Example sentences of "set off the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is formality … such as the Elizabethan knot garden , with its tiny box hedging … and the walk of Lime trees.But such order simply helps to set off the flower borders which overflow with colour.Here can be found a blue and white monkshood … the towering flower spikes of acanthus , commonly known as bears britches … crimson penstemon blooms , and the perennially popular day lily . |
| 2 | That 's if we 're not going to set off the alarm system ! ’ |
| 3 | We repair to the kitchen and blithely set off the burglar alarm searching for the cat to cuddle . |
| 4 | In one place a television ‘ red head ’ ( 800 watt ) light set off the sprinkler system with hysterical results . |
| 5 | The proliferation of regional ale brands since the sector 's launch in 1988 made it difficult to build a national product that would kick-start it in the way that Perrier set off the mineral water market in the seventies . |