Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] the side of " in BNC.

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1 Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader .
2 During August , Russia 's Constitutional Court had come down on the side of Izvestiya and Yeltsin , while the Prosecutor 's Office and the Russian Federal Property Fund had unsuccessfully supported the Supreme Soviet .
3 Now there was some dispute over whether Berlin or Bonn should be the capital , they 've come down on the side of Berlin , but is that dispute settled now ?
4 The Late Show , challenged by David Hare to decide whether Keats was more important than Dylan , now seems inclined to come down on the side of Keats .
5 Pancevski himself appeared to come down on the side of the Serbian position by stressing repeatedly that political pluralism " must be based on socialist orientation and the federal structure " and asserting : " The LCY finds unacceptable the thesis according to which the essence and form of political pluralism are reduced to a classic multiparty system alone . "
6 We 're told it 's a very close thing , the decision not to participate erm and there were certain technical and theoretical reasons , I think , that led them to come down on the side of not .
7 They finally came down on the side of 36-year-old Anne Bancroft , although she had seldom played comedy , having made her name in such powerful dramas as The Miracle Worker and The Pumpkin Eater .
8 There 's that side of things , and I hope that that is changing , alas again too slowly erm I think the Taylor report , which firmly came down on the side of more lay control of schools by parents and members of the community , put up and unanswerable case .
9 The Neue Mozart Ausgabe ( hereafter NMA ) ( Kassel , 1955- ) came out on the side of ‘ dualism ’ and has systematically tried to reproduce as faithfully as possible the two distinct signs while various of its editors explained the rationale for this editorial policy .
10 This question came out of the side of her mouth and Millie , quick to catch on , muttered , ‘ Ten . ’
11 But who can blame UEFA , post-Heysel , for coming down on the side of life and limb before either is lost ?
12 I have been criticised for coming down on the side of the second alternative .
13 My supper flapped off round the corner in a storm of feathers with the blood coming out of the side of its beak .
14 Paul spends most of the rest of his letter dealing with the problem in Corinth ; he does n't come down on the side of being totally separate or of being totally indistinguishable in lifestyle — but you 'll have to read that for yourself .
15 Sheer orders of magnitude matter , and the orders of magnitude do not come down on the side of the real-balance effect .
16 But this what the act says on this particular point — it 's interesting to see because it really does come down on the side of integration .
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