Example sentences of "set [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In mid-March the Home Office was all set to go ahead with a White Paper based on last year 's policy report on cabling by Lord Hunt .
2 THREE of today 's four meetings are set to go ahead after an improvement in the weather .
3 Notice is set to go up in the local regsistrar 's office on Thursday , just 48 hours before they walk down the aisle .
4 What Ken , as technically-minded as ever , did n't notice was that all the clocks had been set to go off in the middle of the night — which , needless to say , they all did .
5 Some spotlights have a magnetic backplate so that they can be attached to any surface and pointed in any direction or can be set to swivel around inside a container .
6 Does the Secretary of State agree that , to obtain a balanced view , we must consider not only unemployment but employment and self-employment , which grew steadily during the 1980s under the Government and is set to grow further in the 1990s under the same Government ?
7 One of the strongest domestic fields for many years — including three previous winner of the race — is set to line up for the London Marathon on April 12 .
8 Both guitars have necks that are properly set to line up with the top of the bridges , and which are set up to give the correct amount of neck relief .
9 In this particular chair , as the back legs are set to tilt inwards towards the bottom , the shoulders will be angled from top to bottom of the rail .
10 Using a pre-set timer , the lights can be set to stay on for a period from 25 seconds to 12 minutes .
11 An analyst yesterday said the issue ‘ is set to get off to a good start ’ .
12 The first submarine , Vanguard , is set to roll out of the Devonshire dock hall in Barrow tomorrow and , following a series of sea trials , will enter service with the Royal Navy in the mid-1990s .
13 Terry Venables has been keen on the 23-year-old for months and armed with over £2million from the Stewart sale , is set to move in on the £1.2m-rated player .
14 MANAGEMENT buy-out activity picked up in 1992 and is set to improve further in the current year , according to the latest edition of the KPMG Peat Marwick Blue Book .
15 demographic trends show that the proportion of elderly people is set to rise dramatically over the next ten years .
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