Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] set [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | There was now a captive market for British films , and that market would expand steadily through the ten years the act was set to remain on the statute book . |
2 | Interest rates were set to rise from the current 2.5 per cent to between 6 and 11 per cent in 1991 . |
3 | Finding the work ‘ quite fun ’ , from then on his commercial career was set to remain in the media industry , moving in 1980 to be director of Pearson 's information and entertainment division then , in 1984 , becoming managing director of Virgin group where , operationally , he was responsible for the record , video , entertainment and retail businesses ( including the group 's Megastores ) . |
4 | He financed a short film , The Space Movie , in which Oldfield 's music was set to footage from the American space programme . |
5 | This economic lodestar was set to achieve for the UK a reduction in interest rates , a break in the long-ingrained inflationary tendencies that have afflicted the UK economy since the war , and to increase the momentum of developing trade links between the UK and the EC . |