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 . |