Example sentences of "[verb] aside a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they went , hurrying in the easy g down the tunnel after the bird , pushing aside a grey canvas curtain , stumbling down carved steps , squeezing between squat brown stalagmites that grew like cankers out of the floor , through a crack into a cave where the wall had crumbled away , revealing a comblike structure of fat , thick-walled cells . |
| 2 | Some students find it best to set aside a regular time each week ( perhaps at the weekend ) to file all the notes taken during the previous week . |
| 3 | The context was an action in the Norwegian court to set aside a retrospective tax assessment which had been raised by the Norwegian tax authorities against the estate of a deceased taxpayer who , it was alleged , was the beneficial owner of the assets which he had not declared for tax purposes . |
| 4 | It may also be desirable to set aside a small area for short-term parking and the use of that area may be restricted to the tenants ' visitors . |
| 5 | ‘ We committed ourselves to the City of Edinburgh initiative asking companies to set aside a suitable proportion of the cost of any development to commission new works of art . |
| 6 | The reason for this is that it permits buyers to set aside a bad bargain following the seller 's breach of condition where only slight consequences have ensued . |
| 7 | On 28 January 1992 District Judge Harris sitting in the Liverpool County Court granted the debtor 's application to set aside a statutory demand dated 15 August 1991 which had been served on the debtor on 21 August 1991 by the creditors , Marshalls , a firm of solicitors , in respect of their unpaid bill of 31 July 1991 , and dismissed the bankruptcy petition founded on that demand , which had been issued on 20 September 1991 , on the basis that the service of the statutory demand had contravened section 69(1) of the Solicitors Act 1974 . |
| 8 | 1986 No. 1925 ) the court has a wide discretion to set aside a statutory demand on an application by the debtor . |
| 9 | In general the court should exercise its discretion to set aside a statutory demand if , but only if , it would not be just for those consequences to apply in the circumstances . |
| 10 | The court has a wide discretion to set aside a statutory demand . |
| 11 | A petition can only be presented in respect of a debt if ( s 267(2) ) : ( i ) the amount of the debt or the aggregate of the debts is equal to or exceeds the bankruptcy level ( defined in 5267(4) as £750 but subject to change by the Secretary of State ) , ( ii ) the debt of each of the debts is for a liquidated sum payable either immediately or at some future time and is unsecured , ( iii ) the debtor appears unable to pay or to have no reasonable prospect of being able to pay the debt or debts , and ( iv ) there is no outstanding application to set aside a statutory demand served under s 268 ( see section 4 ( c ) below ) . |
| 12 | Application for an extension of time to apply to set aside a statutory demand can be made to a bankruptcy judge in the High Court or to a registrar of the appropriate county court . |
| 13 | For the additional paragraphs in the affidavit in support of an application for an extension of time to apply to set aside a statutory demand , see Appendix C , form 11 . |
| 14 | They also fail to set aside a holy day for God . |
| 15 | Benstead had made another great save turning aside a rasping shot from Ian Bishop and in the second half Trevor Morley blazed over . |
| 16 | Kicking aside a shattered bone , he hurried on . |
| 17 | Sharpe pursued him , kicking aside a spindly gilt chair . |
| 18 | Set aside a little time to make this cake , as it is quite time-consuming . |
| 19 | Mr Bob Patterson , treasurer of Stockton council , said : ‘ We set aside a certain sum each year for concessionary fares which we then share out among the bus companies . |
| 20 | Set aside a few fried onion rings for garnish , add the remaining to the chicken . |
| 21 | A government determined to give poorer people a larger say over their own lives would set aside a small capital sum to support the central finance of credit unions . |
| 22 | Indeed , it became almost de rigueur for a man of substance to put aside a considerable sum for his funeral monument , the £600 spent on the third Earl of Sussex 's memorial being fairly typical . |
| 23 | At Newmarket yesterday , Chapple-Hyam produced another talented three-year-old in the Thatching gelding King Olaf , who brushed aside a strong challenge from the well-fancied Hamas , owned by Hamdan Al-Maktoum . |
| 24 | Everything of mine at that stage was still packed , but I had set aside a separate box for tea and coffee things so tea was easy to arrange . |
| 25 | Once a week set aside a little time to give your body a conditioning and moisturising treatment . |
| 26 | Plans to transfer the management of the schemes to community organisations are almost complete , and Liz Taylor 's pet Aids charity , AMFAR , has set aside a small sum to fund them . |
| 27 | News of a final dividend hoisted from 9p to 14.2p , to raise the 1992 total 49 per cent to 19p , helped the shares shrug aside a further collapse in the colony 's stock market yesterday after the continuing disagreement between China and the governor , Chris Patten . |
| 28 | The court sets aside a limited amount of its time for schemes of arrangement which can cause delays depending on the court 's workload . |
| 29 | We can use affirmations to bring a positive , joyful attitude to life in general — either using them as needed during the day , or putting aside a few minutes every day to affirm our beliefs . |
| 30 | If you can not do this , you could put aside a certain amount of money as a reward for each time the scales register a drop in weight . |