Example sentences of "brush aside [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brushing aside the major political problem of French colonialism , ( 'there was no reason to discuss the question further' ) the real problem for de Lattre was guaranteeing priorities on the delivery of equipment . |
| 2 | At Newmarket yesterday , Chapple-Hyam produced another talented three-year-old in the Thatching gelding King Olaf , who brushed aside a strong challenge from the well-fancied Hamas , owned by Hamdan Al-Maktoum . |
| 3 | A new New Left , drawing from Dialectics of Liberation , brushed aside the tentative offerings of the old New Left , gathered in its May Day Manifesto group and comprising such stalwarts of post-1956 as Raymond Williams , E.P . |
| 4 | His hand brushed aside the long , thick hair , his lips beginning to move over her tender nape , and Maggie gave a small whimper of desire , melting against him . |
| 5 | The North have both the motivation and the coordination behind the scrum to brush aside a rebuilt Midlands team . |
| 6 | 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 . |