Example sentences of "set to become " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children , as long as they learn to whinge less about the bones , are all set to become nonagenarians . |
| 2 | Five young men with a passion for music are all set to become the darlings of the pop world . |
| 3 | The Working Dog of the Year Show is scheduled for the Sunday after the horse of the Year Show and is set to become the top spectator event in London for dog lovers . |
| 4 | It is set to become one of the buzz-words of the '90s . |
| 5 | WATER shares last night soared to a premium of more than 20 per cent on the unofficial ‘ grey market ’ as it became clear that the privatisation is set to become the biggest investor give-away since the 1987 Stock Exchange crash . |
| 6 | WATER shares last night soared to a premium of more than 20 per cent on the unofficial ‘ grey market ’ as it became clear that the privatisation is set to become the biggest investor give-away since the 1987 Stock Exchange crash . |
| 7 | California 's Amgen , the jewel in the crown of American biotechnology , is set to become the industry 's first to enter the Fortune 500 list of America 's top companies , with revenue of $1 billion expected this year . |
| 8 | THE CHESTER International Hotel is set to become part of Queens Moat Houses after the former Business Expansion Scheme company agreed to accept an offer valuing it at £9½m . |
| 9 | Now with the international release of the film starring Liza Minnelli , Julie Walters and Shelley Winters to rave reviews , STEPPING OUT is set to become a firm favourite with theatre and film lovers everywhere . |
| 10 | A pilot project to bring countryside recreation information into the town centre has proved so successful that it is set to become a permanent feature in Northampton . |
| 11 | Does this mean that Metallica is set to become more blues-biased in the near future ? |
| 12 | Meanwhile , Storehouse finance director David Simons has confirmed news leaked at the weekend that he is set to become Isosceles ' third chief executive in 15 months . |
| 13 | SINGER Whitney Houston , whose first film Bodyguard is set to become a smash hit , has turned her back on movie stardom . |
| 14 | ACTRESS Barbra Streisand is set to become one of Hollywood 's highest paid entertainers with a film and record deal worth £40 million . |
| 15 | He is regarded as the best English player in the league and is set to become the burgeoning sport 's first pin-up boy . |
| 16 | FORMER Worcestershire captain Phil Neale is set to become only the fifth honorary life member of the club at the county 's annual meeting in February . |
| 17 | A WIDOW is set to become the world 's oldest new mum at the age of 63 . |
| 18 | BRITAIN is set to become the smugglers ' paradise of Europe , Customs officers warned yesterday . |
| 19 | POP legend Roy Orbison is set to become an even bigger star after his death aged 52 . |
| 20 | SEXY superstar Sharon Stone is set to become Hollywood 's highest-paid actress . |
| 21 | TINY Daniel Burke , just two weeks old , is set to become the world 's youngest heart swap patient — if a donor can be found . |
| 22 | The Railway Age , which brings together more than a century and a half of railway tradition on a single site in the heart of Cheshire is set to become a major tourist attraction of national significance , and is located within the town 's famous rail interchange , one of the largest in Europe . |
| 23 | BULLIED Pacific No. 34027 TAW Valley is set to become the first steam locomotive to depart from London 's Waterloo with a passenger train in 25 years . |
| 24 | The event was held at the new National Indoor Arena in central Birmingham — a magnificent auditorium that 's set to become one of Britain 's premier indoor venues . |
| 25 | With China already set to become the biggest telecommunications market in the world , a new network could signal an unprecedented bout of order opportunities for foreign companies . |
| 26 | Faced with the possibility that IBM Corp is to reduce the royalties for using its Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking code , and despite its membership of the APPI Forum backing the proposed open Advanced Peer-to-Peer Internetworking standard , Westborough , Massachusetts-based Proteon International Inc believes that APPN is set to become the industry standard . |
| 27 | Pinnacle Data Systems Inc , one of the Sparc system manufacturers that plans to build a workstation compatible with Sun Microsystems Inc 's Mbus-based Sparcstation 10 ( UX No 392 ) , is set to become the first customer for Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's 64-bit HyperSparc RISC chip , a CPU which has garnered no discernible industry support since its launch back in May ( UX No 385 ) . |
| 28 | Island Graphics is set to become the first — and so far the only — application for Solaris-on-Intel , to be announced this week at PC Expo . |
| 29 | Still , it 's set to become reality in Colorado . |
| 30 | ‘ The best-kept publishing secret of the year is set to become the best-seller of the decade , ’ declared that press release . |