Example sentences of "scene [was/were] set [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 At sea the scene was set with the cutters Vigilant , Swift , Alert and Active patrolling about thirty miles offshore at midnight on September 16th to the west of Plymouth .
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 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 .
4 With actress Jackie , 47 , the Hollywood party scene was set for a quiet chat and a bottle of champagne — maybe a magnum .
5 Using the Mark 1 blue/grey set , complete with a Network SouthEast liveried coach , the scene was set for a return history period piece .
6 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 .
7 The scene was set for a Russian calamity .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Thus the scene was set for the worst disaster in the history of the British Army .
11 The scene was set for the activity of town planning to move from environmentalism to welfarism .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 The scene was set for an eventual conflict with the question being ‘ when ’ rather than ‘ will ’ a protest movement break out .
16 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 .
17 A calendar with a colour photograph of a snow scene was set between the framed painting of Lenin and the portrait of Andropov of the Politburo .
18 The scene was set in a cabin on the boat with two men lone Fernandell and a beautiful Tahitian girl wearing only a grass skirt .
19 But the scene was set in the political climate of the Weimar Republic for political and functional devolution , a system of checks and balances between individual , sectional , and national interests .
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