The phrase "are set to lay" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that something is planned or scheduled to happen, particularly in the context of laying something down or establishing something.
Example: "The construction team are set to lay the foundation for the new building next week."
Alternatives: "are scheduled to lay" or "are poised to lay".
The American firm is set to lay off 6,000 of its 28,000 American employees, owing to the fall in work.
Experian is set to lay off hundreds of staff as the credit-checking company comes to terms with a slump in spending by US and UK banks.
Connecticut is set to lay off 2,800 workers next month if the unions do not agree to cuts in their pay raises and a 5percentt increase in their health insurance premiums.
This came on the heels of report that states RIM is set to lay off a major chunk of its workforce.
Later this year, France is set to lay out how its banks will need to include climate factors in routine stress tests of their resilience to market shocks.
On the heels of a photo released last week that gave a first look at Yaya DaCosta done up as the late-singer, comes news that singer Deborah Cox is set to lay down the vocals.
Control and experimental crosses were set to lay at 25°C at the same time and were analyzed for viability at two time intervals: (1) from embryo (day 0) to pupation (day 5); and (2) from pupation (day 5) to adulthood (day 10).
The range of projections is pretty broad: GDP growth in 2001, for instance, is set to lie somewhere between 2.6% and 3.6%.
A Leica viewfinder resembles no other, because of the frame lines: thin white strips, parallel to each side of the frame, which show you the borders of the photograph that you are set to take — not merely the lie of the land within the shot, but also what is happening, or about to happen, just outside.
Not far beneath the slapstick humor and communitarian spirit of Mr. Gondry's movie (which had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last week and is set to open Feb. 22) lies a strong nostalgia for a technology that revolutionized home viewing but now seems destined for the dustbin of history.
