Example sentences of "[noun sg] set off [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soft surrounding planting sets off spiky , yellow-bloomed bog irises |
| 2 | And is a more textbook fear involved : does the image of pulsing blubber set off some terror of being transported back to the womb ? ) |
| 3 | For this was Gold Cup day , and Norton 's Coin had a very small supporting role in a performance that Thursday afternoon which would see the hugely popular grey Desert Orchid set off fresh waves of fanaticism with a second victory in the most coveted prize of the National Hunt season . |
| 4 | The precision of this inference goes well beyond what is explicitly present in the report , which acts rather like a trigger setting off one of two pre-existing possibilities . |
| 5 | If the thought comes into my head that a careless remark has just hurt a friend or made an enemy , ‘ Be expression in his apparently untroubled face set off this vague disquiet . |