Example sentences of "set for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been much comment by Cleese , as well as others , about how being 6ft at the age of 12 ( he 's now 6ft 5in ) , and not being made a prefect at his public school , and being the only child of older , lower middle-class parents , set for a career as a solicitor , began the problems and embarrassments that inspire his comedy . |
| 2 | Management at the Redworth Hall hotel and country club near Darlington say they set for a record breaking year by using an aggressive marketing campaign . |
| 3 | During taxi manoeuvres and take-off the pictures will show ground views to get those at the controls set for a flight to remember . |
| 4 | FAR FROM BEING PUT OUT TO GRASS , DOS IS SET FOR A FACELIFT . |
| 5 | THE Premier League could be set for a £30 million-plus windfall if negotiations to sell television rights worldwide are concluded this week . |
| 6 | AN OUTSIDER revisiting one of Britain 's great provincial cities — Manchester , Glasgow , Liverpool , Birmingham , or Leeds — after a gap of a quarter-century or so is set for a shock . |
| 7 | It was understood that this concealed differences among EC partners , with France arguing for an EC-Iraq meeting irrespective of the position regarding US-Iraqi contacts , and Italy and Spain prepared to endorse a meeting with Tariq Aziz provided that an eventual date had been set for a Bush-Aziz meeting . |
| 8 | A date has now been set for a Circuit Court Hearing in June of 1993 , almost two years since the date of his dismissal . |
| 9 | If London and the North both win , as expected , then the stage will be nicely set for a north-south shoot-out in their final game at Otley next Saturday . |
| 10 | Both sides in the 15-year civil war , the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ) government and the United States-backed National Union for Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) , blamed the other , and no date appeared to have been set for a resumption . |
| 11 | Piles of pessimistic reports from stockbrokers suggest that Hollywood is set for a crash . |
| 12 | When government delegates meet every two years to decide which species to add to or delete from the appendices , the scene is set for a battle between non-governmental conservation organisations , such as the World Wildlife Fund , and representatives of the pet industry and the fur trade , with both factions desperately trying to sell their points of view . |
| 13 | You have to design a character set for a computer with an 8-bit character . |
| 14 | Chelmsford , where sitting MP Simon Burns has at least 13,000 too many voters , is also set for a boundary shake-up but creation of a new constituency seems unlikely . |
| 15 | At the same time , milk yields had to be substantially increased and sustainable and the scene was set for a revolution in breeding and for the development of most of the modern breeds . |
| 16 | In due course my friendly farmer , Cyril Young , delivered four sheep to Oakington and everything was set for a bit of a barny at the Lion . |
| 17 | Indeed the whole issue of Sabbath observance could be set for a return to fashion . |
| 18 | Manchester trams are set for a return trip |
| 19 | Using the Mark 1 blue/grey set , complete with a Network SouthEast liveried coach , the scene was set for a return history period piece . |
| 20 | Hocine Ait Ahmed , leader of the Socialist Forces Front ( FFS ) , declined to attend , and reiterated on Feb. 10 that a date should be set for a return to a " democratic process " which should include the FIS . |
| 21 | Even Sir Geoffrey Howe unwittingly contributed to the general impression , as he addressed the Bow Group from an Opera House stage set for a performance of Cats . |
| 22 | KINGS of video action , Dolph Lundgren and Jean Claude Van Damme , team up in Universal Soldier which is set for a December 29 release on tape after a good run at cinemas . |
| 23 | River pollution nearly wiped out eel stocks in the Thames , but now the water 's cleaner it 's set for a revival . |
| 24 | NEWS CORPORATION is set for a fall in profits this year , mainly because of the haemorrhage of cash caused by losses on Sky Television , its satellite TV station . |
| 25 | DARLINGTON defender Kevan Smith is set for a recall against Bradford at Feethams tonight . |
| 26 | The stage is set for a showdown over a new constitution for Russia . |
| 27 | The second general assembly found the stage set for a show discussion , a darkened hall with the five speakers and their chairman in a blaze of lights . |
| 28 | The scene was set for a movie genius but what was important for the history of the movies was that the genius who emerged to push the medium and the industry into a new era was a self-educated romantic whose values and ideas had not been provided by any distinctive intellectual tradition or urban political party but rather had emerged first out of his Southern , rural , Methodist past and then as he had drifted through a rapidly changing America . |
| 29 | No date was set for a futher meeting . |
| 30 | Simply Red look set for a sellout concert at Gateshead this summer . |