Example sentences of "be set to become the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He is regarded as the best English player in the league and is set to become the burgeoning sport 's first pin-up boy . |
| 6 | A WIDOW is set to become the world 's oldest new mum at the age of 63 . |
| 7 | BRITAIN is set to become the smugglers ' paradise of Europe , Customs officers warned yesterday . |
| 8 | TINY Daniel Burke , just two weeks old , is set to become the world 's youngest heart swap patient — if a donor can be found . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ The best-kept publishing secret of the year is set to become the best-seller of the decade , ’ declared that press release . |
| 14 | Now Raymond Campbell is set to become the latest arrival . |
| 15 | MIDDLESBROUGH council 's chief personnel officer is set to become the president of the Society of Chief Personnel Officers in local government . |
| 16 | If the plan proceeds , then Dangerfield is set to become the first significant tourist facility to commemorate the history of textile manufacturing in the Borders . |
| 17 | COLLECTORS of business acronyms were boosted yesterday with the unveiling of a new model which is set to become the buzz of the training community , writes Douglas Fraser . |
| 18 | The veteran Shankill councillor was set to become the first outgoing Lord Mayor in Belfast 's history not to be re-elected . |
| 19 | LEICESTER City chairman Brian George yesterday dismissed growing speculation that former Darlington boss Brian Little was set to become the new mannager at Sunderland . |