Example sentences of "[verb] aside the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved aside the folded tephillim and uncovered five neatly-bound books . |
| 2 | When Edmund had left her she had wandered as far as the orchard , and had just pushed aside the crooked wicker gate to re-enter the garden when she heard the latch of the heavier postern rattle . |
| 3 | But put aside the question-begging character of the premiss , and turn instead to the conclusion . |
| 4 | Those leaders have tried to keep their empires isolated from the Darwinian laws of survival , despite the fact that none of the ‘ gods ’ as presented by them has ever been able to set aside the inexorable operation of those laws . |
| 5 | Lies applied by summons to set aside the fourth party notice served on them and succeeded in their application . |
| 6 | The relevant conditions of section 142(2) and ( 4 ) were mandatory , not directory , and unless they were established there was no jurisdiction to set aside the earlier conviction . |
| 7 | DOCTORS are hoping to persuade North-East sportsmen to set aside the magic sponge for more sophisticated medical techniques . |
| 8 | Friuli is a particularly rich site for bird trappers , since it sits aside the main north-south trans-European migratory route . |
| 9 | His searching mouth made a languid foray to the silky disorder of her blouse , nudging aside the filmy material . |
| 10 | He stopped short of understanding Christianity because when he thought about that , he laid aside the receptive imagination with which he allowed himself to appreciate myth and became rigidly narrow and empiricist . |
| 11 | With an angry , violent gesture he flung aside the broken piece of door . |
| 12 | Somewhat ironically , in view of the detailed , convoluted negotiations of the previous year , the constitutional agreement was not put to the test in the ways intended as the outbreak of war in September 1939 set aside the anticipated position irrevocably . |
| 13 | Ace grimaced , reached down and hesitantly pulled aside the tattered sheet of black silk . |
| 14 | Thomas Cartwright , the Elizabethan Presbyterian , declared on one occasion that ‘ heaps ’ of his contemporaries had cast aside the old religion without discovering the new , and the minister Josias Nichols complained in 1602 that only one in ten of the inhabitants of a Kentish parish with 400 communicants knew the basics of Protestant doctrine . |
| 15 | But let's leave aside the whole question of the truth of the statement , which I think is going to lead us , if we 're not careful , to the hideout of some other gang altogether . |
| 16 | I can not express to you the enchanted effect produced by this Arabian scene of colour as the wind blew aside the great waterfall behind which we stood and hid . |
| 17 | If the party now announced it was going to introduce real democracy by giving England her rightful representation this would cause a sensation , sweep aside the pat-ball politics and allow for the start of serious thinking about the future of the UK . |
| 18 | She put aside the guilty thought that he made love as if he had studied it as he had told her he once studied keyboard fingering and Bach 's Innovations . |
| 19 | It is a mood which is sweeping aside the cautious Keynesianism of Valtre Komarek . |
| 20 | By sweeping aside the common law doctrine of privity in this way , it was clear that in theory insiders would be potentially exposed to vast liability . |
| 21 | Lord Templeman said that sweeping aside the public interest factor without any trial would have ‘ established a ‘ charter for traitors ’ to publish on the most massive scale in England whatever they had managed to publish abroad' . |
| 22 | the organ is quite one of my most favourite instruments — it has that combination of depth , harmony , majesty and spirituality that can raise the soul , bring joy to the heart and let one cast aside the ephemeral tedia of everyday life . |
| 23 | Putting aside the personal feud between Streisand and Matthau , Crawford considered the one ‘ destructive element ’ in the production to be Ernest Lehman , who walked around looking unhappy throughout . |
| 24 | A man sitting in a group , leaning against the wall of the shrine , starts shaking and stands up , throwing aside the woollen blanket he wears as a shawl and kicking off his shoes . |
| 25 | However , leaving aside the intolerable heat , there was no doubt that New York was a really amazing place . |
| 26 | Leaving aside the moral issue , it is obviously desirable that schools should foster awareness of the physical risks of sexual activity , and especially of the danger of contracting a sexually transmitted disease . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , his attempt to move international relations from the study of relations between nations to the study of ‘ world society ’ ( leaving aside the essential vagueness of this latter idea ) , did represent a progressive problem shift for all those interested in the elephants rather than the little creatures . |
| 28 | Leaving aside the unresolved problem that this raises , the significant fact from the point of view of the present discussion is that bituminous coals with ranks down to medium volatile grade occur in South Wales and Kent , and as low as high volatile grade in South Wales and Somerset immediately to the north of the Variscan Front , and appear to be disappearing beneath it . |
| 29 | Leaving aside the single sheet publications , which we have already discussed , the most desirable of the chapman 's wares for the collector are the sheets folded to make a booklet of eight or twelve pages . |
| 30 | Leaving aside the obvious example of admission to residential care , there are many less significant matters in which , for example , the old person 's attachment to the primary carer makes them reluctant to let anyone else play a part in their support . |