Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [adj] side " in BNC.
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| 1 | In between these two extremes comes the large mass of honourable and intelligent outdoor enthusiasts who listen to the frothings and bayings back and forth between the two factions with alarm , but without the detailed information from both sides which would enable them freely and democratically to make up their own minds , and if necessary bring their concerted pressure to bear on one side or the other to desist . |
| 2 | Cottages , however , were hard to find on that side . |
| 3 | There was no inclination to compromise on either side ; the Bishop thereupon declared that the thirty-six livings of the Church of Ireland held by the Presbyterian ministers were vacant because they had not been episcopally ordained . |
| 4 | Halling had to wait until the 1939–45 war when a military bridge was erected and a road laid down and for a few years the people of Wouldham and Halling were able to move freely between the villages , which was a great asset to the people of Wouldham who used the bridge to get to work on this side of the river , but it was certainly the death knell of the ferry . |
| 5 | As one participant has suggested , the first intellectual task is to set on one side an archaeology of knowledge which has served us well for at least three centuries . |
| 6 | Now if we 're going to exit on that side , where 's the best position that you would normally be in ? |
| 7 | What are you going to put on that side ? |
| 8 | One got the impression that Mr Callaghan felt that he had to put on one side the normal practice of consulting only a small group of inner ministers on economic issues , and had to carry all the colleagues , all twenty-two , if he was to have a hope of carrying the party in the country clearly out of the crisis . |
| 9 | In fact , there was still quite a lot to do on that side of Croydon . |
| 10 | They 'll want to land on this side anyway . |
| 11 | Did you want to go on this side ? |
| 12 | The remainder seem able to lie on one side or the other . |
| 13 | When I am ready for residential care , I may totter over to that side of the House , but until then I am happy to stay on this side . |
| 14 | Options 4 and 5 allow you to drop on either side of the lateral water hazard , not nearer the hole and within two club lengths of the point marked B , where the ball first entered the hazard . |
| 15 | Rather than defend the arts on the grounds that they are a branch of the sciences and therefore useful , I believe we should try to start again , attempting to lay on one side both the crude criterion of utility and the assumed category distinction between science and arts , itself in fact equally crude . |
| 16 | The moonlight shone off the frost settling on me fields and a wave of mist like sea surf was beginning to rise on either side of the road . |
| 17 | To her astonishment , though , when the Dobermann had just held her in a gentle restraining grip , and no more than that , she could see that there were already small signs of bruising beginning to show on either side of her ankle . |