Example sentences of "[adv] set for " in BNC.

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1 Calm down , Bina , it 'll be OK — magic , I 'll have shot through the lot — straight As , I 'll be all set for anything : research physicist , brain surgeon , professor of semiotic philology …
2 The scene was all set for a pitched battle .
3 With the gun under my arm I was all set for the evening .
4 The man all cricket knows as Syd was all set for action … after a year long fight for fitness … and then on saturday in the gym fate struck again
5 The man all cricket knows as Syd was all set for action … after a year long fight for fitness … and then on saturday in the gym fate struck again
6 Mills all set for ‘ return ’ to Glens
7 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 .
8 Now , with the Hollywood movie Not Without My Daughter , in which he stars opposite Sally Field , due out later this year , it looks as if he 's finally set for international fame .
9 Beset by rioting , strikes and murders since March , as students and citizens demanded , and were promised , political reform , Togo remained tense throughout May pending the planned national conference on its political future , which was finally set for June 10-20 .
10 The date for the long-awaited fourth PCC congress was finally set for Oct. 11 , 1991 .
11 THE stage is finally set for what promises to be an unforgettable performance of one of Shakespeare 's finest plays .
12 This takes the module programme of each student in turn , finds the best set for each module , and assigns the student to those sets .
13 When Rose saw the table already set for morning , she said , ‘ If you were around for too long I 'd be spoiled rotten .
14 The scene was already set for Charles to become a new Western Emperor .
15 In ‘ random mode ’ , the time controller will switch an appliance on and off at random intervals during the four ON periods already set for the programme mode .
16 The table was already set for high tea , with ham , bread and butter and a very yellow cake .
17 ( March 10 was the date already set for the dissolution of Parliament in advance of the general election . )
18 The scene is thus set for large-scale reductivist paraphrases , which in different ontological theories take on different forms , depending upon what kind of entities are regarded as basic .
19 Watering troughs for horses were installed throughout cities and standards were gradually set for livery stables , slaughter houses and other facilities handling animals .
20 He took her arm and led her to the dining room , where the gleaming long rectangular table had been impeccably set for two .
21 Landis & Gyr 's new system in the new Forte Hotel in Exeter , Devon , for example , is usually set for guest and function rooms to be controlled at 20°C between 6am and 10am and from 4pm to midnight .
22 Even the awkward , the misfits , the discontented , feel a lessening of their misery when they realize they have a place , specially set for them , at a dinner which has been the subject of much thought , care , and several hours of preparation .
23 Having photographed these averagely attractive , effectively anonymous members nestled amongst feathers , emerging from a bunch of Iris buds , tucked up with a wad of £10 notes , or wrapped up in black fishnet material , the stage is ostensibly set for the viewer to compare these peculiar juxtapositions with those more commonly seen in the media where the female body is used instead .
24 It was the sort of pit once set for tigers , with stakes on the floor on which you got impaled if ever you fell in .
25 The 10/41 has one CPU , 1Mb cache and comes in June ; the 10/402 with dual 40MHz chips and the 10/512 , with dual 50MHz processors and 1Mb cache are both set for the fourth quarter ; a four-processor 45MHz model is planned for first quarter 1994 .
26 The 10/41 has one CPU , 1Mb cache and comes in June ; the 10/402 with dual 40MHz chips and the 10/512 , with dual 50MHz processors and 1Mb cache are both set for the fourth quarter ; a four-processor 45MHz model is planned for first quarter 1994 .
27 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 .
28 Similarly , hearing increased in importance both for the information it gave about the environment in general , and for communication within the species ; hence the stage was also set for language to be born .
29 Dates were also set for the enforcement of measures related to maritime transport , industrial , technical , agricultural and energy policy , and for the co-ordination of macro-economic policies , labour relations and institutional matters .
30 As Wright Mills observed in his critique , ‘ The Professional Ideology of Social Pathologists ’ : ‘ If the members of an academic profession are recruited from similar social contexts and if their backgrounds and careers are relatively similar , there is a tendency for them to be uniformly set for some common perspective ’ .
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