Example sentences of "[be] set [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pirate video copies of this year 's most talked about movie are set to flood the region . |
| 2 | Scottish imports are set to flood the League after a massive summer clear-out across the North Channel . |
| 3 | FURIOUS homebuyers are set to sue the builder of their luxury estate after paying £100,000 for houses branded no better than SANDCASTLES . |
| 4 | Soft , sensual styles are set to replace the uniformity of the barrel curls which dominated beauty pages earlier this year . |
| 5 | Rebel Barnet shareholders are set to ask the Department of Trade and Industry to investigate the club 's finances in a bid to have Flashman kicked out of Underhill . |
| 6 | To some extent , SCI has a rival in the Futurebus+ architecture , also an IEEE standard , born in the 1970s but only now gaining recognition : both are set to hit the market at the same time . |
| 7 | Two new products are set to transform the performance of familiar PCs . |
| 8 | ENGLISH cricket fans are set to pay the price for political blunders at Lord 's when the crucial vote is taken in February on the venue for the 1995 World Cup . |
| 9 | And the devastating duo are set to steal the show in the Debmat Diamonds ' full strength line-up . |
| 10 | On machines with automatic end needle selection cams , these are set to select the end needles to the selected position . |
| 11 | Corruption of the design is then less likely as " flags " can be set to refer the draughtsman to relevant sections in this file . |
| 12 | This will be set to illuminate the tank during the early part of the day , and switch off in the evening when I want to see the fish . |
| 13 | Luch would be set to turn the quern to grind the oatmeal , and then she 'd be sent to fetch hay , peats , water . |
| 14 | What is especially good about this unit is that you can also replicate big brother SVT 's trademark ‘ growl ’ , if required ; the limiter can be set to allow the power amp to be safely overdriven , without fear of blowing the speakers apart with harmful transistorised clipping . |
| 15 | The computer is very fast ; it can be set to scan the text of journal articles and print out the titles of all which use significant key words more than a stated number of times , and it can be set to tell us how many times Shakespeare used a particular expression , and in each case it can give the results quite astonishingly quickly . |
| 16 | In this instance , established authority and its police were set to oppose the threat posed by this new anti-structure , for the counter-culture renounced power and society feared their challenge , as it has feared the unworldly in every age . |
| 17 | Congressional leaders were set to meet the president on January 3rd , perhaps to find a course on which all could agree . |
| 18 | Sykes was also responsible for many other signalling and safety devices , including depression or fouling bars interlocked with signals , thus providing valuable protection against these inadvertently being set to allow the passage of a train if other trains were obstructing its path . |
| 19 | Simply put , this replaces one of the springs in the rear cavity with an adjustable ‘ piston ’ which is set to return the tremolo more accurately to its standing position , hence keeping the instrument 's tuning more stable . |
| 20 | Hailed as the next Sophia Loren , the dark-eyed Italian is set to take the fashion world by storm as she steps out in the latest clothes by rainwear company Four Seasons . |
| 21 | British Telecommunications Plc 's Customer Systems division — ‘ the largest UK systems house that no-one 's ever heard of ’ — has spent the past three years restructuring and now reckons it is set to take the world by storm . |
| 22 | A Recovery Scrubber , developed for use in the cement industry by the Passamaquoddy native American tribe , is set to transform the way the world burns coal . |
| 23 | However , Mr Lamont , who may also make a cut in betting duty , is set to sanction the VAT registration of owners , enabling the recovery of VAT incurred on buying horses and on training fees . |
| 24 | Despite the glossy packaging he ruined Labour 's chances last time and he is set to repeat the disaster . |
| 25 | The waveform analysis circuit is set to detect the zero rate of change of free . |
| 26 | Under a new name , the BHRCA is set to give the industry the single voice it demands . |
| 27 | THE Government is set to overrule the Queen and axe more than half the royal hangers-on from the Civil List . |
| 28 | THE SLUMP is set to blow the froth off beer prices as brewers prepare to combat a fall in demand for the traditional British pint . |
| 29 | James is set to pay the price for an indifferent performance at Spurs on Saturday , Hooper winning a dramatic recall after his Anfield career looked over following his walkout on the eve of last season 's FA Cup final against Sunderland . |
| 30 | James is set to pay the price for an indifferent performance at Spurs on Saturday , Hooper winning a dramatic recall after his Anfield career looked over following his walkout on the eve of last season 's FA Cup final against Sunderland . |