Example sentences of "[adj] set to " in BNC.

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1 However , the largest of these in 1892 set to work only 253 out of 716 applicants in West Ham , converting wasteland to allotments at 6d. an hour for 45 hours work per week .
2 She looked all set to be a book-a-year person once she had the initial break .
3 The Graduate looked all set to be his first , but Ernest Lehman , who was producing and adapting Edward Albee 's acid drama of marital non-bliss , Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? , persuaded Warner Bros to hire the untried Nichols .
4 Ruby Tiger was third as well in her race , but it was User Friendly who became the Princess of Longchamp yesterday — all set to be crowned Queen next year .
5 The remaining bit positions in the destination are either all left unchanged or all set to zero ( the latter being equivalent to logical " And " ) .
6 We were all set to be impressed , but when we entered the room , it turned out that she was a tiny-little lady with grinning peasant features and the usual pudding-basin haircut .
7 Programmes to be cancelled or phased out ( subject to post-Gulf war evaluation ) included the navy 's F-14D fighter aircraft and Trident submarine , the airforce 's Maverick missile and F-15E and F-16 fighter aircraft and the army 's M-1 tank , Apache helicopter and Bradley fighting vehicle ; the remaining two US battleships , Missouri and Wisconsin , were both set to be decommissioned in September 1991 .
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