Example sentences of "set [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FLYING FILLY Kooyonga pays her first visit to York today all set to bank another £200,000 . |
| 2 | Like a depth charge casually placed in a goldfish bowl , Kinky Machine look all set to bust this incongruous little hole right open . |
| 3 | ‘ You need a Number Nine set to make that . |
| 4 | Investors set to make another killing |
| 5 | Compuware is set to acquire some 900 new customers under its deal with Landmark , in addition to the 200 PD/MVS contracts it will inherit from IBM . |
| 6 | TopLog says it is only waiting on Univel to get its stuff out of the door and was originally set to go this month . |
| 7 | Monetary policy is set to meet that objective . |
| 8 | Top hair stylists are being recruited for the Demon Barber , which is set to open this month , and the recently-opened designer sale shop stocks John Richmond , Val Pirou , Helen Storey and Jean Colonna at a snip of the original designer tag . |
| 9 | The bridge was set to open this month but repair work has been dogged with difficulties . |
| 10 | Hair was set to create these big glossy ringlets . |
| 11 | When the library is a multi-media centre , it may be possible for the tape-slide sequence to be studied there , but in the typical school there would be severe limitations if more than a small proportion of students were set to do such study ; the library is usually too small for more than a tenth of the school population at best to use it at any one time . |
| 12 | It is set to do this at 6.45 . |
| 13 | It is an asymmetric measure , just like d : the slope depends on which variable is treated as the response variable , just as d depends on which way the percentages have been run ; exercise 10.2 has been set to illustrate this . |
| 14 | ‘ You looked as though you were set to sleep all day . ’ |
| 15 | Spanish manager Jabier Clemente is set to recall some of his more experienced stars for what is sure to be a closely-contested affair . |
| 16 | The UN General Assembly is set to ratify this month the Convention on the Rights of the Child , 10 years after the ‘ Year of the Child ’ was proclaimed . |
| 17 | Having done this , the machine should be set to read each row once only . |
| 18 | Indeed there are many highly intelligent children who are completely uninterested in the kinds of questions set at O or A level in English , questions about the choice of words in the sonnets of Keats or Jane Austen 's power of characterization , who have been set to read these texts with a view to answering such questions , and who are perhaps turned away from reading for ever by being required to embark on a specialized and academic study of literary criticism for which they are totally unsuited by taste , temperament , or ability . |
| 19 | Exercise 11.4 has been set to demonstrate this point with time series . |
| 20 | The SOC government had been set to release some 400 political detainees and POWs on Jan. 3 but the move had been cancelled after Fresard denounced it as " a pure propaganda piece " . |
| 21 | That 's the message from Darlington Community Radio which is set to raise more funds from the sale of bee badges . |
| 22 | With the secondary grounded model the procedure is initially set to translate all components into association so as to re-establish the integrity of the system . |
| 23 | Balderton Hospital in Newark , the old mental handicap hospital for the county , is set to close this year , and Bassetlaw 's small inpatient unit can not provide long term intensive care . |
| 24 | These sources of differences affected their overall view of the reform programme since some were set to gain more than others . |
| 25 | PROFITS at bookshops group Pentos are set to plunge this year , boss Terry Maher warned . |
| 26 | WEST Bromwich Albion manager , Ossie Ardiles , is set to sign former Wolves goalkeeper Tony Lange on a free transfer this week . |
| 27 | He gave me no satisfactory answer , saying only that The Times was set to make this disclosure in an article by a woman journalist the following day . |
| 28 | Perhaps in response to this call for negotiations ( though that is something that the administration would not admit ) , Mr Baker is set to make another tour of allied capitals in Europe and the Middle East , during which he would , at the very least , be available for a meeting in Baghdad . |
| 29 | The Gemini Flash IIA is designed with wingtips that may be adjusted , when on the ground , such that the angle of incidence of the tip areas of the wing can be set to correct any inbuilt tendency of the wing to turn in flight . |
| 30 | After that , GCSE courses are set to become much more exam based . |