Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subtle metallic sheens and bold black spots and lines set off with red areas of finnage , combine to produce a truly pretty fish . |
| 2 | On that first day we set off with high hopes of finding out what the foxes were doing and to work out where to concentrate our filming efforts . |
| 3 | Right hand gear change , non-synchromesh gearbox and in a very odd posture for driving , they set off for 5 laps in these amazing cars . |
| 4 | One of the greatest of all sports car road races ever run , the Mille Miglia was first held in 1927 and , by tradition , cars set off at one-minute intervals from the centre of Brescia , raced down to Rome and returned . |
| 5 | JUN 1992 TOP post boxes and notice boards set up at various locations around the site and in mess rooms to communicate TOP news . |
| 6 | Proposals by the neighbouring countries for the establishment of so-called safe havens ( similar to those set up for Kurdish civilians after the Gulf war ) were not taken up either , largely because they required the deployment of ground troops , for which there was no consensus . |
| 7 | From the end of the seventeenth century , turnpike trusts set up under private acts of parliament began to appear . |