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The scene is now set and the war can begin.
The plan you write will set the scene for your business.
She let go; once the scene had been set, they were all right.
The scene was set; I felt that from the first.
In the early 1980s Lord began work on a major project that was to set the scene for much of his later art.
This set the scene for further actions by the military.
The video's first scene is set in a desert at night.
The scene was set for the next phase of the war.
And the testimony set the scene for the start of the attack.
I have come to set the scene for you - after all, that is my function.
Idiome