Sentence examples for set to float from inspiring English sources

"This is causing companies which had been set to float to postpone their plans.

Standard Life looks set to float on the stock market in July, subject to members approving demutualisation plans at the end of May, it was announced today.

Large tin cans were used as well, either set to float like the keg torpedoes or placed on top of vertical stakes in river beds and bays to impale passing ships.

A peer-to-peer lender founded above a waffle shop in London by a group of University of Oxford graduates is set to float on the stock market in a deal that could value it at nearly £2 billion.

Take those peas: cooked just enough that there's still bite, with weeny cubes of blanched celery, fronds of celery leaf, torn nasturtium leaves and a mound of mousse so light it looks set to float off the plate.

AIA is set to float its shares later this year in Hong Kong to tap more than $2 billion, while ALI is seeking $5 billion in an IPO.

The white region of this image represents that all of the pixels in this region are set to the floating point.

Each clip is set to appear and float through the space for a minute and then suddenly disappear, while elsewhere in the exhibition other projections turn on at random.

Several students selected by the city and the Americana at Brand are set to ride the float on New Year's Day.

Her architecture firm is set to work on a floating village with the firm Carillion Igloo Genesis in Royal Victoria Docks in London, and she added that the surprising thing is how broadly attractive such homes have proven in the Netherlands: "We thought this is housing for young urban people but strangely people with children started to go there, attracted by an outside location.

During the Civil War, both sides sent hot-air balloons rigged with explosives (set to drop by timer) floating over each other's lines.