Example sentences of "was set [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | A third dummy was in a seated position on the fourth chair which was set away from the table . |
| 2 | Kevin Price gave us a glimpse of what was to follow with a clever break and when the ball was set up from the resulting ruck , Paul Flood was equally successful with a drop goal . |
| 3 | The £10 million sun and sangria soap was set up from scratch in just six months . |
| 4 | It was generosity and wisdom I was after when I climbed up the steps to her small office which was set apart from the larger huts in the forest clearing . |
| 5 | Rome was set apart from her neighbours by her ancient fame and lasting prestige — and yet , in these centuries , one can not but think , far more by the presence of the apostles and martyrs , and of the pope . |
| 6 | Unlike the capitalist social relations of interwar France in which the writer/intellectual was set apart from his/her real and potential reading public , a distant and alienated specialist " , the new social relations of Soviet society appeared to provide the writer/intellectual with a pivotal role in social construction . |
| 7 | In about the middle of the eighteenth century , John Zoffany , a portrait painter , arrived in England , and although not regularly accepted at first , he became friendly with Garrick and other actors which lifted his prospects , so he took a lease of a house called ‘ London Style ’ , which was set back from the north bank of the River Thames , just east of Kew Bridge , but later his wife and children occupied a house on the river front on Strand-on-the-Green , which house was named after the painter . |