Example sentences of "[noun] be set off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His broad shoulders and powerful legs were set off to perfection by the excellent cut , while a snow-white silk shirt emphasised his tanned , rugged face . |
| 2 | But he stood there watching until the little car had disappeared , as though Ellen were setting off on a long and dangerous journey from which she might never return . |
| 3 | After my four days Ken was to set off on his own curtailed family holiday . |
| 4 | In this sale of French furniture eighteenth and nineteenth-century work is set off by pieces especially created by François Linke for the 1900 International Exhibition in Paris . |
| 5 | David Hempleman-Adams is setting off in search of the Geomagnetic North pole in April . |
| 6 | Another man in another village was setting off for the fields , his hoe over his shoulder . |
| 7 | The dogs were set off by it and the dogs set off the sheep and the goats and the cows . |
| 8 | Domestic air flights were suspended on the receipt of bomb threats , four buses were fire-bombed and a small explosive device was set off in front of the CGT headquarters in Buenos Aires . |
| 9 | Now according to forensic it looks as if the explosion was set off by two sticks of gelignite and a couple of detonators trapped under the table and wired into the lamp that stood , as it were , beside the chairman 's right hand . |
| 10 | If a stimulus is below a certain intensity , the threshold , no impulse is set off along the fibre . |
| 11 | The whole collection was set off by the saxe-blue Jacobean embroidery thrown over the shelves on which the pieces were carefully arranged . |
| 12 | In addition £219.9m was set off against share premium account in 1988 under s 133 , CA 1985 and not recorded in the accounts . |
| 13 | MOST of Europe 's unmarried royals are setting off on a cruise on Norway 's fjords next week , giving hopes for at least one blue-blooded romance . |
| 14 | They have been promised permanent showing : they have been given carefully considered hanging , and in some cases have chosen the position themselves ; their works are set off with surprising poise by the predominantly green and white college buildings and gardens , a complex severe and playful at once , severe in its geometry and playful in its romanesque quotations . |
| 15 | The façade is wonderfully elegant , the Baroque dressing being set off by superb windows . |
| 16 | Other devices are less consistently adopted , but it will be noticed that in ( 2 ) , as often , the non-restrictive clause is set off from the rest of the sentence by commas . |
| 17 | Gav is setting off from Oxford , I am setting off from West London . |
| 18 | A MOTHER has condemned thieves who stole the wheels off the family car just before her cancer victim daughter was to set off for a hospital check up . |
| 19 | Sophia herself was wearing a green jersey suit and a small hat , but she felt that she did not look so absolutely right as Ianthe , whose plain blue woollen dress was set off by a feather-trimmed hat which had just the right touch of slightly dowdy elegance — if there could be such a thing . |
| 20 | Indeed Gow 's appearance was formidable , an uncompromisingly Scottish kind of countenance being set off by bushy eyebrows and side-whiskers , and anything like conceit or pretentiousness on the part of a pupil might provoke a wounding sarcasm . |
| 21 | At Westons cidermill in Much Marcle , Herefordshire three hundred revellers are setting off for the apple orchards.They 're following in the footsteps of their pagan ancestors in the hopes of ensuring a bumper harvest . |
| 22 | The hospital spokesman said it was believed a smoke alarm was set off by someone having a cigarette in a toilet . |
| 23 | This is the life down on the Copacobana beach in Rio … sun shining … waves crashing in on the sand … and its here that Liz Macdonald from Gloucester is setting off on the second leg of the British Steel Challenge … she 's on board the Nuclear Electric yacht … from Rio they round Cape Horn and head for Hobart … they 'll be racing for six weeks … |