Example sentences of "is set [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DROP DEAD FRED is set to be this year 's A FISH CALLED WANDA ! |
| 2 | The loss of face suffered in Seoul , where the Japanese men won just one gold medal , is set to be corrected . |
| 3 | THE INTERNATIONAL trade in threatened species of wild orchids is set to be banned , it was announced yesterday . |
| 4 | This virtuous circle , in which labour is rewarded for its genuine efforts , capital is given a return and quality improves , is set to be blown apart if Labour is in government on Friday . |
| 5 | As more and more PCs are networked together , such group productivity software is set to be the success story of the 1990s . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , as AMEC was at pains to point out yesterday , for the next couple of years making money from housebuilding is set to be a struggle . |
| 7 | The exception , at West Sussex , has an attractive location in the South East and is set to be modernised and automated . |
| 8 | COMEDY is set to be one of the strong suits of Meridian which takes over the TVS area and its 5.2 million viewers . |
| 9 | CHRIS KAMARA is set to be priced out of a move to Sheffield United . |
| 10 | A MAP which cost 27p is set to be sold at auction for up to Pounds 18,000 . |
| 11 | And now Butcher is set to be the first big name to move into management . |
| 12 | LENNOX LEWIS is set to be crowned Britain 's first heavyweight champion for 95 years — and to defend his title against George Foreman . |
| 13 | SNAP is set to be fronted by TWO girl singers . |
| 14 | PUBLIC spending is set to be slashed in a desperate Government bid to save the pound , two Cabinet ministers said yesterday . |
| 15 | At once cerebral and aware of the business at hand , The Shamen turn Techno into positivist ( ignore the connotations ) poetry and the soon-come single ‘ Love , Sex , Intelligence ’ is set to be an anthem , pitched as it is exactly at the right level , ie not over our heads . |
| 16 | Pearse , the former Wallaby flanker , intends to establish his own sports marketing company and the NSWRU is set to be his first client . |
| 17 | Open systems are also likely to play a part in the Highlands economy which is set to be revitalised thanks to the ISDN telecommunications system recently installed by British Telecommunications Plc in the area . |
| 18 | The French minister of industry , Dominique Strauss-Kahn , Thursday announced that the French government has paid SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV the first part of the $466m in research and development aid it agreed to pay over five years — the Italian government is supposed to pay the same amount over the same period : ‘ I have signed with SGS-Thomson a contract for a multi-year development effort in France ; the sums for 1993 , $83m from both sides , have been paid , ’ he said ; a spokeswoman for SGS-Thomson in Paris said she had not yet been able to confirm Strauss-Kahn 's assertion ; the separate recapitalisation , which Brussels recently approved , is still conditional on a firm decision being taken on the Italian side , and would be effected in three payments — $227m split evenly between the two partners and an identical payment three months later ; the third payment of $455m is set to be made in 1995 . |
| 19 | A new European initiative to push the future direction of operating systems is set to be announced today , with the announcement of ‘ Ouverture ’ — a 14 million ECU ( around $17.5m ) project supported by the Commission for the European Communities ' Esprit programme . |
| 20 | ‘ The cost of the venture is set to be high enough , and I can envisage no return which will provide the treasury with recompense . ’ |
| 21 | The word ‘ typewriter ’ in this example is set to be in italics . |
| 22 | The race is set to be one of the star attractions in the second of the trial Sunday meetings on November 15 . |
| 23 | The winner is set to be some half a million pounds better off . |
| 24 | The distinctive facade of an Edwardian warehouse is set to be the focal point of a magnificent new office and retail development in Chelsea . |
| 25 | The new dispenser system is set to be phased in on other BNFL sites at a later date . |
| 26 | A boycott campaign aimed at hitting Timex products is set to be wound up . |
| 27 | The world 's rarest horse , Equus przewalskii , is set to be reintroduced to its Mongolian homeland after a successful captive breeding programme , which has produced around 1,000 of the animals . |
| 28 | 60 people on the studio floor are involved in putting together ITV 's newest music show , which is set to be a hit . |
| 29 | — FIT-AGAIN striker Andrew Fletcher is set to be recalled to Scarborough 's side for the long trip to Maidstone on Saturday . |
| 30 | A scheme to build eight houses on land at Prospect Place , Thornton Dale , is set to be approved by the North York Moors National Park authority despite strong protests from neighbours and Ryedale District Council . |