Example sentences of "which set [pers pn] [adv] from " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 We crept close enough to see the features which set them apart from curlew : the smaller size , relatively shorter bill and pattern of light and dark head-stripes .
3 The farm business has a number of characteristics which set it apart from other small-scale enterprises .
4 ‘ We get dressed up in all these silly clothes which set us apart from others .
5 Although the range of handicap , both mental and physical , is considerable , the Down 's population has a common physical appearance which sets them apart from other people .
6 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 .
7 Not much flavour , but a fibrous-to-spongy chewiness which sets it apart from the average savoury snack .
8 The density of the energy varies in inverse proportions to the distance , which sets it apart from electro-magnetic or gravitational laws , but for which a theory of potentials is applicable ,
9 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 .
10 James had several other aspects to his life which set him apart from many of his colleagues .
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