Example sentences of "set [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked all set to be a book-a-year person once she had the initial break . |
| 2 | The Graduate looked all set to be his first , but Ernest Lehman , who was producing and adapting Edward Albee 's acid drama of marital non-bliss , Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? , persuaded Warner Bros to hire the untried Nichols . |
| 3 | Set to be Delphine 's smartest Mega Drive offering yet , this features a scientist who discovers that aliens have landed but loses his memory — an ideal scenario for flashbacks . |
| 4 | A classic and set to be equally good on the NES . |
| 5 | Set to be as ubiquitous as the Body Shop or Habitat in years to come , the Japanese bits 'n' bobs shop Muji is opening its second London store this month at 39 Shelton St , Covent Garden . |
| 6 | Ruby Tiger was third as well in her race , but it was User Friendly who became the Princess of Longchamp yesterday — all set to be crowned Queen next year . |
| 7 | Set to be available from Dragon Systems or IBM in March 1993 , Dragon Dictate-7-k will sell for $2,300 . |
| 8 | Programmes to be cancelled or phased out ( subject to post-Gulf war evaluation ) included the navy 's F-14D fighter aircraft and Trident submarine , the airforce 's Maverick missile and F-15E and F-16 fighter aircraft and the army 's M-1 tank , Apache helicopter and Bradley fighting vehicle ; the remaining two US battleships , Missouri and Wisconsin , were both set to be decommissioned in September 1991 . |
| 9 | Wheelchair-bound Ethlyn Whittaker , aged 56 , from Great Sankey , Warrington , has started a campaign against the means test forms , and has hit out at the charges set to be introduced in October . |
| 10 | We were all set to be impressed , but when we entered the room , it turned out that she was a tiny-little lady with grinning peasant features and the usual pudding-basin haircut . |