Example sentences of "[adv] on the side " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looked as if the entire world was suddenly on the side of the underground , and they were buying Oz . |
| 2 | And he added , even more pointedly , ‘ BHS dressage techniques do n't help much on the side of a mountain or in a peat bog . ’ |
| 3 | Their shadows loomed grotesquely on the sides of the dome . |
| 4 | But who can blame UEFA , post-Heysel , for coming down on the side of life and limb before either is lost ? |
| 5 | Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I have been criticised for coming down on the side of the second alternative . |
| 9 | But we had to choose , early on , which side we belonged to , and children have to come down on the side that brings the food home and gets it on the table . |
| 10 | She placed her cup down on the side table and folded her hands together . |
| 11 | The sergeant rubbed the palms of his hands up and down on the side of his chair and waited for his boss to continue . |
| 12 | To steady himself he sank down on the side of the bed . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Slumping down on the side of the bed , she stared blankly at the cheque in her hand . |
| 15 | Nevertheless she thought it best to humour him and sat down on the side of the table away from him and put her clasped hands on its polished top . |
| 16 | Robbie 's legs gave way and she sank down on the side of the bed . |
| 17 | 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 . " |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Sheer orders of magnitude matter , and the orders of magnitude do not come down on the side of the real-balance effect . |
| 20 | Having contemplated the pro 's and con 's Darwin came down on the side in favour of marriage . |
| 21 | Rachel sighed and shook her head slightly then with a little shrug she sat down on the side of the pool and dangled her legs in the water . |
| 22 | Leonora turned away , sighing , to slump down on the side of her bed . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Just put it down on the side there . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The Queen ‘ took the opportunity of urging peace ( mutually on the side of France and Prussia ) and no arming , laying all the blame on Prussia ’ . |
| 29 | This book is obviously on the side of the enthusiasts and is written in the belief that video is a definite asset in the language classroom . |
| 30 | He cocks his head just so on the side . |