Example sentences of "was set for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way was set for much-needed change , but would things change for the better ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That she achieved it just when the company was set for major expansion , was an accident of timing that Bernard was determined to exploit to the full . |
| 4 | The scene was set for Labour to lose ( more than for Thatcher to win ) the election of May 1979 . |
| 5 | UNITA concluded its seventh congress on March 17 , having re-elected Jonas Savimbi as its president , and stated that it would sign a ceasefire agreement as soon as a date was set for multiparty elections . |