Example sentences of "be set off [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Guv'nor says you 're to set off on the side nearest him , ’ Bob said briefly . |
| 2 | Or suppose you 're setting off on a driving tour of Spain and you do n't speak the language . |
| 3 | The blinking was a reflex which could equally well have been set off by a puff of wind or a flash of light . |
| 4 | I 've worked in a number of centres where the fire alarm has been set off by the heat from our lights . |
| 5 | The trend of judge-made law may be set off by a case involving an atypical trade or may be located in a consumer transaction . |
| 6 | Moreover , a similar or larger proportion claim either to enjoy the frequent change of tasks and environment , the flexibility of " temping " and of being able to take spells off between assignments , or to have commitments which make continuous working impossible ; even if , as one recent survey ( Manpower , 1986 ) showed , this was Sometimes to be set off against a feeling of employment insecurity . |
| 7 | The balance on a client account may not be set off against a sum owed to LCH on any other kind of account . |
| 8 | There , it is provided that there shall be set off against the tax charged on any amount treated by virtue of the section as income of the settlor for any year an amount equal to : 1 . |
| 9 | In the September 1992 issue of ACCOUNTANCY ( see p 111 ) , we reported a case before the Court of Appeal in which the Court was asked to make a declaration as to whether MS Fashions Ltd and MS Fashions ( Wholesale ) Ltd could be required to pay to Touche Ross , the liquidator of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International , the whole of a combined overdraft of £600,000 , or whether a deposit with BCCI by Mr Sarwar of £300,000 , which had been used as a security for the overdrafts , could be set off against the sum of £600,000 under Rule 4.90 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 . |
| 10 | Without any application to the court , the mortgagee , if his mortgage is a conveyance of the legal estate or ownership , may take possession ; but this course is hazardous , since he may be called upon in a redemption action to account strictly not only for profits actually received by him , but also for those which he might but for his default have received , and all such profits , so far as they exceed the interest due for the time being , must be set off against the principal . |
| 11 | Why did you suppose we were setting off with a stretcher and torches , at this time of night ? ’ |
| 12 | The taxi driver who left us at the station , enchanted by the idea that we were setting off for the source of the Nile , refused to accept any fare . |
| 13 | At Westons cidermill in Much Marcle , Herefordshire three hundred revellers are setting off for the apple orchards.They 're following in the footsteps of their pagan ancestors in the hopes of ensuring a bumper harvest . |
| 14 | MOST of Europe 's unmarried royals are setting off on a cruise on Norway 's fjords next week , giving hopes for at least one blue-blooded romance . |
| 15 | If a stimulus is below a certain intensity , the threshold , no impulse is set off along the fibre . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A MOTHER has condemned thieves who stole the wheels off the family car just before her cancer victim daughter was to set off for a hospital check up . |
| 19 | The earlier student strike , in April , was set off by the dismissal of law teacher Dominic Mngomezulu , which students believed was due to his union activities . |