Example sentences of "aside [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | mercifully , it is drawn aside through the eye |
| 2 | The Minister of Constitutional Development , Gerrit van N. Viljoen , in the budget debate in Parliament on May 9-11 , 1990 , outlined a plan for a future constitutional dispensation which , according to the state-owned media , showed that " the government is striving to cater for minorities " [ usually understood in a South African context to mean principally white people , but also Asians and " coloureds " ] and " assures people that the values and aspirations of minorities will not be set aside through majority rule " . |
| 3 | The front of the hurricane tore at the lower flanks of the mountains , rending great trees from the rain forest and tossing them aside as if they were little more than sticks . |
| 4 | Every now and again , they would have to stand aside as a great shire horse , leaning into its collar , plodded by . |
| 5 | These are extremely important leisure pursuits in France , including the French uplands and some areas of land are set aside as ‘ hunting reserves ’ . |
| 6 | In May 1965 £100 from the Society Stewards ' accounts was set aside as the beginning of a Building Fund , the purpose of which was either to extend the existing halls or to build new ones . |
| 7 | Members of the RIBA are being invited by the President of the National Federation of Roofing Contractors to attend Rooftec '90 as the guests of the Federation on Wednesday 7 November , which is being set aside as Architects Day . |
| 8 | Then Carrie jumped aside as a passing bus threw up some slush from the gutter , and as she brushed her hands down over the bottom of her coat , she said , ‘ You 'd think they did it on purpose , ’ and as he went to assist her she stayed his hands , saying , ‘ It 'll only make it worse . |
| 9 | There has also seemed to be a tendency among excavators either to cling rigidly to the date of a coin , or in the case of a pottery assemblage , to aim at an average date ; perhaps in some of the excavations of the thirties , the methods used were not refined enough for a director even to be sure that all the pottery came from a particular stratified layer , and if , therefore , a few sherds appeared which were out of dating context with the main assemblage , they could be put aside as ‘ intrusions ’ and ignored . |
| 10 | Seventy-five per cent of the receipts from council-house sales , and half of the receipts from other sales , must be set aside as provision to meet credit liabilities ( Local Government and Housing Act 1989 : Clause 59 ) , and only the remainder is available for further capital expenditure . |
| 11 | One track in each cylinder is set aside as an embedded overflow area . |
| 12 | Furthermore , the whole list of injuries is set aside as a sort of sub-section , marked by three asterisks at the top and three at the bottom , so that the change of topic or scene is explicitly signalled to the reader . |
| 13 | Duvall untensed , standing aside as the three other members of the forensic team blundered out into the corridor . |
| 14 | Subsequently he disobeys God disastrously , and has to be set aside as king in favour of David . |
| 15 | His survival as a traditional monarch was exceptional in a period when , elsewhere in Africa , tribal authority was denigrated and often pushed aside as an antique obstacle to the path of modernization and national self-determination . |
| 16 | He stood aside as the doctor , consulting quickly with Mr Multhrop who had arrived glassy-eyed and panic-stricken , arranged to have Sir Thomas carried to another room . |
| 17 | He tossed it aside as if it were made of straw and she knew she would be lost if he touched her . |
| 18 | Summoning her courage , she pushed past him into the gangway between the stalls , then leapt aside as a porter nearly ran her over with a loaded trolley . |
| 19 | Athelstan was always surprised at-the effect he caused ; here he was in a place where man died for the price of a few coins , but at the sight of the lighted wax candle , the sound of the small tinkling bell and him swathed in a cope , the coarsest men and women stood aside as if they acknowledged the great mysteries he carried. , |
| 20 | Just because I 'm a girl I can be brushed aside as if I 'm of no account . |
| 21 | In fact the threat of default by a Third World country could put the banks in a tight spot ; which is why virtually all the big banks have recently started to keep money aside as ‘ loan-loss ’ provision . |
| 22 | Amnesty International declared : " Governments can not brush rape in custody aside as a lesser abuse or isolated act . |
| 23 | And all of us as it were , set aside as a block , all the second homes as holiday homes and say , those are as it were , outside this enquiry , we 'll leave them there . |
| 24 | If the representation has been made fraudulently or recklessly ( not caring whether or not it is true ) , then at common law the remedy of rescission is available ( setting the contract aside as if it had never been made at all ) , together with a right to recover any money laid out . |
| 25 | All sources , especially late ones , are likely to get things wrong , sometimes spectacularly so , but that does not mean that everything in them can simply be swept aside as nonsense . |
| 26 | Parts of Tunstall and Rendlesham forests , in Suffolk , are being set aside as a reserve for the woodlark , one of Britain 's rarest birds . |
| 27 | He swept her resistance aside as if it were a cobweb . |
| 28 | They pushed on up the Mercery , standing aside as a group of debtors from the Marshalsea , linked by chains , moved through the crowd , begging for alms both for themselves and other inmates . |
| 29 | At the corner of Bowyers Row they stood aside as a huge , wooden wagon rolled by , pulled by four horses , their manes hogged , eyes blinkered and nostrils flaring at the corrupting smell of death . |
| 30 | Cranston stepped aside as a butcher and two fletchers rolled barrels of salted pork down to the store house . |