Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] set [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 But Ireland 's new track queen Sonia O'Sullivan also has her eyes set on the prize , and she has the taste for mega-bucks after her 3,000m win in Brussels earned her four one kilogram gold bars worth about £33,000 .
2 As he points out , the idea ( and a lot of the lines ) for ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ were around before Mister C. And The Shamen had long had their sights set on the charts .
3 With regret I decided it was too risky for a party of cadets to accompany me — any way the island boys had their sights set on the night life of Fort William .
4 Isobel was ambitious , and had her sights set on the national news media ; unfortunately , so did every other young news-hustler in every backwater station in the country , and few of them were having to contend with sinuses that felt as if they 'd been stuffed with pillows .
5 Wade , the Commonwealth 800 metres record holder since 1985 , has her sights set on the 1500 metres in the Olympic trials meeting in Birmingham at the end of next month and is ready to test her form against top-class opposition after recovering from a knee injury which threatened to ruin her summer plans .
6 With its sights set on the worldwide Keno Gaming market , AWA Gaming Systems has announced the release of Kenix , a Concurrent Computer Corp , real-time Unix-based version of the computer system driving the popular gambling game Club Keno .
7 With its sights set against the established social and political order , it was further estranged from those newspapers which were able to participate in the reporting and gossip of metropolitan politics .
8 Then they were formal again , and the company was trooping out of the courtyard and into the cold breeze that billowed down from the distant mountains , their faces set towards the east .
9 They were drunk , marchers and watchers , exalted out of themselves , their faces set in the rictus of certainty .
10 ‘ It 's what we 've been working for all season , ’ said the delighted Whitham , who now has his sights set on the international scene for 1994 , either in Superbikes or the 500cc Grand Prix series .
11 Are your eyes set on the right holiday horizon ?
12 With our feet firmly on the ground and our sights set in the right direction .
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