Example sentences of "set off [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had set off on a sunny morning to paddle their canoes a short distance along the Dorset coastline from the St Albans Centre , Lyme Regis . |
| 2 | MOUNTAIN adventurer Rebecca Stephens was yesterday thought to have set off on the final stage of a climb which will make her the first British women to reach the top of Everest . |
| 3 | The most precious opals , including black opals the rainbow colours of which are set off against a sombre background , are those from the opal fields of Australia opened as lately as 1872 but not seriously exploited until the twentieth century . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ So it was set off by the simple act of turning on the lamp ? ’ |
| 7 | Despite the wear and tear of many a performance it 's still a cracking guitar , with its classically timeless shape beautifully set off by the tobacco-yellowed binding . |
| 8 | Here Alice and Philip exchanged , with their eyes , feelings about Jim ; exactly as people looked but did not speak , apprehensions over Faye — as if something there was too dangerous for words , or at least volatile , to be set off like a risky electronics device by an injudicious combination of sounds . |