Example sentences of "set [pers pn] [adv] from " 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 | That 's why you carefully cultivate eccentric habits to set you apart from others . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There are several characteristics of the breed that seem to set it apart from other British cattle , though appearances can be deceptive . |
| 5 | The bureaucracy will be remunerated so as to set it apart from the rest of society and reinforce its internal hierarchy . |
| 6 | When we asked all the branches in Environmental Services if they had anything we should know about and put into print for the next Environmental Issues , such as had they done anything exciting or out of the ordinary recently , Branch manager from Pest Control Sheffield , Henri Amiss was quick to point out that everything their branch did set them apart from other branches . |
| 7 | In practice , many species are recognized by having some peculiarity of shape , behaviour , plumage , colour and so on , that reliably set them apart from all other similar species . |
| 8 | The groups of organisms described have certain special peculiarities that set them apart from all others , and once these features are recognized the group to which the fossil belongs can be confidently identified . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Whilst at one time the personal characteristics of children , and the circumstances in which they were received into care , set them apart from other children not admitted into care , the norms of family life for children inside and outside of public care could no longer be regarded as so different from each other . |
| 12 | A partial answer for the failure of that explanation is provided here , by looking at the characteristics of the Nottinghamshire mining communities which apparently set them apart from those of their neighbours further north . |
| 13 | The SEATO and CENTO pacts brought certain Asian states into pro-Western blocs and set them apart from a larger neutralist group . |
| 14 | In the meantime , I 'll talk to ‘ C ’ and set you up from my end . |
| 15 | That was how we 'd set it up from the beginning . |
| 16 | ‘ Its superb quality and the naturalism achieved by the artist who has captured the lion in its death-throes set it apart from most other Assyrian sculptures , ’ said Dr Curtis . |
| 17 | The farm business has a number of characteristics which set it apart from other small-scale enterprises . |
| 18 | EVERY version of Educating Rita has ingredients that set it apart from all others . |
| 19 | ‘ We get dressed up in all these silly clothes which set us apart from others . |
| 20 | The songs , stories and customs of the Claddagh dwellers had set them apart from other Galwegians , and the well-known Claddagh rings originated there . |
| 21 | Neville Southall 's talent has always set him apart from most of his rivals . |
| 22 | She was aware that , even standing there , rolling up the sleeves above his tanned , muscular arms as he pondered the problem before him , Ross still possessed that sinister stillness , the iron self-control that had always set him apart from any one else she had ever known . |
| 23 | Our parliamentary tradition and constitutional development and our system of law have set us apart from the continent . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This interchange of visual ideas permeates every facet of the weaver 's art , and is one of the prime reasons why all oriental rugs , regardless of their compositional differences , possess an underlying character that sets them apart from hand-made rugs produced in other areas of the world . |
| 27 | The very label they have given themselves — ‘ development community ’ — sets them apart from those whose life conditions they purport to ‘ develop ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This sets him apart from the ordinary and gives him a reason for living . |
| 30 | Yet Conrad uses these elements , which we may term romantic , in a way that sets him far from stories , seemingly similar , by ( say ) Rider Haggard or Buchan . |