Example sentences of "[is] set [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Brighton centre-half Paul McCarthy is set to return to the Under-21s as captain after missing the defeat in Copenhagen with injury . |
| 3 | ROY McCreadie is set to return to Irish League football next season — as a player . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Steam is set to return in early October with the two Standard 4 tanks double heading a special from Salop to Aberystwyth . |
| 6 | Bradford striker Sean McCarthy is set to return after a three-match suspension . |
| 7 | Now on top of her injuries her insurance is set to go through the roof |
| 8 | LUXURY car maker Jensen is set to go into liquidation — after selling just ONE car this year with NO outstanding orders . |
| 9 | The right wing coalition parties , RPR and UDF , are expected to triumph at the French legislative elections due to take place at the end of this month but , regardless of who wins , the French economy is set to go into recession in the first half of this year with even the most optimistic forecasters predicting zero growth . |
| 10 | A FAN-tastic collection of antiques is set to go under the hammer in Liverpool . |
| 11 | General Motors Corp 's Hughes Network Systems Inc has a contract to build a digital network for fixed telephone and cellular phones in Chengdu , the capital Sichuan Province in the People 's Republic of China : the initial contract , which is worth $15m , will serve more than 20,000 subscribers and expansions of the network will eventually serve 100,000 subscribers ; the entire Chengdu network is set to go on line in November ; Hughes is also building a similar network in Tatarstan , in the Russian Republic . |
| 12 | Outraged Tory Peter Jones has called on fellow borough councillors to ban on the exhibition which is set to go on display at the town 's Arts Centre . |
| 13 | For we understand that Dexter — the man who sacked David Gower — is set to go as chairman of selectors . |
| 14 | A village school in Buckinghamshire is set to close despite a campaign by parents to keep it open . |
| 15 | THE strife-torn Timex plant in Dundee is set to close by Christmas , union officials said last night after talks with its American management . |
| 16 | He went on to become leading trainer in Madras for eighteen years and is set to retire to his property in Cheshire , which is fenced by the running rail from Castle Irwell , Manchester 's racecourse . |
| 17 | consumption is set to fall by 14% |
| 18 | excise tax take is set to fall by 2% |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This specialist market is set to boom in Japan , even though the market for new cars is mature . |
| 21 | The latest move comes at a time when ICI 's £1.2bn a year pharmaceutical division , which accounts for around a fifth of group trading profits , is set to emerge from a relatively fallow period . |
| 22 | The PPF insist pool is set to emerge from snooker 's shadow and believe ‘ Dazzling Daz ’ can attract the necessary television exposure . |
| 23 | For instance there is electronic software distribution , an area that Legent reckons is set to explode over the next five years . |
| 24 | The German government is set to extend to industry the compulsory recovery/recycling regulations which apply to consumer packaging [ see EDs 63 , 56 ] . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And the success story is set to continue into the Premier League if John King 's team produce more performances like the one which saw off promotion rivals Leicester . |
| 27 | And that bleak , midwintry oulook is set to continue over the weekend , I 'm afraid . |
| 28 | The buzz surrounding Horrocks is set to continue with her appearance in Jennifer Saunders ' new BBC2 sitcom Absolutely Fabulous . |
| 29 | And the momentum is set to continue after the day of protest with the publication of a trespass guide to the Thurlstone Moor area . |
| 30 | 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 . |