Example sentences of "[be] set [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delorean car enthusiasts from all over the world are set to converge on the province on Thursday for their annual reunion . |
| 2 | It is also estimated that 37 Tory backbenchers are set to vote against the government in Wednesday 's Maastricht debate , making the result too close to call . |
| 3 | ‘ The valves are set according to the weather conditions , and the setting it was on was just enough to cause the tanker to leak slightly . |
| 4 | Field boundaries are set according to the tithe map of 1846 , with the old methods of dry stone walling and laid hedges . |
| 5 | Morley Street and Granville Again are set to clash in the Coral-Elite Hurdle which has also attracted this year 's Champion runner-up Oh So Risky and Martin Pipe 's Tyrone Bridge . |
| 6 | Bills for an average household are set to double by the end of the decade and rocket to £345 by the year 2005 , says a report from the water watchdog Oftel . |
| 7 | Both schemes are being administered by Service Quality Development , and are set to run until the end of the year . |
| 8 | There are also ten Windows Wallpapers , twenty animated cursors that can be set to move across the screen after a certain time , and eight screen savers . |
| 9 | There are also ten Windows Wallpapers , twenty animated cursors that can be set to move across the screen after a certain time , and eight screen savers . |
| 10 | Our plans to spread employee ownership and participation will encourage wages to be set according to the profitability of individual firms rather than to some national ‘ going rate ’ . |
| 11 | Text may also be set centred to the page leaving a ragged edge on both the left and the right . |
| 12 | In September the Council warned that wheat stocks held by the five biggest exporters — Argentina , Australia , Canada , the European Commodities and the USA , were set to fall by the end of the 1989-90 season to levels not seen since the food crisis of the mid-1970's . |
| 13 | A base price is set according to the area . |
| 14 | One of the players whose future is assured is 18-year-old Jamie Pollock , who is set to return to the side tonight after struggling to hold down a regular place . |
| 15 | West Indian Tony Gray has been signed at great expense while former Durham County stalwart , Johnnie Johnston , is set to return to the club for one final fling . |
| 16 | Now on top of her injuries her insurance is set to go through the roof |
| 17 | A FAN-tastic collection of antiques is set to go under the hammer in Liverpool . |
| 18 | Thus we frequently have a pattern where a relatively difficult examination is set to conform to the entry standards someone hopes may be achieved , where a large number of candidates do very badly on it and some of the least bewildered are then selected for further education . |
| 19 | My single bronze maggot bait on a size 20 Kamasan B510 barbless hook is set to trip through the swim one inch off the bottom to stop it dragging in any rubbish . |
| 20 | And that bleak , midwintry oulook is set to continue over the weekend , I 'm afraid . |
| 21 | And the momentum is set to continue after the day of protest with the publication of a trespass guide to the Thurlstone Moor area . |
| 22 | Physical expansion is set to continue in the remainder of the current year with 20 trading outlets , representing 100,000 sq ft on top of the existing 694,500 , due to open . |
| 23 | The European Commission is set to rule on the dispute at the end of the month . |
| 24 | A controversial wine bar which was ordered to close after complaints from members of the public about noise and disturbance , is set to reopen with the backing of the police . |
| 25 | MAJOR rebuilding work on a town leisure centre is set to begin by the end of next month . |
| 26 | The prevalence rate of mental disorders — the proportion of the total population affected — is set to increase around the globe by the year 2000 . |
| 27 | In spite of high interest rates , price inflation at the factory gate has varied from 4.8-5.2 per cent during the past seven months with little indication that it is set to slip below the range . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He was set to go in the autumn , but he did not run away from that one — he got the editors of five friendly newspapers to run away for him . |
| 30 | This indicates how the proponents of ‘ law and order ’ have picked up and run with the ball that was set rolling by the Justice Model , with very different effects from those that the Justice Model 's original advocates desired or expected . |