Example sentences of "set off [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detonator exploded but failed to set off main charge . |
| 2 | Some work on electronic beams , while others are activated by air movement — just opening the door can be enough to set off this type . |
| 3 | The up-front payment mentioned in Clause 1 of this Schedule will be used to set off this advance payment until such time as it is used up . |
| 4 | Hollywood was the biggest carnival he had ever seen and he was like a box of fireworks set off all at once . |
| 5 | Coleridge , still lame , chafed at his own confinement , especially when his friends set off one evening towards the hills , leaving him useless and lonely in Tom Poole 's garden arbour . |
| 6 | The house had been designed to make the most of natural materials , from the hand-hewn greenish slates of the roof to the cool grey stone walls which set off various shrubs and some of the roses he had spoken of . |
| 7 | These ideas are the ‘ triggers ’ which set off new lines of thought . |
| 8 | Mother , father and six children set off first by train in open cattle trucks . |
| 9 | Some of these issues set off fewer alarm bells today and perhaps for most of us they are of less social concern . |
| 10 | Before they set off last year , Aileen hoped to raise the ambitious total of £30,000 needed to pay for two extra domiciliary workers at the Trust headquarters at Great Bookham — but it was not to be . |
| 11 | Set off last October to mark the anniversary of the explorer 's birth , all but one of the balloons are believed to have drifted out to sea . |
| 12 | BOGOTA ( Reuter ) — Suspected drug traffickers set off 12 bombs , injuring 35 people , in the latest round of violence here linked to the country 's cocaine war , authorities said . |
| 13 | There are fears that the acquittal of William Lozano will set off renewed riots in a city fraught with racial tension between Hispanic and black communities . |
| 14 | Many people ( especially bankers ! ) claim that default by a major debtor government like Mexico or Brazil could set off financial shock-waves that would make the Black Monday stock market crash of October 1987 look like a hiccup . |
| 15 | She was too tired now to walk over the moor but she would set off first thing in the morning . |
| 16 | He was very different from the dour young man who 'd set off all those years ago . |
| 17 | Menstrual cycles can set off specific urges . |
| 18 | I 'd I 'd set off watery moves it must be I 'd set |
| 19 | Twice in the last decade police shootings of blacks have set off extensive rioting . |
| 20 | Tony Tucker , a director of syndications and asset trading at Continental Bank in London , reckons that GPA 's woes have set off new competition among brokers of distressed bank debt . |
| 21 | We find similar striking juxtapositions in the finale of the ‘ Jupiter Symphony , where the contrast between the signs helps set off two of the five main motives of the movement : the angular four-note motive with its downward leaps of a 5th and a 7th is marked throughout the movement by strokes , and the linear , stepwise ascending six-note motive is marked throughout by dots . |
| 22 | Attention changed to hilarity when the unfortunate NCO instructor accidentally set off one of his own trip flares . |
| 23 | The killings had set off widespread rioting in the occupied territories and in Jordan . |
| 24 | You see a familiar name and it sets off all sorts of memories . |
| 25 | Similarly , reception of certain stimuli , usually by specialized neuronal receptors , sets off appropriate responses to the appearance of food , a predator , or a potential mate . |
| 26 | Najma , who has a degree in chemical engineering , sets off next Saturday on a tour arranged by the Arts Council -funded Asian Music Circle starting at Dundee University . |
| 27 | Soft surrounding planting sets off spiky , yellow-bloomed bog irises |
| 28 | He had only a second to stare at a page before setting off various alarm spells , but that was time enough for one spell to leap from it and settle in his memory like a toad in a stone . |
| 29 | All of this was contained within long classical façades , with corner pavilions setting off all four sides . |
| 30 | The precision of this inference goes well beyond what is explicitly present in the report , which acts rather like a trigger setting off one of two pre-existing possibilities . |