Example sentences of "set off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half way through the meal Taff produced a bottle of red wine scrounged from H.Q It certainly tasted good and set off the meal . |
| 2 | In one place a television ‘ red head ’ ( 800 watt ) light set off the sprinkler system with hysterical results . |
| 3 | He found himself walking through Denver Airport one day with a hollowed-out Brazilian hand-grenade fitted with a Zippo lighter , a present from Singlaub to Calero : ‘ one of the scary things was that I walked right through … and I never set off the alarms . ’ |
| 4 | This work has had me taking this set off the shelf again and again . |
| 5 | Then he set off the expense of having a debtor arrested in this way , which failed to produce payment of the debt against the sums he recovered . |
| 6 | Police sources said it was the detonator — with a small package of Semtex at its core — which failed to ignite and set off the bags of nitrate-based fertiliser which were packed into the rear of the van . |
| 7 | Three hundred firemen and 400 policemen raced to the Hofburg after a smoke detector set off the alarm soon after midnight . |
| 8 | In this context Japan 's overwhelming dependence on imported oil set off the most severe economic recession since World War II and GNP actually fell by 1 per cent in 1974 after growing at an average rate of nearly 10 per cent in the previous six years . |
| 9 | Japanese handpainted pictures adorn the walls and set off the elegant porcelain figurines , while the walnut dining table is from Hong Kong . |
| 10 | Her face now against a tweed back , she fought for breath , struggled and pushed , moaning as another icy drop flowed down her body and set off the pain . |
| 11 | The wretched towns of lower Aragon , detested by liberal soldiers , became strongholds of Carlism and it was the desolation of decaying artisan towns that set off the polemics on the effectiveness of ecclesiastical charity . |
| 12 | It was the waste of national resources and , to a lesser extent , the amount of human suffering in rural Spain , that in the years 1766–73 set off the most remarkable attempt at agrarian reform that Spain was to know until the days of the Second Republic . |
| 13 | The black wings and running-board set off the sober mole colour of the body , and the President glowed as he proudly explained the working of the controls and gear lever , opened the doors to display the interior with its adjustable foot-rests for the rear-seat passengers and obliged a request from one admirer to see how much space there was in the luggage compartment at the back . |
| 14 | The proliferation of regional ale brands since the sector 's launch in 1988 made it difficult to build a national product that would kick-start it in the way that Perrier set off the mineral water market in the seventies . |
| 15 | He was dressed in a dark suit , expensively tailored , and a plain white shirt and bright silk tie that set off the crisp , glossy blackness of his hair . |
| 16 | Before she set off the following morning , she 'd visited the Maison du Vin , which was housed in a former medieval monastery . |
| 17 | and set off the smoke-alarm |
| 18 | She says it slipped and set off the magic eye which set the baler off which crushed the bottom part of my leg causing me to lose the tissue and muscle from my ankle up to my shin . |
| 19 | But the Mobbs had a panic button in the house , and Mrs Mobbs set off the alarm . |
| 20 | All went well until about half way through the demonstration when fumes from some hot oil wafted into the smoke detector above the hob and set off the hotel 's fire alarm . |
| 21 | Oh I thought you said he had a fag and he set off the alarm . |