Example sentences of "set [adv] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The church seems to be slightly set away from the village , and is very elusive as you drive through , being only reached either through a farmyard or down a lane off the road to Wansford . |
| 2 | A third dummy was in a seated position on the fourth chair which was set away from the table . |
| 3 | Other devices are less consistently adopted , but it will be noticed that in ( 2 ) , as often , the non-restrictive clause is set off from the rest of the sentence by commas . |
| 4 | The longer stretch which contains the Creole part of the turn , beginning with " I did n't mind " and ending " but to dance " — disrupts this pattern and is thus set off from the rest of the turn . |
| 5 | The London English sequence here is clearly set off from the rest of Brenda 's turn by its function , which is to elicit a " lost " piece of information . |
| 6 | The men on board the Firefly , a 25ft catamaran , had set off from the island on the return leg of the race when their craft began to ship water and threatened to founder . |
| 7 | In part it would appear that this has arisen from a tendency to see questions of housing and home life as matters of individual and privatised choice , to be set aside from the mainstream of political life where employment is the crucial issue . |
| 8 | It also helped me retain the image of myself as someone special , set aside from the throng , this time because of superior talent . |
| 9 | Donations totalling £15,000 have been set aside from the site 's charity trust fund to buy much needed equipment to help mothers and children , the elderly , the injured , the deaf and handicapped in the area . |
| 10 | These access rights are set up from the server and can not be changed remotely . |
| 11 | Scottish Natural Heritage ( SNH ) has been formally set up from the merger of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland and the Countryside Commission for Scotland . |
| 12 | There 's a slightly different list in the table one produced by Mr , as from the erm the criteria which are set out from the section in paragraph one three of this paper . |
| 13 | If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract . |
| 14 | It is set back from the road with a sweeping drive and an ornamental fish-pond in front , now stagnant . |
| 15 | The studios are set back from the road and are shaded by the olive trees from which they derive their name . |
| 16 | The Tripodoro is set back from the road about 750 yards from the centre of quiet , easy-going Sportorno . |
| 17 | Anywhere that was obviously occupied he drove on past , as he did with any place that was exposed or too close to the main road , but deserted-looking buildings on village outskirts and elevated rows that were set back from the road generally rated at least a circling-around and a second look . |
| 18 | The property is set back from the road behind a neat foregarden with tarmacadam driveway providing car parking on site and leading to the front entrance . |
| 19 | The property is set back from the road behind a stoned wall and a lawned garden with driveway leading to the front entrance . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This is the weird machine with the keyboard set back from the front to give you a place to rest your hands . |
| 22 | Although the poem contains such pessimistic overtones and pathetic acceptance of fate there is hope to be found in the last two lines which seem to be set apart from the rest . |
| 23 | Cranston roared with laughter and led Athelstan over to the far corner where a table and stools were set apart from the rest of the customers . |
| 24 | Once this conviction had been acquired , however , it became almost impossible to dislodge it , and they came to see themselves as an elite , chosen people permanently set apart from the majority of their unregenerate contemporaries . |
| 25 | The members of this new class did not own the means of production but they were set apart from the proletariat by possession of a distinct form of capital — intellectual capital . |
| 26 | Political leaders , where they can be set apart from the party , may help to shape a party 's image . |
| 27 | Despite increasing integration into the market , the village remained in large measure set apart from the world outside , regulating its own affairs through customary law under the tutelage of the police . |
| 28 | Despite increasing integration into the market , therefore , the village remained in large measure set apart from the world outside , regulating its own affairs through customary law under the tutelage of the police . |
| 29 | As such , humans fear them , and as such , they are firmly set apart from the Chewong . |
| 30 | An early-fourteenth-century description of Gascony listed four counts and fifteen vicomtes among the upper nobility , set apart from the plèbe nobiliaire beneath them . |