Example sentences of "[be] set off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have been promised permanent showing : they have been given carefully considered hanging , and in some cases have chosen the position themselves ; their works are set off with surprising poise by the predominantly green and white college buildings and gardens , a complex severe and playful at once , severe in its geometry and playful in its romanesque quotations . |
| 2 | It can then be set off on new cases . |
| 3 | The façade is wonderfully elegant , the Baroque dressing being set off by superb windows . |
| 4 | Indeed Gow 's appearance was formidable , an uncompromisingly Scottish kind of countenance being set off by bushy eyebrows and side-whiskers , and anything like conceit or pretentiousness on the part of a pupil might provoke a wounding sarcasm . |
| 5 | ‘ Now you are setting off on mad expeditions . ’ |
| 6 | All this is set off in grandiose fashion by the wide pearl binding . |