Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fame of Aÿ was at its peak , and its wines were set apart from other growths ; as beautifully understated by Paulmier in his treatise De Vino et Pomaceo ( Paris , 1588 ) , Aÿ was ‘ the ordinary drink of kings and princes ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Anywhere that was obviously occupied he drove on past , as he did with any place that was exposed or too close to the main road , but deserted-looking buildings on village outskirts and elevated rows that were set back from the road generally rated at least a circling-around and a second look . |
| 5 | Keeping under cover , Adam followed a group who were setting off from their barracks . |
| 6 | A third dummy was in a seated position on the fourth chair which was set away from the table . |
| 7 | Kevin Price gave us a glimpse of what was to follow with a clever break and when the ball was set up from the resulting ruck , Paul Flood was equally successful with a drop goal . |
| 8 | The £10 million sun and sangria soap was set up from scratch in just six months . |
| 9 | It was generosity and wisdom I was after when I climbed up the steps to her small office which was set apart from the larger huts in the forest clearing . |
| 10 | Rome was set apart from her neighbours by her ancient fame and lasting prestige — and yet , in these centuries , one can not but think , far more by the presence of the apostles and martyrs , and of the pope . |
| 11 | Unlike the capitalist social relations of interwar France in which the writer/intellectual was set apart from his/her real and potential reading public , a distant and alienated specialist " , the new social relations of Soviet society appeared to provide the writer/intellectual with a pivotal role in social construction . |
| 12 | In about the middle of the eighteenth century , John Zoffany , a portrait painter , arrived in England , and although not regularly accepted at first , he became friendly with Garrick and other actors which lifted his prospects , so he took a lease of a house called ‘ London Style ’ , which was set back from the north bank of the River Thames , just east of Kew Bridge , but later his wife and children occupied a house on the river front on Strand-on-the-Green , which house was named after the painter . |