Example sentences of "[verb] them apart from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the top of the social scale the five largest houses in 1670 had five hearths apiece , which was hardly grandiose but was sufficient to set them apart from the rest . |
| 2 | An Ornaments Rubric included in the 1559 Prayer Book ordered the use of vestments and the alb and cope during the communion service ; and the 1559 injunctions required the clergy to wear the surplice during services , as well as their distinctive outdoor dress which set them apart from the laity . |
| 3 | Throughout the training programme we discussed the ways in which people are disabled — not by limited ability but by a number of barriers that keep them apart from the activities that the rest of their communities are involved in . |
| 4 | Sir Walter Scott called barefoot and ragged wild mountain Scots lads ‘ gillie wetfoots ’ , saying he could not tell them apart from the fairies who ‘ beat the bushes ’ . |
| 5 | The use in the emperor 's reply of the expression verba precaria is revealing , for it shows already a tendency to treat precatory words as characteristic of trusts , as something which sets them apart from the dispositions of the civil law . |
| 6 | It set them apart from the start . |