Example sentences of "set off [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detonator exploded but failed to set off main charge . |
| 2 | Twice in the last decade police shootings of blacks have set off extensive rioting . |
| 3 | Tony Tucker , a director of syndications and asset trading at Continental Bank in London , reckons that GPA 's woes have set off new competition among brokers of distressed bank debt . |
| 4 | The killings had set off widespread rioting in the occupied territories and in Jordan . |
| 5 | He had only a second to stare at a page before setting off various alarm spells , but that was time enough for one spell to leap from it and settle in his memory like a toad in a stone . |