Example sentences of "[was/were] set for the [adj] " 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 | Targets for reducing the death toll from heart disease , cancer and other illnesses were set for the first time last year , yet little has happened since then , the British Medical Association said yesterday . |
| 3 | New standards were set for the working-class house in terms of space , WC , bathrooms , sunlight and garden space . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The game was set for the second goal-less draw at the ground in four days , when Andy Melville scored following a free kick . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Court of Appeal lifted it as a matter of principle , even though a hearing on the merits was set for the following day . |
| 11 | A price of 200 francs CFA per kg. was set for the 1989/90 season , half the previous season 's level . |
| 12 | Thus the scene was set for the worst disaster in the history of the British Army . |
| 13 | The next meeting was set for the 23rd April but three days later disaster struck the party whilst they were viewing the God 's Gift Copper Mine . |