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 | 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 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Court of Appeal lifted it as a matter of principle , even though a hearing on the merits was set for the following day . |