Sentence examples for it would set off from inspiring English sources

They said it would set off an explosion in the streets that they could not control.

They almost never looked in his bag, and it would set off no alarm.

THE Suharto regime used to argue that if East Timor became independent, it would set off an archipelagic chain reaction.

As party spending goes, it's not much, but it would set off a key series of events.

CL When you gave your archive to Indiana, did you know it would set off a controversy?

It would set off a second civil war, throwing the region into turmoil as neighboring countries backed different sides.

It is delicious, though I imagined I would set off a Geiger counter after drinking it.

When they were all stern authoritarians who smelled of tea and boot polish and grew moustaches because it made them look sensible and not because it'd set off their brightly coloured sockless Asos espadrilles.

And even then it is not clear what would set off the commission's inquiry -- an establishment's failure to post signs, as the new law requires, or its failure to actually pluck cigarettes from smokers' mouths.

He had never even been on the Internet, so it is odd that his death would set off a high-tech cybercrime investigation.

It was not clear why anyone would set off so many low-power bombs in busy areas, unless they were intended only for intimidation.