Example sentences of "[be] set [to-vb] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scottish imports are set to flood the League after a massive summer clear-out across the North Channel . |
| 2 | FURIOUS homebuyers are set to sue the builder of their luxury estate after paying £100,000 for houses branded no better than SANDCASTLES . |
| 3 | Soft , sensual styles are set to replace the uniformity of the barrel curls which dominated beauty pages earlier this year . |
| 4 | Rebel Barnet shareholders are set to ask the Department of Trade and Industry to investigate the club 's finances in a bid to have Flashman kicked out of Underhill . |
| 5 | To some extent , SCI has a rival in the Futurebus+ architecture , also an IEEE standard , born in the 1970s but only now gaining recognition : both are set to hit the market at the same time . |
| 6 | Two new products are set to transform the performance of familiar PCs . |
| 7 | ENGLISH cricket fans are set to pay the price for political blunders at Lord 's when the crucial vote is taken in February on the venue for the 1995 World Cup . |
| 8 | And the devastating duo are set to steal the show in the Debmat Diamonds ' full strength line-up . |
| 9 | Corruption of the design is then less likely as " flags " can be set to refer the draughtsman to relevant sections in this file . |
| 10 | This will be set to illuminate the tank during the early part of the day , and switch off in the evening when I want to see the fish . |
| 11 | The computer is very fast ; it can be set to scan the text of journal articles and print out the titles of all which use significant key words more than a stated number of times , and it can be set to tell us how many times Shakespeare used a particular expression , and in each case it can give the results quite astonishingly quickly . |
| 12 | Congressional leaders were set to meet the president on January 3rd , perhaps to find a course on which all could agree . |
| 13 | Sykes was also responsible for many other signalling and safety devices , including depression or fouling bars interlocked with signals , thus providing valuable protection against these inadvertently being set to allow the passage of a train if other trains were obstructing its path . |
| 14 | British Telecommunications Plc 's Customer Systems division — ‘ the largest UK systems house that no-one 's ever heard of ’ — has spent the past three years restructuring and now reckons it is set to take the world by storm . |
| 15 | THE SLUMP is set to blow the froth off beer prices as brewers prepare to combat a fall in demand for the traditional British pint . |
| 16 | James is set to pay the price for an indifferent performance at Spurs on Saturday , Hooper winning a dramatic recall after his Anfield career looked over following his walkout on the eve of last season 's FA Cup final against Sunderland . |
| 17 | James is set to pay the price for an indifferent performance at Spurs on Saturday , Hooper winning a dramatic recall after his Anfield career looked over following his walkout on the eve of last season 's FA Cup final against Sunderland . |
| 18 | ‘ The best-kept publishing secret of the year is set to become the best-seller of the decade , ’ declared that press release . |
| 19 | MIDDLESBROUGH council 's chief personnel officer is set to become the president of the Society of Chief Personnel Officers in local government . |
| 20 | The OFT is set to advise the President of the Board of Trade , Michael Heseltine , about any possible MMC referral . |
| 21 | CAESARS Palace in Las Vegas is set to host the draw for the 1994 World Cup finals . |
| 22 | A ROW over plans for a Teesside mosque is set to provide the ammunition for a fiery public meeting tonight . |