Example sentences of "set apart [art] " in BNC.

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1 This balance was what set apart the New Testament view from its Greco-Roman surroundings .
2 If he makes a will , as most men do , it is almost certain that he will set apart a considerable proportion for the saying of masses ; if he should neglect to do so , and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries it is regarded as almost a sin to die without making a will , the Church ought to make the provision which he has failed to make for his soul .
3 It was not effectively designed as a movement to abolish , still less to limit , mass alcoholism , but to define and set apart the class of those individuals who had demonstrated by their personal force of character that they were distinct from the unrespectable poor .
4 It is set apart a little from Barnham Junction , where the trains for Bognor Regis leave the main line and around which has grown an early suburbia on the flat lands near the sea .
5 But we did have to wait until the chimpanzees completely accepted out presence before we were able to observe the other food-gathering behaviour that truly sets apart the forest chimpanzees — regular co-operative hunting .
6 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records in verse the hunting enthusiasm of the Norman Conqueror : ‘ He set apart a vast deer preserve and imposed laws concerning it .
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