Example sentences of "set apart from " in BNC.

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1 That in and under the bread and wine , as Calvin put it , set apart from common use to this holy use to represent his body and blood , he feeds us with his very life I in you and you in me , I the vine and you the branches .
2 Political leaders , where they can be set apart from the party , may help to shape a party 's image .
3 Several other traits make Darras something of an outsider , set apart from French cultural orthodoxy .
4 Omissions cases falling within manslaughter by recklessness or gross negligence have also been set apart from cases of positive acts .
5 Through these discriminations of time , space and substances , they are to make themselves a holy people , set apart from the unholy people and things .
6 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 .
7 Bream that eat small fish are not a separate and distinct class of fish , or size of fish , set apart from other bream .
8 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 .
9 One such was Nicholas Winton , a young stockbroker set apart from his colleagues by his radical views .
10 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 ’ .
11 Charles , the bridegroom , was in some ways set apart from his three brothers ; for a start he appears to have been illiterate , whereas they were not , and also he was the only one who was not a cardmaker — or if he had learned the trade , he chose not to practise it .
12 None of the other superhuman beings is described as inherently shy or fearful , a further indication of their being conceptually set apart from human beings .
13 As such , humans fear them , and as such , they are firmly set apart from the Chewong .
14 Once this conviction had been acquired , however , it became almost impossible to dislodge it , and they came to see themselves as an elite , chosen people permanently set apart from the majority of their unregenerate contemporaries .
15 Despite increasing integration into the market , the village remained in large measure set apart from the world outside , regulating its own affairs through customary law under the tutelage of the police .
16 An early-fourteenth-century description of Gascony listed four counts and fifteen vicomtes among the upper nobility , set apart from the plèbe nobiliaire beneath them .
17 But more than this , we have a vivid sense of the loneliness of the human observer , set apart from his surroundings , and of " a mind energetically stretching to subdue a dazzling experience outside the self in a way that has innumerable counterparts elsewhere in Conrad " .
18 He seemed to inhabit his own world , set apart from them ; and Ruth hardly remembered it had once been her world too .
19 Like Baudelaire in Courbet 's painting of the artist 's studio , Minton is set apart from the central group both compositionally and by his introspection .
20 Despite increasing integration into the market , therefore , the village remained in large measure set apart from the world outside , regulating its own affairs through customary law under the tutelage of the police .
21 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 .
22 On the edge of the mound was a broad open area , set apart from the houses , overlooking the desert .
23 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 .
24 Although the poem contains such pessimistic overtones and pathetic acceptance of fate there is hope to be found in the last two lines which seem to be set apart from the rest .
25 Local initiative and pluralism , growth of decision-making centres , and space for individual/group autonomy would promote an active citizenry as opposed to individuals set apart from the authoritative state which has grown under the Conservatives in the last twelve years .
26 Nevertheless , Terling society was highly stratified ; by the later seventeenth century the ‘ better sort ’ were becoming increasingly set apart from the labouring poor .
27 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 .
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