Example sentences of "was set [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scene was set for a Russian calamity . |
| 2 | Thirty years ago teacher education in Britain was set for a major expansion . |
| 3 | The stage was set for a critical vote where members would be asked to decide whether they were for or against Reagan 's economic programme . |
| 4 | No date was set for a planned third meeting . |
| 5 | No new date was set for a ninth round of talks . |
| 6 | From an early stage the pattern was set for a memorable bout as Close jabbed with great conviction , never once taking a backward step and trading punches on an equal basis throughout the fight . |
| 7 | The stage was set for a nice priority fight . |
| 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 | With both sides eager for action the stage was set for a full-scale encounter battle . |
| 10 | Dublin-born master flautist Brian Dunning and ex-Stockton 's Wing bodhran virtuoso Tommy Hayes were soon joined in Portland , Oregon , by Bothy Band founder Micheál O Dhomhnaill , and immediately the stage was set for a musical collaboration which has taken the band all over the world . |
| 11 | With actress Jackie , 47 , the Hollywood party scene was set for a quiet chat and a bottle of champagne — maybe a magnum . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The game was set for the second goal-less draw at the ground in four days , when Andy Melville scored following a free kick . |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Court of Appeal lifted it as a matter of principle , even though a hearing on the merits was set for the following day . |
| 19 | A price of 200 francs CFA per kg. was set for the 1989/90 season , half the previous season 's level . |
| 20 | Thus the scene was set for the worst disaster in the history of the British Army . |
| 21 | The next meeting was set for the 23rd April but three days later disaster struck the party whilst they were viewing the God 's Gift Copper Mine . |
| 22 | The scene was set for an eventual conflict with the question being ‘ when ’ rather than ‘ will ’ a protest movement break out . |
| 23 | The stage was set for an exciting finale on a modified version of the men 's final . |
| 24 | Her oval face with its large dark eyes and high forehead was set on a long , graceful neck . |
| 25 | For almost the whole of the period under review , the prevalent and strongly held belief was that Britain , in common with other major economies , had climbed out of the economic slough of the interwar years and was set on a broad and permanent path of rising prosperity and full employment . |
| 26 | There was Lodowyck 's universal language , for instance , in which a sign for a radical ( eg primitive verb , to light ) was set on a musical stave , with signs for augmentation leg that wherewith the thing is acted ) set adjacent to it . |
| 27 | The tone was set on the first day out of London when Kinnock confided to a class of six-year-olds at Staple Hill primary school in Kingswood , Bristol : ‘ Glenys is a teacher in real life : this is just pretending . ’ |
| 28 | From that day in 1862 , when Guinness adopted the traditional Irish harp as its trade mark , a symbolic seal was set on the special bond between Guinness and Ireland . |
| 29 | Haya de la Torre rejected the Comintern premise that Latin America was set on the same course of development as the European industrial nations . |
| 30 | Bail was set at a remarkable $300m , one of the highest on record . |