It set the pattern for the day.
But it set the pattern for other deals.
As it was, it set the pattern for the first three games.
The oldest school of drama in England, it set the pattern for subsequent schools of acting.
It set the pattern for my life, because my father always grew vegetables, and I learned from him.
It set the pattern for other "Road" films, all starring Mr. Hope, Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, who played the exotic native girl over whom the two fought.
It set the pattern for many of his roles to come such as the mafia don in Prizzi's Honor, and as a mobster who becomes a vampire in Innocent Blood (1992).
The result, "Sarum," became a best seller, largely with the help of independent booksellers, and it set the pattern for his subsequent work, including "London," a well-reviewed best seller from 1997.
It set the pattern for a series of films over the next 12 years - two more railway films, a celebration of Trinidad and Tobago made for BP (though you would hardly know it, so subtle is the branding), and a corporate film for Shell.
It set the pattern for the rest of their lives: her determination that theirs should be a spiritual union, a mystical marriage, an astral connection, an amitié amoureuse, while she devoted herself to the Irish struggle for independence and co-founded the Irish League; while Yeats wrote beautiful poems about his sexual torment and her enraging commitment to action of the wrong kind.
Jean Passerat (died 1602) left several villanelles, one so popular that it set the pattern for later poets and, accidentally, imposed a rigorous and somewhat monotonous form: seven-syllable lines using two rhymes, distributed in (normally) five tercets and a final quatrain with line repetitions.
