Example sentences of "to brush aside the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy enough to brush aside the Pribram incident . |
| 2 | During the trial , prosecutor Richard Brown said : ‘ East Sussex Education Authority chose to brush aside the girls ’ cries for help . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've tried to cross-reference food historians with cookery writers , who tend to brush aside the contribution of black slave cooks . |
| 4 | The newcomers were not able to brush aside the native Carib population with quite the contemptuous ease with which the Spaniards had conquered the mainland ; attempts to settle in earlier years had been resisted successfully and in some islands the English settlers had to remain at least as careful about the risk of native attack as any community in North America . |
| 5 | Montagu Norman , the Governor of the Bank of England in 1925 , advised Churchill to brush aside the ‘ abuse ’ by the ‘ ignorant , the gamblers and the antiquated industrialists ’ . |