Example sentences of "set [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the top of the social scale the five largest houses in 1670 had five hearths apiece , which was hardly grandiose but was sufficient to set them apart from the rest . |
| 2 | His petty-bourgeois family background , his status as an intellectual conversant with the rites of bourgeois education , values and culture , his sophisticated literary and critical talents as a writer , all conspired to set him apart from the communist party leadership and rank and file members alike . |
| 3 | The bureaucracy will be remunerated so as to set it apart from the rest of society and reinforce its internal hierarchy . |
| 4 | An Ornaments Rubric included in the 1559 Prayer Book ordered the use of vestments and the alb and cope during the communion service ; and the 1559 injunctions required the clergy to wear the surplice during services , as well as their distinctive outdoor dress which set them apart from the laity . |
| 5 | She would drive to the nursery in the spring and pick up boxes of spring flowers , pansies , violets , crocuses , iris , lilies of the valley , daffodils , and jonquil , and set them lovingly in the damp sweet-sour earth . |
| 6 | I set it carefully on the edition of Sophocles by her bed , intending to retrieve it later . |
| 7 | Then he lifted his other foot from the ground and set it firmly on the rough stone surface too . |
| 8 | Cadfael removed a simmering pot from the grid on the side of his brazier , set it aside on the earth floor to cool , and added a couple of turfs to damp down the glow , before straightening his back with some caution , and sitting down beside his friend . |
| 9 | I could write at greater length about the many qualities which set it way above the average . |
| 10 | But a subtle critic may well save us a great deal of time , pain and trouble in the learning , for he can set us aright at the outset , and by his example rather than by his assertions show us how to avoid admiring that which is unworthy . |
| 11 | ‘ When it 's time to sleep , why not set her here on the chair to watch over you ? ’ |
| 12 | Our parliamentary tradition and constitutional development and our system of law have set us apart from the continent . |
| 13 | The use in the emperor 's reply of the expression verba precaria is revealing , for it shows already a tendency to treat precatory words as characteristic of trusts , as something which sets them apart from the dispositions of the civil law . |
| 14 | So we share his horror as he observes in himself , experiences almost passively — as if it were happening to someone else — the emergence of the tempting desire to murder Duncan ( ‘ suggestion ’ still had the sense of diabolic temptation ) : There , with amazing speed , and as if parenthetically ( ‘ whose murder yet ’ ) we become privy to the secret that sets him apart from the others on stage , the goal to which all his energies will ultimately be directed . |
| 15 | This sets him apart from the ordinary and gives him a reason for living . |
| 16 | Not much flavour , but a fibrous-to-spongy chewiness which sets it apart from the average savoury snack . |
| 17 | That is to say , it has no obvious or gross organic cause , such as a brain lesion , a fact which sets it apart from the truly neurological conditions — like , for example , Alzheimer 's disease or epilepsy . |
| 18 | What sets it apart from the crowd is its ability to produce full colour output of a quality undreamed of on a machine with this price tag a couple of years ago . |
| 19 | It 's what sets us apart from the rest . |
| 20 | I hope that in reading this brochure you will identify some of the essence of Guinness Brewing Worldwide that sets us apart from the crowd . |
| 21 | He was standing aloof , black-haired , broad-shouldered and narrow-hipped , taller than the average Italian , an air of contained , but absolute authority setting him apart from the noisy , gesticulating mob . |
| 22 | It set them apart from the start . |
| 23 | Despite his appearance , the erstwhile executioner treated the princes with a rough kindliness that set him apart from the other attendants — taking it upon himself to ensure that the food was to their liking and the fire well-tended . |
| 24 | Seth rarely talked about the things that set him apart from the rest of mankind . |
| 25 | He had changed physically but the movement of his body down the carriage for coffee still had that freedom that set him apart from the suited composure of the brief case brigade that filled the train . |
| 26 | There was something about him that set him apart from the other men in the room . |
| 27 | It was her air of nervous tension that set her apart from the other passengers as she jumped from the train at Stowbridge , searching the platform with a fraught expression that only partially lifted when she caught sight of Melissa . |
| 28 | Her face was grimy with tears and Tony set her gently on the chair . |