Sentence examples for set to surprise from inspiring English sources

French director Jacques Audiard is set to surprise fans by making his next film a musical.

Well crap, we were all set to surprise the living SHIT out of you next issue by announcing the release of the first Dear Diary book this summer (oh who are we kidding, you already knew), but evidently those strident libby types over at the Huffington Post done scooped us.

The Pet Shop Boys, Rita Ora and Sub Focus are among some of the musical acts - among a host of other planned entertainment - set to make surprise appearances at the Games.

HBO's Emmy-award winning Big Little Lies is officially coming back for another season, with Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman set to star a surprise move for a limited series that didn't plan on filming a second season from the start.

This year the Booker prize judges set out to surprise, and succeeded.

Waterstones fiction buyer, Chris White said he felt that "the judges have certainly set out to surprise me this year".

Back in February, we noted that Apple was lining up for a fall "surprise" and had heard that a new version of the iPad was set to be that surprise.

The party maintained throughout the campaign that it would do better than the polls predicted, with Clegg claiming it was set to be the "surprise story".

But as revealed on the show, the band canceled because of its obligations to MTV's awards, where, Mr. Colbert seemed happy to note, Daft Punk was set to make a "surprise" appearance on Aug. 25.

James took a year away from the sport after the Beijing Games and was injured for much of 2010 but had looked set to cause a surprise against the strong favourites with his new crew-mate.

He thinks the companies, both set to report earnings next week, might surprise the market with worse-than-expected guidance.