Example sentences of "[vb past] aside for " in BNC.

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1 A year or so earlier George Younger stepped aside for Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home , who had renounced his peerage .
2 At the one-way door that led back into the station 's tiny foyer and reception area , she stepped aside for him and said , ‘ I hope you find her . ’
3 He 's reckoned to have a minimum of $50 million put aside for an incredibly rainy day .
4 When the Israelites go out to gather it , each of them gathers exactly the right amount for himself and his family ; on the sixth day of the week a double portion is given and collected so that the sabbath rest can be properly kept ; on the sabbath , appropriately , no manna appears at all ; while any kept at the end of any of the first five days goes bad overnight , the half of the sixth day 's gathering put aside for the sabbath keeps perfectly fresh .
5 Among other provisions in the accounts is a sum of £125 million put aside for environmental work at sites used for gasworks made redundant by the arrival of North Sea gas in the late 1960s .
6 Chief Supt Terry Tasker stressed there was no crowd fighting , adding : ‘ Some Leeds supporters bought tickets for other parts of the ground and they were flushed out and taken to the enclosure set aside for them . ’
7 Chief Supt Terry Tasker stressed there was no crowd fighting , adding : ‘ Some Leeds supporters bought tickets for other parts of the ground and they were flushed out and taken to the enclosure set aside for them . ’
8 His passport carries the word ‘ courtier ’ in the space set aside for occupation — a joke he came to regret when arriving at Darwin airport to be faced by a massive , bronzed Australian immigration official who looked down and told him ‘ that 's not the way you spell courier , mate . ’
9 There are many other beautiful things there but I can not resist quoting a caption — for once , given in English — in the room set aside for the revolution of 1848 .
10 If hundreds of thousands of Mickey Mouse fans choose to celebrate their preference together in a small area set aside for them in the north of France , then the rest of the country can breathe a sigh of relief and head somewhere else .
11 There was nobody who remembered the days of churches where people assembled for religious ceremonies , but they resented the idea of a TOM replacing the function of the antique building set aside for sacred ceremonies .
12 Last December , Congress charged that money set aside for cleaning up several of the 400 ‘ top-priority ’ dumps had been held up last autumn so as not to benefit local Democratic officeholders , who were fighting off Republican challengers in the November elections .
13 There was a breakfast room set aside for the train party where a piece of the mystery would unravel each morning .
14 His proposed extension would also include an area set aside for temporary exhibitions covering some 1,600 square metres , compared with less than half that at present — a further net increase of 850 square metres .
15 IBM said that the cost of the actions will be approximately $2,100m net , on top of the $2,100m that it will take to cover the cost of the voluntary redundancies , the $4,200m total to be offset by adoption of Financial Accounting Standard 109(a) , which will allow the company to write back to the profit and loss account about $1,900m in money set aside for deferred taxes .
16 He was free to lay down what proportion of their produce was to be made over to him , and how many days in the week they were to work the fields he set aside for his own use .
17 Nearby there is an amusement arcade , an attractive boating lake , and a large area set aside for passive recreation which includes a viewing mound providing superb views of the North Wales coastal area .
18 But most students will spend much of their time working in the college library , study centre or some other room set aside for quiet study ( i.e. not the refectory or student union ) .
19 In the shadow of the gigantic cooling towers of Thorpe Marsh , North Eastern Region 's 1000 MW Coal-fired Power Station , is an exciting area set aside for wildlife .
20 Equally , however , the farmer is entitled to demand that the countryside be viewed neither as a more extensive version of an urban recreation ground , nor as an arcadian idyll set aside for the pursuit of an indulgent atavism .
21 Dig over and weed vacant ground set aside for vegetables , being careful to dig up roots of perennial weeds , such as dock .
22 In the little office set aside for him , Wycliffe brooded over the accumulating mound of paper , the expanding case file , and among the rest a preliminary report from Franks on the autopsy .
23 They 'd been strolling through the individual gardens within the whole for more than two hours , while Rune told her about the traditions of the gardens and how , despite attempts at imitation , they remained unique in Europe — if not the world — before they reached the area set aside for the funfair and he suggested she might like a ride on some of the attractions .
24 Although a lot of space may not be available , a small area set aside for dining is always useful .
25 As he will be aware , in June the United States Government had a sum of , I think , $21 million which had been earmarked for military aid set aside for the very purposes that the hon. Gentleman suggests .
26 The capacity of the stadium has been limited to 17,000 with Dublin being allocated 10,000 , 5,000 to Wexford and the remainder set aside for neutrals .
27 It was agreed that for the moment one Model 30 , re-allocated from ( 2 ) above , will be provided for pool use by all Associates , to be sited in the room set aside for Associates .
28 The amount set aside for capital injections into state companies rose to F5,600 million .
29 He was buried in the graveyard at St Luke 's Church , Whyteleafe , in Airmen 's Corner , a plot set aside for those who served at the nearby Kenley base and at Croydon .
30 In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning :
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