Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [was/were] set for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the first time today when the scales were set for the official weigh-in . |
| 2 | The wedding was set for October , and Elizabeth was offered a reward , for which she was sweetly grateful ; the Maclean was invited to bring his heir to Inveraray for the betrothal . |
| 3 | A deadline for the deal was set for today . |
| 4 | In June 1991 the government introduced a draft Pact of Progress , which controversially sought to tie wage rises to productivity ; a deadline for union agreement on the plan was set for the end of September [ see p. 38114 ] . |
| 5 | The small table in the window was set for breakfast for one . |
| 6 | The scene was set for progress towards a modern network . |
| 7 | At the same time , milk yields had to be substantially increased and sustainable and the scene was set for a revolution in breeding and for the development of most of the modern breeds . |
| 8 | And with Quine apparently attracted to Miss Novak , the scene was set for some off-screen highlights . |
| 9 | The scene was set for a confrontation which , because of the simultaneous peaking of unrest over the food question , threatened to bring not only a few militant engineers , but whole working-class communities into direct action against the continuation of the war . |
| 10 | The scene was set for an eventual conflict with the question being ‘ when ’ rather than ‘ will ’ a protest movement break out . |
| 11 | Using the Mark 1 blue/grey set , complete with a Network SouthEast liveried coach , the scene was set for a return history period piece . |
| 12 | But , after this , the scene was set for the 1936 Berlin Olympics where , as Richard Mandell points out : ‘ Racial policy permeated all aspects of German life in the Nazi era . |
| 13 | The scene was set for a movie genius but what was important for the history of the movies was that the genius who emerged to push the medium and the industry into a new era was a self-educated romantic whose values and ideas had not been provided by any distinctive intellectual tradition or urban political party but rather had emerged first out of his Southern , rural , Methodist past and then as he had drifted through a rapidly changing America . |
| 14 | At 2pm that day , in the Vauxhall district of Birmingham , the scene was set for this drama . |
| 15 | The scene was set for a Russian calamity . |
| 16 | Thus the scene was set for the worst disaster in the history of the British Army . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The scene was set for Labour to lose ( more than for Thatcher to win ) the election of May 1979 . |
| 19 | The scene was set for the activity of town planning to move from environmentalism to welfarism . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In the meantime the scene was set for Iran to mount a major counter-offensive . |
| 23 | Then while the Sassanian dynasty was emerging in its turn , following the Parthians who had swept away the Seleucid regime that ruled both Mesopotamia and the lands farther east after the break-up of Alexander 's vast empire in the fourth century BC , the scene was set for the emergence of Islam . |
| 24 | With enthusiastic Board members , an experienced Registrar and a small staff , and the accumulated validation experience of the late 1960s and early 1970s , the scene was set for the acquisition of a major award in the field , and the continued development of business and management studies that we have seen . |
| 25 | In all sixteen teams had made it through to this stage and with a full house the scene was set for an evening of top quizzing . |
| 26 | But then the scene was set for the first of Darlington 's structural engineering companies to install a series of iron bridges on the rapidly expanding rail networks . |
| 27 | Velvet curtains swished gracefully aside once more and the scene was set for act three . |
| 28 | The Court of Appeal lifted it as a matter of principle , even though a hearing on the merits was set for the following day . |
| 29 | The game was set for the second goal-less draw at the ground in four days , when Andy Melville scored following a free kick . |
| 30 | 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 . |