Example sentences of "[noun] set [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still positioned as a technical , rather than a commercial Unix supplier — and with its sights set firmly on the Cray Y-MP and Convex Computer Corp user community — the Mountain View , California company has introduced Challenge and Power Challenge server systems , claiming Cray-equivalent performance at a tenth of the price . |
| 2 | Silicon Graphics maintains it is still a technical , rather than a commercial Unix supplier and has its sights set firmly on the Cray Y-MP and Convex Computer Corp user community with its latest offerings . |
| 3 | On the morning of the day before her departure Delia Sutherland was sitting in front of the fruit and toast Luney set daily on the terrace , and which not once had she been able to eat . |
| 4 | Which was when the other horse got to Hullabaloo 's quarters , a big , handsome bay , his bit covered in a white froth , his nostrils wide and red , and his eye set fast on the forthcoming obstacle . |
| 5 | Brezhnev 's proposals for the Gulf were characterised as an ‘ extension of the conditions which the Soviet Union set earlier on the normalisation of conditions in the basin of the Indian Ocean , on transforming it into a zone of peace ’ . |
| 6 | The party set forth on the road for Verdun . |