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

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1 The bill is expected to sweep aside restrictions under the 1981 British Nationality Act which require six months prior residence before the granting of citizenship .
2 The bill is expected to sweep aside restrictions under the 1981 British Nationality Act which require six months prior residence before the granting of citizenship .
3 ix , It is time to put aside things of the Outside …
4 At this time the LEA had set aside funds from the INSET budget , specifically for schools who wanted to undertake self-evaluation projects .
5 But West Germany , always cautious about monetary union , has shrugged aside attempts by the Italians to bring forward by several months the start of the inter-governmental conference that will discuss the road to EMU .
6 Leaving aside debates about the adequacy of the overall budget we can also consider how the current budget is distributed .
7 Leaving aside positions like the Earl Marshal , which is largely concerned with organizing coronations and state funerals , and has been in the Duke of Norfolk 's family since 1672 , the court is knitted together by blood and marriage .
8 She tried to brush aside memories of the eager , tiny child that Hank had been , a child who had adored his ugly , heavy-footed Ukrainian grandfather , a child who had screamed with rage at her when she had thrust him into the arms of an unknown babysitter or had forced him to play alone in the basement , until he became a silent , morose schoolboy .
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