Example sentences of "set aside [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 But hospitals will be allowed to set aside smoking rooms for them and patients who are unable to stop .
2 Attempts in the Court of Appeal to set aside ministerial decisions on other aspects of the new block grant on more technical and precise grounds failed .
3 Set aside regular periods each day to spend time with your puppy , playing with it , grooming it and starting to familiarize it with its collar and lead , and other equipment .
4 Most settlements set aside special areas for use as meadowland .
5 Let's concentrate on the wedding and set aside minor matters like setting up home together , buying furniture and the honeymoon .
6 If , for example , you have two lectures a week in a particular subject — say , on Tuesday and Thursday mornings — and a weekly tutorial — say , on Tuesday afternoons — then you should set aside regular time(s) — say , an hour or two on a Monday and another hour on , say , a Thursday — to study to and prepare for that class .
7 If they permit smoking , they should set aside special rooms for those who wish to smoke and for those who do not .
8 To — ‘ is he at all like you ? ’ — I must say — No — very categorically : setting aside personal appearances — he being stout — & good looking , — & I being ensiform , ( speaking botanically , ) that is — lanky — & considerably ugly , — we are , as far as I can judge — very opposite .
9 Even in Europe we are setting aside whole farms for conservation because we do n't need the food and it rationalises the subsidy system .
10 Setting aside fanciful notions that Western fecundity declined through a surfeit of meat eating or a failure of ‘ racial vitality ’ ( Soloway 1982 ) , there is no evidence for declining fecundity .
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