Example sentences of "set off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cars used to set off at one-minute intervals , originally starting at 9.00 p.m. on a Saturday but that was changed in 1949 to midnight , . |
| 2 | Next morning , after a leisurely start , we set off across bare rock beds from our base camp beneath the steep snow slopes of the Mera La . |
| 3 | Armed with wooden swords , cardboard breast plates , and now shields , we set off with renewed enthusiasm . |
| 4 | Subtle metallic sheens and bold black spots and lines set off with red areas of finnage , combine to produce a truly pretty fish . |
| 5 | On that first day we set off with high hopes of finding out what the foxes were doing and to work out where to concentrate our filming efforts . |
| 6 | One of the greatest of all sports car road races ever run , the Mille Miglia was first held in 1927 and , by tradition , cars set off at one-minute intervals from the centre of Brescia , raced down to Rome and returned . |
| 7 | As soon as they set off on separate duties , they both visibly relaxed . |
| 8 | Eventually , after one false start , when Edward assumed ( wrongly ) that Helen would not come , they set off in late November '95 for a short walk to Wimbledon , followed four days later by a trip to Croydon . |
| 9 | To escape the posse of photographers and television crews that were always lying in wait , they would set off at high speed along treacherous tracks , with Europe 's press in hot pursuit . |
| 10 | They have been promised permanent showing : they have been given carefully considered hanging , and in some cases have chosen the position themselves ; their works are set off with surprising poise by the predominantly green and white college buildings and gardens , a complex severe and playful at once , severe in its geometry and playful in its romanesque quotations . |
| 11 | It can then be set off on new cases . |
| 12 | All this is set off in grandiose fashion by the wide pearl binding . |
| 13 | Having set off in great style from Salzburg in their own carriage , they were now so impecunious that they were obliged to sell it before the frontier and go on by postchaise . |
| 14 | The man who , finding the doors of his grandfather 's house wide open and the jade missing from the cabinet , had set off in hot pursuit of her . |
| 15 | The façade is wonderfully elegant , the Baroque dressing being set off by superb windows . |
| 16 | For example , my 10-year-old cupressus was busy stifling a display of daffodils , nicely set off by purple aubrieta . |
| 17 | Indeed Gow 's appearance was formidable , an uncompromisingly Scottish kind of countenance being set off by bushy eyebrows and side-whiskers , and anything like conceit or pretentiousness on the part of a pupil might provoke a wounding sarcasm . |
| 18 | North-East Club for pre-war Austins Mad March Hare run sets off from Scotch Corner , 11am . |
| 19 | ‘ Now you are setting off on mad expeditions . ’ |
| 20 | But presently the crowd loosened into smaller groups and a good many people went off into the village or set off for outlying farms . |
| 21 | Leaving Colonel Doughty-Wylie in charge of the Legation , he set off for Dire Dawa by caravan on 4 May and arrived in England on 15 June . |
| 22 | She looked round the deep red walls of the dining room , set off with black paintwork . |
| 23 | By the time he set off with Christian he had half formulated a plan to help with the future he had in mind for himself . |
| 24 | So on Saturday , Party Politics , dwarfing his 39 opponents , set off in new colours with new jockey Carl Llewellyn to see how many strides it would take him to cover the most famous four and a half miles in sport . |
| 25 | and er they set off in hot pursuit . |
| 26 | The gill is easy walking and leads up on to Crag Hill , which is near my home in the Dales , so one day , throwing work to one side , I cadged a lift down Barbondale to Blind Beck Bridge and set off in bright sunshine up the track to Bullpot Farm and Bull pot of the Witches . |
| 27 | Tuppe and Cornelius followed the pointing fingers and set off in different directions . |
| 28 | Under the Income and Corporation Taxes Act ( TA ) 1988 , s343 , if certain conditions are satisfied , the tax losses of a trade can be transferred to a new company and set off against future profits of the same trade if conducted by the receiving company . |
| 29 | Such Koi have a bright yellow body , set off by white fins . |
| 30 | The following Sunday at six in the morning the three of us set off from International Backside into the thick early morning mist . |