Example sentences of "[is] set off " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general policy is to set off overpayments in the manner that is most advantageous to the taxpayer . |
| 2 | It seems to me perhaps , under the circumstances , the furthe the best that I can do is to set off er up a er cutoff date for objectors of the end of this coming Monday . |
| 3 | How easy it is to set off speculation . |
| 4 | Here is a passage about a picture by Judy Rifka : ‘ In Square Dress , a dancer , seen from above , is set off against an exuberant field of abstract color patches and architecturally evocative lines and circles . |
| 5 | This takes a similar form to the Arch of Peace and is set off by the extended , arcaded arms that drift along the edge of the square . |
| 6 | All this is set off in grandiose fashion by the wide pearl binding . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Deviation is managed and progressively denied by continual renegotiation of the social reality against which it is set off . |
| 9 | The luxurious cream decor is set off beautifully by the patterned curtains . |
| 10 | Your smallest actions sets off another somewhere else , and is set off by it . |
| 11 | ( ABOVE LEFT ) LAURA 'S STRIKING BLACK AND WHITE OUTFIT IS SET OFF PERFECTLY AGAINST BERNARD 'S LOTUS ELITE . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If a stimulus is below a certain intensity , the threshold , no impulse is set off along the fibre . |
| 14 | Well like I mean we all know what a bell is , a bell which is set off by by a human body coming in . |
| 15 | The Pope , a conservative whose grip on the reins of power has never been firmer , is setting off on a tour of the Far East on Friday . |
| 16 | Gav is setting off from Oxford , I am setting off from West London . |
| 17 | David Hempleman-Adams is setting off in search of the Geomagnetic North pole in April . |
| 18 | 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 … |