Example sentences of "to be [prep] the [adj] side " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't I mean probably it 's just to be to the safe side . |
| 2 | Laura Tyson , the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers , who is meant to be on the protectionist side of this debate , flatly denies this : those who believe it , she says , are living in a ‘ different reality ’ . |
| 3 | Er , when you 've finished with it , all I want is the token off the corner of the page it happens to be on the reverse side |
| 4 | Further west , nitrogens in the few crops of Puffin barley so far harvested are said to be on the low side . |
| 5 | It would be important to be on the right side of the nuns too . |
| 6 | Chris said it was obvious you would have to be on the right side . |
| 7 | This must make him an ideal employer for Mrs Brocklebank whom he reckoned to be on the lazy side . |
| 8 | This takes a bit of practice and does not work well if you hands tend to be on the clammy side ! |
| 9 | He highlights the more challenging places , but says that the skiing tends to be on the tame side . |
| 10 | ‘ OK , we 'll make it half-eight just to be on the safe side . ’ |
| 11 | However , to be on the safe side , it is better to take cuttings in August to overwinter under glass . |
| 12 | We bought one ( a mistake , we should have got two ) to supplement an old ladle-handle type of thing dug out from my past , and a hammer and a few pegs to be on the safe side . |
| 13 | And with these words he points towards an icon of the Saviour before which he has lighted a lamp — ‘ to be on the safe side , ’ Peter suggests . |
| 14 | But just to be on the safe side Mrs Lawson was stationed in 11 Downing Street , giving her husband a convenient reason to visit the capital if circumstances took a sudden turn for the worse . |
| 15 | To be on the safe side , he burnt his when he got home , presumably unaware that this was , liturgically , the ‘ correct ’ and Catholic thing to do , though some forty-six weeks too early . |
| 16 | To be on the safe side , they feel that they need to have equity ratios of at least a percentage point or two above the BIS minimum . |
| 17 | He cut a lot to be on the safe side . |
| 18 | ‘ They do n't think it 's anything serious , but one has to be on the safe side . ’ |
| 19 | I 'd best take a look , just to be on the safe side . ’ |
| 20 | Just to be on the safe side ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Apologise for the intrusion , to be on the safe side . ’ |
| 22 | She must fetch her raincoat , just to be on the safe side . |
| 23 | To be on the safe side why do n't we stand the zinc bath out the rear and let that fill up with rainwater ? ’ |
| 24 | The glass roof of the building allowed in sufficient light for his purpose ; though , to be on the safe side , he took two exposures with a magnesium flash-gun also . |
| 25 | ‘ To be on the safe side , I 've been back to the beginning of the year . |
| 26 | The Medway Letter Line was meant to include ‘ unknown ’ floods , as well as recorded ones , and as information on flooding has become more sophisticated , it can now be seen to have overstated the benefit area by attempting to be on the safe side . |
| 27 | The poor girl had gone off to her camp before she had formulated any hypotheses ; she had no idea as to what theory or concepts her work was to throw new light on , and so , to be on the safe side , she had recorded everything she could think of over a period of about six weeks and her notebooks practically filled a medium-sized suitcase . |
| 28 | The report says that , to be on the safe side , it is better to assume that there is no ‘ no effect ’ level . |
| 29 | You can reckon to need twenty to support a 100-yard net , allowing a few spares to be on the safe side and to allow for breakage . |
| 30 | ‘ Just to be on the safe side ’ , said Mrs Joel . |