Example sentences of "set off [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emerson noticed this propensity of flags to make ordinary people ‘ poets and mystics ’ , to set off a tingle in the blood ; and flags were festooned round Iran-contra like bunting , exceedingly hard Brought to trial , the players could not believe that their love for their country had caused them to commit crimes ; and the light penalties handed down to all these men , with only Poindexter receiving a jail sentence , suggested that the judges , to some degree , accepted patriotism in mitigation . |
| 2 | I 'm going to set off a flare . ’ |
| 3 | Thus a false belief that a man is about to set off a bomb might well be reprehensible in a soldier , who therefore shoots him , when the soldier could and should have known that the man was not about to do any such thing . |
| 4 | Believing that a man is about to set off a bomb wo n't make our soldier do anything , unless he also wants something : in this case , to prevent an explosion . |
| 5 | TERRORISTS in Northern Ireland yesterday breached tight security to set off a bomb which injured two policemen , one seriously . |
| 6 | Isabelle must have left a legacy of frightening bitterness behind her in this place in order to set off a reaction like that . |
| 7 | Whatever , it was there , waiting , waiting , waiting — for one ingredient to complete it , to set off a reaction that might never stop . |
| 8 | In consequence there are no autumn colours to be viewed in surroundings that look as though there should be — no golds and flaming reds to set off the whites , blues and blacks of snow , water and rock . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | To set off the blues , I used white Shasta daisies , white bergenias and the silver foliage of pearly everlasting , Anaphalis cinnamomea . |
| 11 | Howard is wearing a very pale grey suit , with a pale blue shirt and a white silk tie , to set off the suntan he has acquired in the country . |
| 12 | When the cap burns it creates a sufficiently high temperature to set off the dynamite . |
| 13 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 14 | That 's if we 're not going to set off the alarm system ! ’ |
| 15 | Finally , do n't forget the value of such structural objects as walls , containers , raised beds or even large boulders sited to set off the plants . |
| 16 | One needed a little dullness , to set off the buoyancy , the festivity , the movement . |
| 17 | PT Ltd claimed that it was entitled to set off the tax that should have been deducted against the rent due on 25 March 1991 and failed to pay the rent . |
| 18 | Well if one of those flats is for you , here 's just the thing to set off the view from the window . |
| 19 | When working on such designs , it is important to choose a background with as much texture as possible , and a fairly substantial frame to set off the design . |
| 20 | Much of this was funded by personal borrowing , providing jobs in Credit and Banking ; the security for lending often coming from people 's own homes , as the desire to own and furnish better homes set off a spiral of house-price inflation . |
| 21 | To her horror , his words set off a ripple of excitement within her , and she felt a betraying warmth flood her cheeks . |
| 22 | El Niño is apparently triggered by the warming of ocean currents in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific , which set off a pattern of weather bringing drought to many tropical areas , but heavier than normal rain to the western American seaboard . |
| 23 | The dogs were set off by it and the dogs set off the sheep and the goats and the cows . |
| 24 | It is ironic that Godoy was overthrown and treated with ignominy as a traitor at the moment when he had decided to resist Napoleon : it was his plan to remove the king to Seville , out of the way of the French , which set off the Tumult of Aranjuez . |
| 25 | Much of his conversation , uttered in the flat voice which set off the originality of the content , conveyed in this way infinite nuances of banter and irony . |
| 26 | Smoking a cigarette will not normally set off a smoke alarm . |
| 27 | The government , claiming that granting the pilots ' wage demand would set off a wage explosion and damage the economy , expressed its support for the airlines and took unprecedented steps to break the strike . |
| 28 | These areas of flexibility need to be defined very carefully and the possible options spelled out as far as possible , for in a tightly knit plan a sudden deviation at one point can set off a chain reaction of confusion throughout the plan . |
| 29 | Then the rocket propeller , having completed two and a half turns , would set off the detonator , which exploded in front of the ‘ plane you were firing at . |
| 30 | in a garage , where exhaust fumes could set off the alarm . |