Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] all side " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact it has nothing to do with political affiliations at all , since admiration and support for Rigoberta Menchu has come from all sides . |
| 2 | But Mr Waddington 's tone left colleagues in little doubt about his lack of enthusiasm about having to solve another minister 's problems with legislation which will be attacked from all sides , including Tory rightwingers . |
| 3 | But Mr Waddington 's tone left colleagues in little doubt about his lack of enthusiasm about having to solve another minister 's problems with legislation which will be attacked from all sides , including Tory rightwingers . |
| 4 | Mr Major — who hoped that David Mellor 's resignation would overshadow the debate — was attacked from all sides . |
| 5 | However , It was a majestic sight seeing Leeds hammer a side into submission , especially at Elland Rd … being attacked from all sides . |
| 6 | A first time garden is usually small and certainly the typical one I am imagining for this series is no more than 40ft x 20ft and surrounded on all sides by other houses . |
| 7 | Following Emily in , he found himself surrounded on all sides by sagging shelves bearing rusty paint tins ; jam jars containing stubby brushes ; bottles half full of amber fluid , and oil cans . |
| 8 | The site of Castlerigg stone circle in the Lake District is an example , where the plateau on which it is sited is surrounded on all sides by mountain peaks . |
| 9 | The village of Villedommange is surrounded on all sides by vineyards which are a continuation northwards of the slopes of Écueil and Sacy . |
| 10 | Aquitaine was then surrounded on all sides ( except the sea coast ) by fiefs which stood in a more immediate relationship to the Capetians than ever before . |
| 11 | Here there was a delay , for Fiver — surrounded on all sides by the quiet summer evening — became helpless and almost paralysed with fear . |
| 12 | Historical and geographical facts were intertwined : the country had been ‘ founded in 1821 after fighting between the Zulus and the Boers ’ ; it was surrounded on all sides by South Africa and contained mountain ranges , and so on . |
| 13 | The fact that the country is surrounded on all sides by South Africa is ‘ not a bad thing ’ : it enables 50,000 Lesothan men to work in South African mines , returning with their ‘ pockets bursting with rands ’ . |
| 14 | SEVEN STOPS NORTH-WEST of Baker Street on the Metropolitan Line , Pinner is the quintessence of a certain kind of Englishness , an embattled outpost of suburbia surrounded on all sides by the encroaching urban sprawl . |
| 15 | It is thus characteristic of traditional mytho-history that the real world of experience is surrounded on all sides by another world of the imagination which is inhabited by superhuman gods on the one hand and by sub-human unnatural monsters on the other : dog-headed men , men with tails , Amazonian women , cannibals , giants . |
| 16 | The town , known to have had the status of a vicus , is surrounded on all sides by numerous kiln sites and workshops which are everywhere interspersed with agricultural features and a number of substantial extra-mural houses or villas . |
| 17 | In an interview with France ( Inter ) radio on Oct. 11 Aoun admitted that he was surrounded on all sides , but claimed to be ready for " the last battle " . |
| 18 | In one sense the shock of industrialisation lay precisely in the stark contrast between the black , monotonous , crowded and scarred settlements and the coloured farms and hills immediately adjoining them , as in Sheffield , ‘ noisy , smoky , loathsome ( but ) … surrounded on all sides by some of the most enchanting countryside to be found on this planet ’ . |
| 19 | The woody floras of those forests that are surrounded on all sides by arid woodlands consist of species with wide neotropical distributions and many of them are found elsewhere in a wide range of habitats while few are restricted to montane forest . |
| 20 | We 're being attacked on all sides , quite frankly . |
| 21 | He claimed his members were being attacked on all sides — on market testing , privatisation and pay . |
| 22 | The reticence which had surrounded the subject for so long had suddenly collapsed on all sides . |
| 23 | Nonetheless he stands out as a prophetic beacon , a fresh and radical thinker whose radicalism did not lie in attempting a consciously ‘ modern reinterpretation ’ of Christian faith , but in struggling afresh with the heart of the matter , and charting out a very different course from those being recommended on all sides around him . |
| 24 | Capt Forgrave 's citation said he ‘ became widely respected by all sides as a courageous , totally honest and highly capable officer . ’ |
| 25 | Start with small sprigs of the foliage that will form the body of the arrangement and push them into the foam at random to make a fairly even shape , as seen from all sides . |
| 26 | So unhatched eggs , whether of insects or birds , crabs or reptiles , are threatened on all sides . |
| 27 | The tradition stems from long familiarity of the conductor and singers with the opera in hand and with each other 's performance , so that a unified approach can be felt on all sides . |
| 28 | To this must be added the cost of accommodation in the future , it being accepted on all sides that the plaintiff 's present home , though much loved by her , is not suitable in any long term assessment . |
| 29 | His widow Margaret held on for another 45 years , beset on all sides by warring local landowners who claimed parts of the island , as its boundaries grew ever-closer to the Holderness mainland . |
| 30 | In the multiracial , multicultural society which the United Kingdom has become , there are adjustments to be made on all sides . |