Example sentences of "[be] set for the " in BNC.

  Previous page   Next page
No Sentence
31 Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the first time today when the scales were set for the official weigh-in .
32 Having decided on the precise objectives being set for the appraisal scheme , next you must choose who will be consulted , who will be appraised by whom and how often .
33 With 150cm Oppdal is set for the winter .
34 An optimum time is set for the course , and penalties awarded if competitors exceed it .
35 Since it was on 11th February in 1984 that I published the Apostolic Letter Salvifici Doloris on the Christian meaning of human suffering , I believe it is significant that the same day is set for the celebration of the ‘ World Day of the Sick ’ .
36 THE sequel to Home Alone is set for the record books after pulling in £20 million in its first weekend .
37 Comdex/Sucesu is set for the Parque Anhembi and Center Norte in Sao Paulo , Brazil August 23-27 and expects 450 exhibitors and 135,000 attendees .
38 The full release of Data Connection 's SNAP-APPN is set for the second quarter of the year .
39 Early shipments have already gone out ; general availability is set for the end of the year .
40 NetWorld ‘ 92 is set for the Dallas Convention Center in Texas October 13–15 .
41 The scene is set for the events leading up to the Crucifixion .
42 Terah dies , and the stage is set for the story of Abraham ( the new name records God 's promise to make this man the father of many nations , 17:5 ) .
43 Wigan 's exciting 18-year-old Jason Robinson is set for the top .
44 And then we learn that the wife is a townswoman , a merchant 's wife , not a fine lady , and the stage is set for the fabliau drama by the absence of the husband on business .
45 It will be recalled from Chapter 3 that the Partnership Act provides that where no definite duration is set for the partnership any partner may " retire " by giving his co-partners notice , whereupon in the absence of any contrary agreement the firm is dissolved .
46 However , difficulties may arise if a strict time limit is set for the publication of the decision , and the decision is published after it has expired : it may suit one of the parties to refuse to accept it on that ground .
47 In an offer for sale a fixed price is set for the shares to be offered to the public by an issuing house for the company concerned .
48 By then , however , the stage was set for the rise of the true State .
49 So the stage was set for the inquisition .
50 The stage was set for the establishment of thirteen ‘ centres of excellence ’ for the development of full-time surveying — thanks , principally to the foresight and energy of HMI Howard Wainwright — and for the first time a sense of security and confidence was available to the selected centres , as they were encouraged to improve their resources base and to develop exempting RICS diplomas , and subsequently degrees , to be validated by the CNAA .
51 The date for the joyous occasion was set for the Sunday of the Canon European Masters and so Spence had to find a replacement to carry his bag at Crans-sur-Sierre .
52 A target of £3.5 million was set for the councils .
53 The stage was set for the following year when Christie 's New York offered the now famous ‘ Egyptian ’ clock , estimated at $200,000–300,000 .
54 But , after this , the scene was set for the 1936 Berlin Olympics where , as Richard Mandell points out : ‘ Racial policy permeated all aspects of German life in the Nazi era .
55 Thus the scene was set for the worst disaster in the history of the British Army .
56 The scene was set for the activity of town planning to move from environmentalism to welfarism .
57 Having steadily reduced the preparation from organism to circuit , the stage was set for the final reduction ; Kandel 's colleague Samuel Schacher dissected out the specific sensory and motor neurons and incubated them together in a dish ( a procedure known as tissue culture ) .
58 Thus , the stage was set for the disappearance of the colleges of education as a separate sector of higher education .
59 The next meeting was set for the 23rd April but three days later disaster struck the party whilst they were viewing the God 's Gift Copper Mine .
60 It was reported on Sept. 17 that the Federation of European Stock Exchanges had agreed to initiate a shared electronic market information service for the 200-300 largest companies in the new EC equity market , but no firm timetable was set for the move .
  Previous page   Next page