Example sentences of "was set [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jamboree was set to culminate on April 26th with singing and dancing on the White House lawn . |
| 2 | There was now a captive market for British films , and that market would expand steadily through the ten years the act was set to remain on the statute book . |
| 3 | Finding the work ‘ quite fun ’ , from then on his commercial career was set to remain in the media industry , moving in 1980 to be director of Pearson 's information and entertainment division then , in 1984 , becoming managing director of Virgin group where , operationally , he was responsible for the record , video , entertainment and retail businesses ( including the group 's Megastores ) . |
| 4 | Voter registration was set to continue until July 31 . |
| 5 | According to official messages , the ‘ modernisers ’ still had the upper hand and the reform programme was set to continue in spite of the economic and social problems which had troubled the leaders throughout 1988 . |
| 6 | Lastly , the number of potential first-time buyers in their 20s was set to fall over the next two decades , reducing demand for homes . |
| 7 | He was set to go in the autumn , but he did not run away from that one — he got the editors of five friendly newspapers to run away for him . |
| 8 | He financed a short film , The Space Movie , in which Oldfield 's music was set to footage from the American space programme . |
| 9 | After a year of legal wrangling the trial on drugs-trafficking charges of former Panamanian leader Gen. Manuel Noriega was set to proceed on June 24 , 1991 . |
| 10 | The timebase was set to record at 15 second intervals . |
| 11 | The Treaty was formally signed by representatives of the Governments of the Twelve on 7 February 1992 , and was set to come into force on 1 January 1993 following Parliamentary ratification by each of the Member States ‘ or , failing that , on the first day of the month following the deposit of the instrument of ratification by the last signatory State to take this step ’ ( Article R ) . |
| 12 | Although inflation was set to drop in east Germany from 13.6 p.c. to 12 p.c. in 1992 , the actual inflation rate for the whole of Germany would be closer to 5 than 4 p.c . |
| 13 | Overall spending for environmental programmes was set to increase by $2,000 million , most of which would be spent on cleaning up radioactive and toxic waste at federal weapons facilities , preserving the country 's dwindling areas of wetland and researching into the effects of global warming . |
| 14 | Gross domestic product ( GDP ) was set to increase by an average annual rate of 7 per cent in 1991-2000 . |
| 15 | Defence spending was set to increase by nearly 6 per cent to Rs76,000 million . |
| 16 | Now turning to the , the the good news and that is that the Lincolnshire Flood Defence Committee was set to increase after ninety-four , five which is some twenty per cent below the normal three-four level . |
| 17 | Just a year ago the ever-amiable Franklin , traditionally coy about his age , was set to stand as a Conservative Against the Poll Tax in the Ribble Valley by-election . |
| 18 | A former Birmingham police officer , Finnegan was set to stand as Tory candidate for Stockton South at the 1983 general election but withdrew when it was disclosed he had been a National Front organiser . |
| 19 | He spent the first 12 months of his Hobart House reign in obscurity , in spite of repeated leaked reports suggesting the number of British mines was set to tumble to around a dozen . |
| 20 | The auction was set to begin at one and it was nearing that time when Cornelius finally met up once more with Tuppe . |
| 21 | The current Military Bases Agreement , first signed in 1947 and governing US control of the Clark Air Base and the Subic Bay Naval Base together with four smaller installations , was set to expire on Sept. 16 , 1991 . |
| 22 | Leeds coach Doug Laughton last night denied he was set to swoop for Widnes 's former Welsh union star Jonathan Davies . |
| 23 | LEEDS rugby league coach Doug Laughton last night denied he was set to swoop for Widnes 's former Welsh union star Jonathan Davies . |
| 24 | Despite his absence , the headlines that Ofahengaue was set to sign with St George still appeared . |
| 25 | This economic lodestar was set to achieve for the UK a reduction in interest rates , a break in the long-ingrained inflationary tendencies that have afflicted the UK economy since the war , and to increase the momentum of developing trade links between the UK and the EC . |
| 26 | Implementation originally was set to start on Oct. 1 , but in the light of developments in the USSR Supreme Soviet it was postponed to Nov. 1 . |
| 27 | The trial was set to start in early April 1992 . |
| 28 | The report projected a 3 per cent annual growth of per capita incomes in the developing world in the 1990s , with wide variations between east Asia , where income per capita was set to grow at 5.3 per cent , and sub-Saharan Africa , where the rate was expected to be only 0.5 per cent . |
| 29 | GDP was set to grow at around 3 per cent until 1997 , with unemployment declining slowly from 6.9 per cent in 1992 to 5.3 per cent in 1997 . |
| 30 | This indicates how the proponents of ‘ law and order ’ have picked up and run with the ball that was set rolling by the Justice Model , with very different effects from those that the Justice Model 's original advocates desired or expected . |