Example sentences of "set [adv] from the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A long ridge-walk requires an early start , and a companion and I set off from the hotel at 8.30 , toast crumbs still trembling on our lips , to attain the ridge by the first peak , Creag a' Mhaim . |
| 2 | They set off from the village of Arghuri on the morning of June 20th , in the year of Our Lord 1840 , accompanied only by their Kurdish guide . |
| 3 | The Pakistani authorities banned the proposed protest on Feb. 6 , and on Feb. 7 deployed 40,000 security personnel along the border and blockaded roads in and out of the Azad Kashmir capital of Muzaffarabad ; nevertheless , 7,000 JKLF supporters set off from the city on Feb. 11 . |
| 4 | There was a significant improvement on the other side of the viaduct , a Victorian class divide that had survived the years , and within two blocks he was walking down a tree-lined avenue composed of tall , detached houses set back from the road behind fair-sized gardens . |
| 5 | Set back from the road by a long drive and framed by a crescent of trees , Mains Hall is both an imposing and yet secluded 16th-century manor house with a romantic past — it was here that George IV courted his wife to be , Marie Fitzherbert . |
| 6 | ‘ So we set out from the beginning to be ‘ author-friendly ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The longer stretch which contains the Creole part of the turn , beginning with " I did n't mind " and ending " but to dance " — disrupts this pattern and is thus set off from the rest of the turn . |
| 9 | The London English sequence here is clearly set off from the rest of Brenda 's turn by its function , which is to elicit a " lost " piece of information . |
| 10 | The men on board the Firefly , a 25ft catamaran , had set off from the island on the return leg of the race when their craft began to ship water and threatened to founder . |
| 11 | In part it would appear that this has arisen from a tendency to see questions of housing and home life as matters of individual and privatised choice , to be set aside from the mainstream of political life where employment is the crucial issue . |
| 12 | Scottish Natural Heritage ( SNH ) has been formally set up from the merger of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland and the Countryside Commission for Scotland . |
| 13 | There 's a slightly different list in the table one produced by Mr , as from the erm the criteria which are set out from the section in paragraph one three of this paper . |
| 14 | It is set back from the road with a sweeping drive and an ornamental fish-pond in front , now stagnant . |
| 15 | The property is set back from the road behind a neat foregarden with tarmacadam driveway providing car parking on site and leading to the front entrance . |
| 16 | The property is set back from the road behind a stoned wall and a lawned garden with driveway leading to the front entrance . |
| 17 | Cranston roared with laughter and led Athelstan over to the far corner where a table and stools were set apart from the rest of the customers . |
| 18 | Once this conviction had been acquired , however , it became almost impossible to dislodge it , and they came to see themselves as an elite , chosen people permanently set apart from the majority of their unregenerate contemporaries . |
| 19 | The members of this new class did not own the means of production but they were set apart from the proletariat by possession of a distinct form of capital — intellectual capital . |
| 20 | So much for the talk on with the race … the mountain bikers hit the road first … 144 set off from the start in the centre of town … |
| 21 | Accompanied by his close friend the German geographer Hermann von Wissmann , he set out from the port of Mukalla and visited the cities of Shibam , Saywun and Tarim , closely studying the society and minutely describing the topography , geology , flora and fauna of the valley . |
| 22 | On June 11 the first truck convoy since the fall of Mengistu set out from the port of Assab towards Addis Ababa carrying fuel and food . |
| 23 | Far ahead of her , Sabine could see a cluster of buildings , obviously a farm , but on her left , set back from the road across an expanse of roughly cropped grass and stones , was a smaller property , whitewashed walls , and earth-red tiles , standing alone . |
| 24 | The Mercedes slid to a halt outside a fair-sized , 1930s detached house set back from the road by a small garden which had thoughtfully been concreted over . |
| 25 | The houses were spacious , detached , each one built to an individual design and set back from the road in well-kept gardens : it was the posh part of town . |
| 26 | Vic 's house , at the end of the village , was detached and set back from the road behind a neat lawn . |
| 27 | It had small , dark windows in a main building set back from the road behind a staff block and a perimeter wall of newer red brick . |