Example sentences of "sets one " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stop sets one dog off barking and others join in . |
| 2 | The constitutional framework reflects and sustains that political culture by providing an almost paralysed political system that sets one branch against another and hamstrings those who aspire to lead . |
| 3 | At its offices in High Holborn in London , one of the firm 's partners explains why it sets one rate for all its customers . |
| 4 | There is , in fact , no place for any distinctions , for anything that sets one thing off against any other thing : limits , forms , conventions , individuals . |
| 5 | They talk about the ’ politics of envy ’ — a revealingly ugly , negative phrase that sets one person against another . |