Example sentences of "[be] set off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You are to set off at first light tomorrow . |
| 2 | When you go and buy your ticket and you 're setting off on that day |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It can then be set off on new cases . |
| 5 | The attacks came without warning and did n't seem to be set off by any direct thought about being moved . |
| 6 | All are designed to convert pre-existing contractual rights and obligations to net monetary rights and obligations , which may be set off against one another to produce the net sums referred to above . |
| 7 | If it was clearly intended that the ex gratia sum should include an element to cover the basic award , it will be set off against that award , but not otherwise . |
| 8 | In an action under the law of England and Wales or the law of Northern Ireland for damages for personal injuries ( including any such action arising out of a contract ) any saving to the injured person which is attributable to his maintenance wholly or partly at public expense in a hospital , nursing home or other institution shall be set off against any income lost by him as a result of his injuries . |
| 9 | David 's application was successful and along with nine other students he will shortly be setting off for one of eight specially selected Earthwatch projects for two weeks of hard work , learning and fun . |
| 10 | The façade is wonderfully elegant , the Baroque dressing being set off by superb windows . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They said they were setting off at nine o'clock as if to go |
| 13 | ‘ Now you are setting off on mad expeditions . ’ |
| 14 | All this is set off in grandiose fashion by the wide pearl binding . |
| 15 | In theory , it was set off by two boys who stole a can of soft drink from a third boy . |
| 16 | Now according to forensic it looks as if the explosion was set off by two sticks of gelignite and a couple of detonators trapped under the table and wired into the lamp that stood , as it were , beside the chairman 's right hand . |