Example sentences of "set off [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hollywood was the biggest carnival he had ever seen and he was like a box of fireworks set off all at once . |
| 2 | Coleridge , still lame , chafed at his own confinement , especially when his friends set off one evening towards the hills , leaving him useless and lonely in Tom Poole 's garden arbour . |
| 3 | The house had been designed to make the most of natural materials , from the hand-hewn greenish slates of the roof to the cool grey stone walls which set off various shrubs and some of the roses he had spoken of . |
| 4 | These ideas are the ‘ triggers ’ which set off new lines of thought . |
| 5 | Mother , father and six children set off first by train in open cattle trucks . |
| 6 | Some of these issues set off fewer alarm bells today and perhaps for most of us they are of less social concern . |
| 7 | Before they set off last year , Aileen hoped to raise the ambitious total of £30,000 needed to pay for two extra domiciliary workers at the Trust headquarters at Great Bookham — but it was not to be . |
| 8 | Set off last October to mark the anniversary of the explorer 's birth , all but one of the balloons are believed to have drifted out to sea . |
| 9 | BOGOTA ( Reuter ) — Suspected drug traffickers set off 12 bombs , injuring 35 people , in the latest round of violence here linked to the country 's cocaine war , authorities said . |