Example sentences of "the [noun] [be] set for " in BNC.
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1 | The trial is set for May . |
2 | Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the first time today when the scales were set for the official weigh-in . |
3 | has recently announced her engagement and the wedding is set for June ‘ 91 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | A deadline for the deal was set for today . |
6 | The Big House : tear-gas clouds blossoming over mess-hall riots , ‘ the break is set for midnight ’ notes , squealers ‘ accidentally ’ falling under trip-hammers in the workshop . |
7 | 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 ] . |
8 | The small table in the window was set for breakfast for one . |
9 | On the other hand if the strategies of parental involvement are n't thoroughly and frequently reviewed then the scene is set for all sorts of problems to arise . |
10 | The scene is set for further dissociative experiences . |
11 | When government delegates meet every two years to decide which species to add to or delete from the appendices , the scene is set for a battle between non-governmental conservation organisations , such as the World Wildlife Fund , and representatives of the pet industry and the fur trade , with both factions desperately trying to sell their points of view . |
12 | The scene is set for recovery and growth . ’ |
13 | The scene is set for the events leading up to the Crucifixion . |
14 | But the two crews are likely to meet again at Henley and the scene is set for a classic confrontation . |
15 | THE scene is set for what promises to be the best Isle of Man International Cycling Week for many years from June 20–27 . |
16 | THE scene is set for Britain 's Chris Lillywhite of the Banana professional team to clinch overall victory in the 1993 Milk Race this afternoon . |
17 | The scene is set for a Courage League National Division Two showdown West on March 14 Newcastle victory moved them to within two points of their North-East rivals . |
18 | THE scene is set for a Courage League National Division Two showdown West on March 14 Newcastle victory moved them to within two points of their North-East rivals . |
19 | The scene was set for progress towards a modern network . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | And with Quine apparently attracted to Miss Novak , the scene was set for some off-screen highlights . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | The scene was set for an eventual conflict with the question being ‘ when ’ rather than ‘ will ’ a protest movement break out . |
24 | Using the Mark 1 blue/grey set , complete with a Network SouthEast liveried coach , the scene was set for a return history period piece . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | At 2pm that day , in the Vauxhall district of Birmingham , the scene was set for this drama . |
28 | The scene was set for a Russian calamity . |
29 | Thus the scene was set for the worst disaster in the history of the British Army . |
30 | 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 . |