Example sentences of "[was/were] set for the [adj] [noun] " 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 New standards were set for the working-class house in terms of space , WC , bathrooms , sunlight and garden space .
3 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 ) .
4 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 .
5 The Court of Appeal lifted it as a matter of principle , even though a hearing on the merits was set for the following day .
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