter battle . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | With actress Jackie , 47 , the Hollywood party scene was set for a quiet chat and a bottle of champagne — maybe a magnum . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Court of Appeal lifted it as a matter of principle , even though a hearing on the merits was set for the following day . |
| 13 | The scene was set for an eventual conflict with the question being ‘ when ’ rather than ‘ will ’ a protest movement break out . |
| 14 | The stage was set for an exciting finale on a modified version of the men 's final . |
| 15 | There was Lodowyck 's universal language , for instance , in which a sign for a radical ( eg primitive verb , to light ) was set on a musical stave , with signs for augmentation leg that wherewith the thing is acted ) set adjacent to it . |
| 16 | From that day in 1862 , when Guinness adopted the traditional Irish harp as its trade mark , a symbolic seal was set on the special bond between Guinness and Ireland . |
| 17 | Bail was set at a remarkable $300m , one of the highest on record . |
| 18 | His grey hat , which he swept off with a flourish as the ladies approached , was set at a jaunty angle . |
| 19 | A calendar with a colour photograph of a snow scene was set between the framed painting of Lenin and the portrait of Andropov of the Politburo . |
| 20 | Each link was set with a large stone according alphabetically with the lady 's husband and siblings — malachite for Maximilian , aquamarine for Amelie , amethyst for Augustus , emerald for Eugenie , chrysoprase for Constantine , jacinth for Josephine , topaz for Teolinde and amethyst for Auguste Amelie . |
| 21 | It was set beside an ornamental lake which was decorated by tumbling rocks , an island grotto and a waterfall , all lit by gas lamps . |
| 22 | While it is of course very difficult to fix an offer price several weeks or even months in advance who knows how share prices in general will change in the meantime ? — the table does seem to confirm our earlier claim that , on average , the offer price was set below the free market price . |
| 23 | The subject had been explored in The Trumpet-Major and stories such as ‘ The melancholy hussar of the German legion ’ but it now began to take shape as a verse drama of epic proportions in which the historical story of Napoleon 's rise and fall was set against a reflective commentary on man 's ‘ place in the universe ’ . |
| 24 | More typically , the Unionist belief in the Empire was set against the Liberal plans to break up the United Kingdom , as in the leaflet Under which flag ? of July 1914 : this made the comparison between Unionists who had fought in South Africa and Liberals who had been pro-Boer and who would now shoot loyal Ulstermen . |
| 25 | In the later eighteenth century the concept of nobility was subject to an attack that reached surprising verbal violence : the useful bourgeois was set against the useless noble as the pattern of social virtue . |
| 26 | It was set around a complete quadrangle , and built of rusticated stone . |
| 27 | The trend was set by a fifth-minute booking for Manuel Vivani after a late challenge on Martin Allen . |
| 28 | The grimmer tone of government was set by the new head of the Third Section , P. A. Shuvalov : typical of the ministerial changes which took place was the replacement of A. V. Golovnin , the liberally minded Minister of Education , by the notoriously reactionary Dmitrii Tolstoy . |
| 29 | The lower age limit was set by the National Institute for Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke and the Alzheimer 's Disease and Related Disorders Association ( NINCDS-ADRDA ) and the upper age set by convention for presenile disease . |
| 30 | A pot of ch'ban , a beverage which Alexei thought was quite similar to earth stock coffee , bubbled quietly on a burner which was set in a shallow bowl of sand on the table at her side . |