Example sentences of "scene was set [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Thus the scene was set for the worst disaster in the history of the British Army . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |