Example sentences of "[vb pp] aside [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meals are taken irregularly , sleep-cycles are disturbed and leisure activities are pushed aside to allow time for more interaction with the machine . |
| 2 | He was breathing the words against her skin , his voice muffled by the folds of cotton he had pushed aside to enable his mouth to cherish the tender apices of her pale breasts . |
| 3 | The material was pushed aside to reveal the red marks caused by the grip of his fingers . |
| 4 | A cupboard in the cell was moved aside to reveal the rope and the trap only a few feet away beyond an open door . |
| 5 | A little fold of the veil can be drawn aside to disclose his mood at that time . |
| 6 | The curtains have been drawn aside to reveal the female subject as she speaks , writes , paints — making and doing , in the original Greek sense of poiein , from which we derive ‘ poet ’ . |
| 7 | As quickly as Romanian revolutionaries changed Lenin Strada to Strada Demokratiei , the complex questions of responsibility and guilt were brushed aside to clear the way for the new era . |
| 8 | Chairwoman Dr Peggy Norris said : ‘ The Hippocratic ethic — the foundation of Western medicine — is now being ignored ; being brushed aside to permit the removal of the aged and infirm , and those like the old soldiers who do not die but take too long to fade away . |
| 9 | Erm , we did n't have those when these papers were prepared , but the position is , that there is a guideline for new starts for this Committee , of some seven hundred and eighty six thousand pounds , with two hundred thousand being set aside to go towards architects and other fee costs associated with that programme , and the existing programme . |
| 10 | On the CDC 6600 computer certain values of the floating-point exponent are set aside to represent zero , infinite , and " indefinite " operand values , and rules are given for arithmetic operations on these quantities ( for example , the difference of two infinite operands is indefinite ) . |
| 11 | Two years have been set aside to allow time to study a period of History in sufficient depth . |
| 12 | A £500,000 budget has been set aside to create a press office to represent him in Brussels , in addition to Dublin 's existing one . |
| 13 | Cumberland Lodge was and is a remarkable foundation : a grace and favour house belonging to the sovereign which , in the years after the War , had been set aside to serve as a meeting-place for university teachers and students . |
| 14 | Behind them , stacked against the wall , were two folded blankets , some cooking pots , a sack of flour , another of potatoes , and a wooden jar where one day 's surplus milk was set aside to curdle . |
| 15 | This year September and 12 , have been set aside to give the public a chance to visit important buildings that are usually private , and take part in guided tours , exhibitions and demonstrations throughout the province . |
| 16 | Within this year 's operational costs , some £62 million was set aside to reshape and restructure AEA to enable us to develop as a successful commercial business . |
| 17 | Of each quarterly instalment , 25 per cent would be set aside to support debt-reduction operatons . |
| 18 | Similar thoughts may have crossed his mind one week into the run when , on the night set aside to entertain employees , families and friends of Irish Life — who were sponsoring the festival — Archaos refused to perform proclaiming to the gathered throng that they had yet to be paid . |
| 19 | But would n't it be a wonderful New Year gesture if the Government declared here and now that the first few million will be set aside to save St Bart 's . |
| 20 | And in preparing for his own comfortable future , Robert Maxwell plundered £1 billion , which had been set aside to secure the future of hundreds of his workers . |
| 21 | An allocation is usually set aside to cover the purchase of readers ' requests ( for older material ) . |
| 22 | Manor court rolls and deeds show that families possessed small parcels of land on a variety of copyhold , leasehold and freehold tenures and that income from even the smallest holdings was often set aside to provide for dependants . |
| 23 | £5000 was set aside to pay a replacement teacher . |
| 24 | And the remaining cash is to be set aside to clear up the old Blacketts brickworks off Alexander Street , Darlington , where residents have complained of fly tipping . |
| 25 | The prince scraped up the money they had set aside to repair the roof again and Anna went off to India with some English acquaintances and stayed with the viceroy and came back with a ruby . |
| 26 | The EC itself has not attached environmental conditions in the cases of Poland and Hungary , but Carlo Ripa di Meana , the EC Environment Commissioner , has insisted that a sum ( still to be agreed ) must be set aside to bring the East 's environment up to scratch and there are proposals for training environmental managers . |
| 27 | Like an unearthly cross between Paul McCartney , Gerry Sadowitz and someone you beat up every day at school , Louis is Kinky Machine 's trump card , illegally bad leather jacket cast aside to reveal bare chest within seconds , silly guitar played above the head on all-too-many occasions , halfway-house haircut shaken at the crowd as if he 's trying to violently throw off a wig . |
| 28 | Where politicians have challenged him , he has outmanoeuvred them until such time as he perceived his work to be done ; and then — Vienna 1964 , Berlin 1989 — he simply and quickly stepped aside to move on to fresh projects . |
| 29 | He bought a pen , which he did not need , in a small general store , and as he was leaving stepped aside to let Murray pass . |
| 30 | Ed Taylor , president of Pencom Software Inc , Austin , Texas , has stepped aside to make way for Frank King , erstwhile head of software development at Lotus Development Corp and past vice president of development for IBM 's personal computer division . |