Example sentences of "set [adv prt] from the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |