Example sentences of "[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 scene is set for recovery and growth . ’ |
| 3 | Velvet curtains swished gracefully aside once more and the scene was set for act three . |
| 4 | The scene was set for progress towards a modern network . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 small table in the window was set for breakfast for one . |
| 8 | A 30-day period was set for comment on the sanctions or the resumption of negotiations . |
| 9 | General availability of the completed ES/MP release is set for mid-1993 . |
| 10 | The opposition has proposed something similar , so the stage is set for compromise . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | BRITAIN 'S second biggest housebuilder George Wimpey today threw its weight behind hopes that the UK housing market is set for recovery . |
| 13 | In fact , if you always bear in mind that once a table is set for dining , lights lowered , candles lit , that table becomes an oasis , complete in itself , you can make a dining room wherever the table is . |
| 14 | For A Lark is set for repeat |
| 15 | Castle is setting for play |
| 16 | Mr Elton joined the family at the week-end … and the stage was set for tragedy . |