Example sentences of "[noun pl] set on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Are your eyes set on the right holiday horizon ?
2 Wade , the Commonwealth 800 metres record holder since 1985 , has her sights set on the 1500 metres in the Olympic trials meeting in Birmingham at the end of next month and is ready to test her form against top-class opposition after recovering from a knee injury which threatened to ruin her summer plans .
3 ‘ It 's what we 've been working for all season , ’ said the delighted Whitham , who now has his sights set on the international scene for 1994 , either in Superbikes or the 500cc Grand Prix series .
4 Isobel was ambitious , and had her sights set on the national news media ; unfortunately , so did every other young news-hustler in every backwater station in the country , and few of them were having to contend with sinuses that felt as if they 'd been stuffed with pillows .
5 Voix du Zaïre radio said that enraged students set on the junior education minister , Issalu Isangi , who was badly beaten up .
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