Example sentences of "set the pattern for " in BNC.

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1 He was ahead of his time and set the pattern for the post-war development of soccer as a ‘ media event ’ .
2 In form and style they set the pattern for the first generation of purpose-built station buildings .
3 In other words , the greatest houses no longer set the pattern for the nation .
4 By the early part of the last century two kinds of hospital had emerged that set the pattern for finance and provision for the next 150 years ( Abel-Smith , 1964 ) .
5 Paris was the focal centre of the Île de France region , which produced the early and most famous examples which set the pattern for the whole of northern Europe .
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