Example sentences of "set off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they set off the following year on a tour of Australia and New Zealand , William , as well as two nannies and acres of baggage , went too . |
| 2 | Some of its leading citizens acquired great wealth , especially from saffron and wine , and landed property , in the course of the twelfth century , and they displayed their newfound status by building the lofty towers which still make the skyline of the city so beautiful and so absurd — beautiful especially from a little distance , for the rolling Tuscan hills set off the imaginative colour and the dramatic skyline to remarkable effect . |
| 3 | It is ironic that Godoy was overthrown and treated with ignominy as a traitor at the moment when he had decided to resist Napoleon : it was his plan to remove the king to Seville , out of the way of the French , which set off the Tumult of Aranjuez . |
| 4 | First came the preliminary soundings ( the trabajos ) and the winning over of officers and sergeants by a small activist group in touch with civilian conspirators ; then the compromisos by which accomplices were bound to action ; finally the chosen leaders set off the last stage by the cry — the grito . |
| 5 | The adrenaline makes her giggle , and still rising noradrenaline levels set off the familiar beat of passion . |
| 6 | The dogs were set off by it and the dogs set off the sheep and the goats and the cows . |
| 7 | Much of his conversation , uttered in the flat voice which set off the originality of the content , conveyed in this way infinite nuances of banter and irony . |
| 8 | Another surfaced in African Analaysis suggesting it was an Israeli atomic bomb test which set off the fatal discharge of poisonous gases and the monstrous tidal wave from the lake that swamped the surrounding countryside . |