Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [vb pp] aside [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | A £500,000 budget has been set aside to create a press office to represent him in Brussels , in addition to Dublin 's existing one . |
2 | Cumberland Lodge was and is a remarkable foundation : a grace and favour house belonging to the sovereign which , in the years after the War , had been set aside to serve as a meeting-place for university teachers and students . |
3 | And in preparing for his own comfortable future , Robert Maxwell plundered £1 billion , which had been set aside to secure the future of hundreds of his workers . |
4 | " Forests , " it says , " have been swept aside to grow crops for western consumers , flooded by huge hydroelectric dams to power mineral smelters and cut down to provide timber for export markets . " |
5 | Two years have been set aside to allow time to study a period of History in sufficient depth . |
6 | This year September and 12 , have been set aside to give the public a chance to visit important buildings that are usually private , and take part in guided tours , exhibitions and demonstrations throughout the province . |
7 | The curtains have been drawn aside to reveal the female subject as she speaks , writes , paints — making and doing , in the original Greek sense of poiein , from which we derive ‘ poet ’ . |