Example sentences of "set [adv prt] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sophia herself was wearing a green jersey suit and a small hat , but she felt that she did not look so absolutely right as Ianthe , whose plain blue woollen dress was set off by a feather-trimmed hat which had just the right touch of slightly dowdy elegance — if there could be such a thing . |
| 2 | Though in itself fairly insensitive under normal conditions it had to be set off by the early , very sensitive , mercury-fulminate detonator which was fired by safety fuze . |
| 3 | The whole collection was set off by the saxe-blue Jacobean embroidery thrown over the shelves on which the pieces were carefully arranged . |
| 4 | ‘ So it was set off by the simple act of turning on the lamp ? ’ |
| 5 | This takes a similar form to the Arch of Peace and is set off by the extended , arcaded arms that drift along the edge of the square . |
| 6 | Despite the wear and tear of many a performance it 's still a cracking guitar , with its classically timeless shape beautifully set off by the tobacco-yellowed binding . |
| 7 | This commission was set up by a Labour government to advise on the future of boarding public schools in the light of comprehensivisation . |
| 8 | The sponsorship deal between the school and the film company was set up by a former Downs School pupil , who now manages the Phoenix Cinema . |
| 9 | There were many stations which , whilst not being strictly private , were set up by a narrow section of the public and usually barred to casual travellers . |
| 10 | The Redbridge Care Attendant Scheme , for instance , was set up by a local association for handicapped people with funding from various sources , including the Greater London Association for the Disabled ( address on page 146 ) . |
| 11 | A COMPLAINTS system is being set up by a local authority to make it easier for residents to complain about the service that the council offers . |
| 12 | In the event the first two centres demonstrated the dual approach to much advisory work in that one was set up by a local authority ( in Lambeth ) and one by voluntary bodies ( in South Kensington ) . |
| 13 | Centres for teaching English as a second language ( CE2L ) are separate schools that have been set up by a few LEAs . |
| 14 | According to Grosskurth ( 1984 ) , some innovative schemes along these lines have already been set up by a few progressive British local authorities , but it seems that they are as yet rare , and reach only a minority of the people in need . |
| 15 | Popperfoto was set up by a Czeckoslovakian photographer in the nineteen thirties and the collection includes the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald , the Hindenburg airship disaster , and Captain Scott 's expedition to the South Pole . |
| 16 | The second working party , set up by the General Practitioner Board , is also looking at training but within the wider context of what the future holds for small accountancy practices . |
| 17 | The second is the joint committee set up by the General Council of the Bar and The Law Society , chaired by Lady Marre , which reported in July 1988 ( Marre Committee , 1988 ) . |
| 18 | Thus it was Floridablanca , a stiff bureaucrat , who planned the road system radiating from Madrid , the completion of which was to be the achievement of Isabelline liberalism ; indeed , the fate of the Corps of Road Engineers , set up in the eighteenth century , was bound up with the fate of liberalism itself ; dismantled by Ferdinand VII it was set up by the Liberal Revolution in 1820 ; dissolved in the reaction of 1823 , it was re-established by liberals in 1834 . |
| 19 | This week Andrew Large , the chairman of the Securities and Investments Board ( SIB ) , published a report that acknowledged the defects in the regulatory regime set up by the 1986 Financial Services Act . |
| 20 | The Southern Africa Centre for Ivory Marketing ( SACIM ) , set up by the four countries , plans a range of measures to exclude poached ivory from the trade , including marking legally obtained ivory with a hologram , bar code and serial number . |
| 21 | A special committee was set up by the Supreme Council to register deserters in order to try to ensure their legal protection . |
| 22 | A ZANLA terrorist had risen out of the bushes with a Kalashnikov while Mike had been involved in an ambush on the Limpopo river which had been set up by the Selous Scouts , the counterinsurgency tracking teams of the Rhodesian army . |
| 23 | He accepted the ‘ desire to remain neutral ’ , interpreted as ‘ the reluctance of one or other state to participate in military-political blocs set up by the imperialist powers ’ as a ‘ favourable phenomenon ’ . |
| 24 | A scheme set up by the Benevolent Fund gave him the chance to learn to fly . |
| 25 | From July 1993 , only scientists will be allowed to enter the park , which is Russia 's contribution to a network of Arctic reserves set up by the international treaty signed at Rovaniemi in Finland in 1989 . |
| 26 | A new organization , the World Industry Council for the Environment ( WICE ) , has been set up by the International Chamber of Commerce ( ICC ) to lobby on environmental issues for business interests . |
| 27 | ’ Police Governments ’ refers to the Western interpretation of the strict governments set up by the Soviet Union in the countries in Eastern Europe within its sphere of interest . |
| 28 | As these prices fluctuated , for example after the end of the Korean war boom , there was widespread unrest — often in resistance to well-meant price stabilisation funds set up by the colonial power — and out of this unrest arose movements which were to become nationalist parties and national liberation struggles . |
| 29 | In its Report , presented in 1977 to Parliament , the working party set up by the Labour Government to develop further the idea of a Co-operative Development Agency , and broadly representative of the whole of the Co-operative Movement , declared of the three attempted rescues : |
| 30 | The last time there was an inquiry into activities which may involve cruelty to wild animals was the Scott Henderson Inquiry set up by the Labour Government in 1949 . |