Example sentences of "which set [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 An Ornaments Rubric included in the 1559 Prayer Book ordered the use of vestments and the alb and cope during the communion service ; and the 1559 injunctions required the clergy to wear the surplice during services , as well as their distinctive outdoor dress which set them apart from the laity .
2 I could write at greater length about the many qualities which set it way above the average .
3 The use in the emperor 's reply of the expression verba precaria is revealing , for it shows already a tendency to treat precatory words as characteristic of trusts , as something which sets them apart from the dispositions of the civil law .
4 Not much flavour , but a fibrous-to-spongy chewiness which sets it apart from the average savoury snack .
5 That is to say , it has no obvious or gross organic cause , such as a brain lesion , a fact which sets it apart from the truly neurological conditions — like , for example , Alzheimer 's disease or epilepsy .
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