Example sentences of "was set [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Court of Appeal lifted it as a matter of principle , even though a hearing on the merits was set for the following day . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His face was set into the perfect sympathetic mould now . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | While it is of course very difficult to fix an offer price several weeks or even months in advance who knows how share prices in general will change in the meantime ? — the table does seem to confirm our earlier claim that , on average , the offer price was set below the free market price . |
| 9 | More typically , the Unionist belief in the Empire was set against the Liberal plans to break up the United Kingdom , as in the leaflet Under which flag ? of July 1914 : this made the comparison between Unionists who had fought in South Africa and Liberals who had been pro-Boer and who would now shoot loyal Ulstermen . |
| 10 | In the later eighteenth century the concept of nobility was subject to an attack that reached surprising verbal violence : the useful bourgeois was set against the useless noble as the pattern of social virtue . |
| 11 | The grimmer tone of government was set by the new head of the Third Section , P. A. Shuvalov : typical of the ministerial changes which took place was the replacement of A. V. Golovnin , the liberally minded Minister of Education , by the notoriously reactionary Dmitrii Tolstoy . |
| 12 | The trend for suburban dwelling was set by the wealthy , and planned suburbs appeared in order to meet their needs in the 1860s . |
| 13 | The lower age limit was set by the National Institute for Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke and the Alzheimer 's Disease and Related Disorders Association ( NINCDS-ADRDA ) and the upper age set by convention for presenile disease . |
| 14 | Written in verse , the play was set in the Middle Ages and told of a soldier back from seven years in the wars who wanted to die and a beautiful witch who wanted to live . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Eriksons ( 1852 ) , for instance , described Norwegian life in great detail ; ‘ Our Uncle 's Story ’ ( Our Uncle the Traveller 's Stories , 1859 ) was set in the Black Forest , two others in the Lincolnshire fens and in South Africa respectively . |
| 17 | Huckleberry Finn has been proscribed by some American libraries because of its repeated use of the word nigger , even though it was written more than 100 years ago , it was set in the Deep South , and a central purpose of the novel was to challenge prejudices about the black man . |
| 18 | The new tone was set in the early hours of Friday when a broken-hearted bearded man of radical inclinations tore down his Labour posters and replaced them with a single bleak statement which , curiously , he must have had printed before the election . |
| 19 | Turning to the criticisms of the administrative machine through which the political leadership operates , the pattern was set in the early 1960s by Professor Brian Chapman 's British Government Observed . |
| 20 | The amateur record of 68 was set in the Monthly Medal of May 1986 when Club member Michael Orris broke the Club and his own previous record of 69 set in October 1983 . |