Example sentences of "was set [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If ever a stage production was set to enjoy a long run , it must be the work being put on by the Glasgow-based ensemble company , The Golden Age Theatre . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most entertaining tale came late afternoon , with anonymous telephone calls stating that a nosey employee of Marks & Spencer ( down 1 at 329p ) having been called in to deputy chairman Clinton Silver 's office , saw a piece of paper suggesting the retailer was set to bid the debt-laden supermarket group , Asda ( off ½ at 31p ) . |
| 3 | The wedding was set to give the royals their best publicity of the year . |
| 4 | As part of this , OLAS was set to provide a far higher level of user-related financial and management information . |
| 5 | British Foreign Office officials were quick to caution , however , that these remarks did not mean that Britain was set to launch a new peace initiative . |
| 6 | Waiter bought the restaurant after hearing that it was set to become a pizza parlour . |
| 7 | The veteran Shankill councillor was set to become the first outgoing Lord Mayor in Belfast 's history not to be re-elected . |
| 8 | LEICESTER City chairman Brian George yesterday dismissed growing speculation that former Darlington boss Brian Little was set to become the new mannager at Sunderland . |
| 9 | Columbia Pictures was set to premiere the 15 million movie at Christmas — but claim it wo n't be ready in time . |
| 10 | The tow was made fast , and paid out enough to keep the casualty synchronised on the second wave astern of the lifeboat , before a course was set to clear The Lizard . |
| 11 | An absurdly large raft of congressmen and senators was set to question the witnesses , sitting on a specially constructed double dais draped with burgundy cloth ; none wished to drop out of the committees and forfeit a screen appearance . |
| 12 | Now she was set to make a go of her programming business , and nothing was going to stop her . |
| 13 | At the end of September the picture was complicated by increasing evidence that the billionaire Ross Perot , who had campaigned as an undeclared candidate in the early stages of the race but then withdrawn [ see pp. 38997-98 ] , was set to make a formal declaration of his candidacy . |
| 14 | But it had been years , even then , since Elvis was top of the Hit Parade , and if all he had to offer the world was slicked-back hair and a sulky pout , the Dead Loss was set to slip a lot further down the charts , and Mary was n't going to be there to see it . |