Example sentences of "scene [was/were] set for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scene was set for progress towards a modern network . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And with Quine apparently attracted to Miss Novak , the scene was set for some off-screen highlights . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The scene was set for an eventual conflict with the question being ‘ when ’ rather than ‘ will ’ a protest movement break out . |
| 6 | With actress Jackie , 47 , the Hollywood party scene was set for a quiet chat and a bottle of champagne — maybe a magnum . |
| 7 | Using the Mark 1 blue/grey set , complete with a Network SouthEast liveried coach , the scene was set for a return history period piece . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At 2pm that day , in the Vauxhall district of Birmingham , the scene was set for this drama . |
| 11 | The scene was set for a Russian calamity . |
| 12 | Thus the scene was set for the worst disaster in the history of the British Army . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The scene was set for Labour to lose ( more than for Thatcher to win ) the election of May 1979 . |
| 15 | The scene was set for the activity of town planning to move from environmentalism to welfarism . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | By the late 1970s , therefore , the entire scene was set for radical reform : the main ingredients were technological backwardness , bureaucratic stagnation and the failure of all partial attempts to tinker with the system . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the meantime the scene was set for Iran to mount a major counter-offensive . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Velvet curtains swished gracefully aside once more and the scene was set for act three . |