Example sentences of "[verb] aside [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He stands aside from the path and is warned that he tramples on sown seed .
2 Mick Rooney is an artist who stands aside from the current vogue of somewhat conservative , civilised English painting as exemplified by Ken Howard and Bernard Dunstan .
3 Feeling a twinge of guilt because she 'd inadvertently brought it all up when all they wanted was for it to remain buried , and pushing aside for the moment the whys and wherefores of her grandfather 's involvement , Ellie apologised quietly , ‘ I 'm sorry .
4 Sadly these have now disappeared , pushed aside by the needs of the motor car .
5 shared the concern and felt that the Institute could be pushed aside by the larger companies who were already carrying out their own teaching and might decide that they did not need the Institute or its standards .
6 If they 're on the long tour at this point , the commentator is pushed aside by the man playing the part of the cook .
7 Besides the semi-literate glossies , and the best-selling ‘ page-turners ’ that have to be moved aside for the next over-hyped wave , books appear for sale that are of a quite different kind .
8 ’ Its success gave Hardy the confidence to revive the manuscript of A Pair of Blue Eyes , put aside after the failure of Desperate Remedies , and embark on his first attempt at a serial , the form in which many 19th century novels originally appeared .
9 Then the head was turned aside on the pillow , staring across the room .
10 When the Hooligans first put in an appearance , the floggers and die-hards had been much in evidence , but they were eased aside with the growing recognition that Hooliganism was a pointer towards a general dislocation among the youth — and not just a ‘ hard core ’ — and that the problem was therefore immune to a narrow penal response .
11 Without a glance at one another the two adults followed , Jake stepping aside at the sitting-room door to allow Shiona to pass into the hall ahead of him .
12 Throwing up slides to make a point here , and stepping aside from the podium to develop a theme there , he exuded great confidence in the future of the great corporation .
13 Husks of rye and scraps of straw were being splintered aside by the charging horse .
14 All this went down well enough with the members of the Institute , although it conveniently ignored both the fact that large numbers of those he excoriated had been encouraged into the professions by business parents and that for an entire decade ‘ the Establishment ’ had been elbowed aside by the Thatcher appointments policy .
15 mercifully , it is drawn aside through the eye
16 Corinth on the other hand had kept its vase-painting on a small scale ; and the tradition of an early Corinthian school of painters is borne out by certain vase-paintings which stand aside from the rest : not in scale ( indeed they are often miniature work ) but in composition and colour .
17 He had intended to put in an hour 's fishing but there was an impatience which he could not appease by the sport and so he turned aside into the fields which took him across towards Portinscale .
18 Bishop , who worked manfully to keep West Ham moving forward from midfield , also had a 20-yard first-time shot turned aside by the goalkeeper just before half time .
19 He glanced aside at the ginger-haired twins .
20 Furthermore , it became clear that a number of the parties would be arriving some time before the three days set aside for the conference , thus giving themselves time to prepare their ground and gauge the mood of fellow guests , though their exact arrival dates were , again , uncertain .
21 In more and more grounds , fences and grilles have been built around the ‘ ends ’ and the areas set aside for the visiting supporters , further highlighting the sense of territory .
22 Not all market places were vast squares or rectangles or triangles , set aside for the purpose .
23 The section only applies to public houses ( for meaning of " public house , " see s.139(1) ) in respect of which applications for Sunday opening have not been granted under Sched. 4 , and , in respect of which , part of the premises have been adapted and set aside for the provision of the customary main meal at mid-day or in the evening or both , The procedure for applying the section to the premises is similar to the procedure under 5,57 , Before a licence-holder can apply the section to his premises , he has to obtain a declaration of satisfaction from the licensing board that part of his premises are adapted and used or intended to be used for habitually providing the customary main meal at mid-day or in the evening and that the adapted part does not contain a bar counter ( subs .
24 This organized disposal of the dead in large communal cemeteries , set aside for the purpose , is a useful indicator of more complex communities , so that the appearance of isolated burial plots can be instructive ; at Ilchester , the late burials within the extra-mural plots might well be indicative of the later Roman decline in standards within a contracting settlement .
25 Náprstek was also an enthusiastic supporter of the emancipation of women , and there were rooms set aside in the apartments for the American Club of Czech Women .
26 Catherine laid it down that every post should be paid , but the limited funds set aside by the government were rapidly eroded by inflation .
27 Individual work can be catered for by drill and practice programs and pupils who have advanced beyond others or who have a problem in class , may move aside to the microcomputer and go through a program which acts as a revision aid or reinforcement medium .
28 Demands for action to clean up sulphur dioxide emissions from power stations , widely believed to be responsible for the ‘ acid rain ’ that was killing forests , lakes and rivers — not just in Scotland , but as far afield as Germany and Scandinavia — were brushed aside on the grounds of inconclusive evidence ; a similar attitude was taken towards the radioactive discharges from the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield .
29 There are important questions that should not be brushed aside about the place of altruism in policy making .
30 The swiftly reacting keeper bravely threw himself at McCarthy 's feet after Mitch Cook was brushed aside by the forward , and caused a measure of concern as he hobbled around after lengthy treatment .
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