Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] aside the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ that a person who has entered into the contract may either affirm or avoid such contract after the duress has ceased ; and if he has so voluntarily acted under it with a full knowledge of all the circumstances he may be held bound on the ground of ratification , or if , after escaping from the duress , he takes no steps to set aside the transaction he may be found to have affirmed it . ’ |
| 2 | Penrose brushed aside the suggestion with an emphatic movement of his hand . |
| 3 | I can not express to you the enchanted effect produced by this Arabian scene of colour as the wind blew aside the great waterfall behind which we stood and hid . |
| 4 | Their rejection of the Old Testament set aside the argument from fulfilled prophecy which had played a notable part in his conversion . |
| 5 | Encouraged , David pushed aside the flimsy bra , and his sensitive fingers gently kneaded the soft flesh that swelled under his touch . |
| 6 | Epitot pushed aside the tent-flap and stared out into the night . |
| 7 | The wind swept aside the foetid air of the compartment as the door was unbolted . |
| 8 | Signalling the beginning of a lower-key campaign against the plans of the Lord Chancellor , Lord Mackay of Clashfern , to give increased rights of audience in the High and Crown court to solicitors , Lord Donaldson called on the Bar to put aside the ‘ trauma , the acrimony and the recriminations ’ which followed Lord Mackay 's Green Papers and to abandon the hustings . |
| 9 | Even now he has not done so , although the judge set aside the statutory demand nearly five months ago . |
| 10 | In such circumstances the court has the power to make such order as it thinks fit ( IA 1986 , s238(3) ) including the right to set aside the transaction . |
| 11 | Mr Patten brushed aside the disappointment of the loss of his own seat . |
| 12 | Whenever I talk to groups of teachers who are willing for a moment to lay aside the grim realities and talk and think big , I hear them saying exactly the same . |
| 13 | In what was ultimately to become Venezuela the revolutionary implications of the movement were decisive ; a Junta in Caracas swept aside the existing administration and , in the name of preserving America for Ferdinand VII , disowned the authority of the Cadiz Regency , that is of the legal government of Spain . |
| 14 | Billy was still laughing when the lavatory door creaked open and Selwyn pushed aside the loganberry bush and stepped out |
| 15 | Adimov shuffled aside the moment of their first meeting . |
| 16 | The proprietor thrust aside the plastic tassels that filled the doorway through to the back of the dry cleaner 's and dumped his shopping bag on the floor next to an ironing board . |
| 17 | NIGEL JEMSON last night shrugged aside the most embarrassing moment of his career and ruled out any showdown with Trevor Francis . |
| 18 | The court set aside the committal ‘ on all those three grounds ’ ( see p. 624 ) , but did not have to consider what would have been the position if only the third ground had been substantiated . |
| 19 | On the application of both defendants Wright J. set aside the order in so far as related to such disclosure on the ground that it infringed their privilege against self-incrimination . |
| 20 | Moreover , Mr Kinnock brushed aside the suggestion that he needed a big idea or unique selling point to challenge the appeal of Thatcherism . |
| 21 | Sara brushed aside the question . |
| 22 | Simultaneously the reader responds to the transpersonal unsteadiness , the possessed state of the book , and feels an urge to thrust aside the irresolute self-contradictory narrator and repose upon the story of von Lemke with his cut-out toys and yellow autumn flower . |
| 23 | And one has to say that while both Prospero and Gandalf are old men with staffs , Prospero brushes aside the oppositions of reality with an ease which Gandalf is never allowed to aspire to . |
| 24 | Iris brushed aside the interruption with a wave of a hand . |
| 25 | And that of course sets aside the |
| 26 | The shots ripped aside the murmur sound of sliding feet . |
| 27 | She might have to , Isabel decided , as he laughed again and his hand drew aside the neck of her shift , exposing the delicate lines of her throat and shoulders . |
| 28 | The defendants asserted their privilege against making possibly incriminating disclosure by what seems to me the unusual step of incorporating in a summons their application to set aside the paragraphs of Buckley J. 's order which appeared likely to upset that privilege and supporting that application by affidavits expressing their apprehensions in vague terms . |
| 29 | The registrar granted the administrators leave to serve the originating application on the bank in Jersey pursuant to rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 Mervyn Davies J. granted the bank 's application to set aside the registrar 's order , holding that section 238 of the Act of 1986 did not have extraterritorial effect so as to include a foreigner resident abroad , and that ‘ any person ’ in the section could not apply to the bank . |
| 30 | Morritt J. refused the application for leave to inspect but Hoffmann J. granted the application to set aside the registrar 's order . |