Example sentences of "[is] set [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quest has been launched by Gala bingo clubs in the run up to Shrove Tuesday , March 3 , and the competition is set to see 600 enthusiasts at the Darlington club . |
| 2 | Despite the demise of cast member FRANKIE HOWERD , Carry On Columbus is set to go full steam ahead with JULIAN CLARY , RIK MAYALL , ADE EDMONDSON , JIM DALE , BARBARA WINDSOR and HARRY ENFIELD . |
| 3 | In their article ‘ Britain is set to abandon nuclear reprocessing ’ ( This Week , p 567 , 3 March ) , Fred Pearce and Roger Milne have lent my words a meaning more than they will bear . |
| 4 | Britain is set to abandon nuclear reprocessing |
| 5 | Balderton Hospital in Newark , the old mental handicap hospital for the county , is set to close this year , and Bassetlaw 's small inpatient unit can not provide long term intensive care . |
| 6 | BOURNEMOUTH midfield player Shaun Brooks , who was alleged to have been involved in a fight with team manager Tony Pulis three weeks ago , is set to join Third Division Stockport in £30,000 deal . |
| 7 | Compuware is set to acquire some 900 new customers under its deal with Landmark , in addition to the 200 PD/MVS contracts it will inherit from IBM . |
| 8 | Enterprise up Enterprise Oil is set to report first half net earnings of £60–67m on Thursday , boosted by tax changes and higher oil revenues after sterling 's depreciation , analysts say . |
| 9 | Now the water industry is set to spend billions of pounds in improvements , the likely result of which is that our bills will go up by at least 50% over the next few years . |
| 10 | The heir to the £100m Blenheim estate is set to serve 112 days for failing to pay more than £10,000 in maintenance to his estranged wife Becky , and now also faces new charges of attacking police sent to arrest him yesterday . |
| 11 | This screen is set to display embedded markers which mark the position of tabs , carriage returns and text attributes . |
| 12 | Top hair stylists are being recruited for the Demon Barber , which is set to open this month , and the recently-opened designer sale shop stocks John Richmond , Val Pirou , Helen Storey and Jean Colonna at a snip of the original designer tag . |
| 13 | It is set to do this at 6.45 . |
| 14 | Modern methods to make history more accessible : New management is set to boost British Historic Royal Palaces , as Neasa MacErlean reports |
| 15 | The Skinnergate shop is set to reopen next week . |
| 16 | The town hall is set to reopen next year and will include a tourist information centre , library and concert room . |
| 17 | NatWest cut staff by 7,200 in 1992 and is set to axe 4,000 more this year . |
| 18 | The Netherlands is set to build 2,000 new energy-generating windmills by the end of the century , in addition to the 1,000 already in place . |
| 19 | GEMMA IS SET TO WIN LONG BATTLE |
| 20 | Given that the second Tory recession is set to cost 550,000 manufacturing jobs and 100,000 companies and is set to put the United Kingdom at the bottom of the European Community league table on under-investment and employment in 1992 , will the right hon. Gentleman now admit that urgent action is needed to boost employment in Britain to take us out of this situation ? |
| 21 | Ferguson is set to play international striker Tor Dahlum , 24 , alongside 21-year-old Adam Ndlovu , brother of Coventry 's Peter , in a Pontins League match at Bury . |
| 22 | It is set to become one of the buzz-words of the '90s . |
| 23 | ACTRESS Barbra Streisand is set to become one of Hollywood 's highest paid entertainers with a film and record deal worth £40 million . |
| 24 | According to the report , the government is set to increase power-station capacity in England and Wales by 39 percent and demand by 50 per cent by 1997 . |
| 25 | Now the hard-up zoo in Regent 's Park is set to break even over the current financial year . |
| 26 | Building on the TV success that rocketed her to overnight fame , she is set to make TWO movies and is launching a promising pop career . |
| 27 | A SEVEN-month-old Scots baby is set to make medical history by undergoing Britain 's first genetic transplant in a pioneering operation . |
| 28 | Perhaps in response to this call for negotiations ( though that is something that the administration would not admit ) , Mr Baker is set to make another tour of allied capitals in Europe and the Middle East , during which he would , at the very least , be available for a meeting in Baghdad . |
| 29 | Since unemployment started rising nationally in March 1990 , 997,500 people have joined the dole queue and that figure is set to pass one million next month , when a General Election could be weeks away . |
| 30 | MAUREEN Lipman is set to scoop another acting award for her role as Beattie , the Jewish momma in the BT ads . |