Example sentences of "set [adv prt] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A long ridge-walk requires an early start , and a companion and I set off from the hotel at 8.30 , toast crumbs still trembling on our lips , to attain the ridge by the first peak , Creag a' Mhaim . |
| 2 | They set off from the village of Arghuri on the morning of June 20th , in the year of Our Lord 1840 , accompanied only by their Kurdish guide . |
| 3 | Thinking to steal a march on watchful eyes I set off from the Cross Inn ( not long established as the only hotel and bar ) at 6.15 a.m. and headed for Port of Ness and the Butt of Lewis . |
| 4 | The Pakistani authorities banned the proposed protest on Feb. 6 , and on Feb. 7 deployed 40,000 security personnel along the border and blockaded roads in and out of the Azad Kashmir capital of Muzaffarabad ; nevertheless , 7,000 JKLF supporters set off from the city on Feb. 11 . |
| 5 | Set back from the road it faces the south wall of the magnificent St Magnus Cathedral , and is separated from it by the road , and by a peaceful park area and an avenue of trees . |
| 6 | Set back from the road by a long drive and framed by a crescent of trees , Mains Hall is both an imposing and yet secluded 16th-century manor house with a romantic past — it was here that George IV courted his wife to be , Marie Fitzherbert . |
| 7 | Set back from the road the hotel is reached through picturesque roads of characteristic pastel colour buildings . |
| 8 | There was a significant improvement on the other side of the viaduct , a Victorian class divide that had survived the years , and within two blocks he was walking down a tree-lined avenue composed of tall , detached houses set back from the road behind fair-sized gardens . |
| 9 | Three sets of lights later , they came into the town centre , a wide boulevard that sloped up a hill with the shops and offices set back from the pavement . |
| 10 | I explained rapidly about the pillbox and sure enough we saw Cawthorne set out from the farmhouse , walking diagonally across the Paddock towards the fence . |
| 11 | ‘ So we set out from the beginning to be ‘ author-friendly ’ . |
| 12 | So flustered was I , in fact , that I became entangled with the bicycles in the hall ( my sons always keep them there , and other things being equal I usually get past them without too much difficulty ) , and I arrived in the dining-room even more distraught than I set out from the study . |
| 13 | Other devices are less consistently adopted , but it will be noticed that in ( 2 ) , as often , the non-restrictive clause is set off from the rest of the sentence by commas . |
| 14 | The longer stretch which contains the Creole part of the turn , beginning with " I did n't mind " and ending " but to dance " — disrupts this pattern and is thus set off from the rest of the turn . |
| 15 | The London English sequence here is clearly set off from the rest of Brenda 's turn by its function , which is to elicit a " lost " piece of information . |
| 16 | The men on board the Firefly , a 25ft catamaran , had set off from the island on the return leg of the race when their craft began to ship water and threatened to founder . |
| 17 | These access rights are set up from the server and can not be changed remotely . |
| 18 | Scottish Natural Heritage ( SNH ) has been formally set up from the merger of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland and the Countryside Commission for Scotland . |
| 19 | There 's a slightly different list in the table one produced by Mr , as from the erm the criteria which are set out from the section in paragraph one three of this paper . |
| 20 | If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract . |
| 21 | It is set back from the road with a sweeping drive and an ornamental fish-pond in front , now stagnant . |
| 22 | The studios are set back from the road and are shaded by the olive trees from which they derive their name . |
| 23 | The Tripodoro is set back from the road about 750 yards from the centre of quiet , easy-going Sportorno . |
| 24 | Anywhere that was obviously occupied he drove on past , as he did with any place that was exposed or too close to the main road , but deserted-looking buildings on village outskirts and elevated rows that were set back from the road generally rated at least a circling-around and a second look . |
| 25 | The property is set back from the road behind a neat foregarden with tarmacadam driveway providing car parking on site and leading to the front entrance . |
| 26 | The property is set back from the road behind a stoned wall and a lawned garden with driveway leading to the front entrance . |
| 27 | In about the middle of the eighteenth century , John Zoffany , a portrait painter , arrived in England , and although not regularly accepted at first , he became friendly with Garrick and other actors which lifted his prospects , so he took a lease of a house called ‘ London Style ’ , which was set back from the north bank of the River Thames , just east of Kew Bridge , but later his wife and children occupied a house on the river front on Strand-on-the-Green , which house was named after the painter . |
| 28 | This is the weird machine with the keyboard set back from the front to give you a place to rest your hands . |
| 29 | The last sentence , however , sets out from the presumption that the testator 's intention is clear , but might be defeated because he has used inadequate words . |
| 30 | The text sets out from the premiss that the beneficiary of the trust ought to obtain the actual land ( rather than its value ) ; the question therefore is who ought to pay off the creditor to whom the land is presently pledged . |