Example sentences of "[noun pl] set [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Three sets of lights later , they came into the town centre , a wide boulevard that sloped up a hill with the shops and offices set back from the pavement . |
| 3 | Steve , 39 , from Primrose Street , was due to be among the drivers setting out from Edinburgh for the gruelling trip to Monaco . |
| 4 | Local initiative and pluralism , growth of decision-making centres , and space for individual/group autonomy would promote an active citizenry as opposed to individuals set apart from the authoritative state which has grown under the Conservatives in the last twelve years . |
| 5 | The English colonies looked rather like colonies of the Greek type , where emigrants set out from their native city to launch a new city and , while often cherishing a deep affection for the city that they had left , did not acknowledge a political obligation to obey it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The teams set off from Liverpool for Beaune in France on the sponsored run that will raise thousands of pounds for the Macmillan Nurse Appeal , now nearing its target to fund four new hospital support Macmillan Nurses on Merseyside . |
| 8 | Charles , the bridegroom , was in some ways set apart from his three brothers ; for a start he appears to have been illiterate , whereas they were not , and also he was the only one who was not a cardmaker — or if he had learned the trade , he chose not to practise it . |
| 9 | If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract . |
| 10 | The group of officers , cadets and badgers set off from Broad Street pushing their bed with 16-year-old Glyn Matthews inside dressed in bonnet and nappy . |
| 11 | She had seen so many of the students set out from her door , awkward and anxious , and after a few weeks it was as if they had been studying there all their lives . |