Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [art] alarm " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's if we 're not going to set off the alarm system ! ’ |
| 2 | in a garage , where exhaust fumes could set off the alarm . |
| 3 | This may also involve physically not going to places ( e.g. the staffroom ) or meeting people ( your head of department ) who might set off the alarm by mistake . |
| 4 | Even brief air disturbance will set off the alarm . |
| 5 | Humiliating and unrealistic conditions should set off an alarm in the coalition 's collective head : they carry echoes from 1919 of Versailles , the treaty that ended ‘ the war to end all wars ’ and brought Europe , and the world , a new era of instability . |
| 6 | It is a radar detector which sets off an alarm if a ship , with radar working , is in the vicinity . |
| 7 | Three hundred firemen and 400 policemen raced to the Hofburg after a smoke detector set off the alarm soon after midnight . |
| 8 | But the Mobbs had a panic button in the house , and Mrs Mobbs set off the alarm . |
| 9 | Oh I thought you said he had a fag and he set off the alarm . |
| 10 | Extend short term crisis support at home to East and West Lothian and set up an alarm scheme for frail elderly people in Midlothian . |