Example sentences of "[adv] on the [adj] side " in BNC.
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| 1 | YOU : Perhaps that is somewhat on the high side . |
| 2 | There used to be a place who , place opposite on the same side as the the White Horse that eh , was selling plants , but do n't like that naked fence at all . |
| 3 | The Treasury Solicitor 's office provides legal advice and conveyancing and litigation services to a wide range of Government departments and Henry Ware 's career in the office , until he became head of it , was entirely on the advisory side . |
| 4 | At the same time , it was not to be supposed that William Joyce had put himself entirely on the wrong side of the law . |
| 5 | Without dwelling too long on the masculine side , the natural tendency of the male to ‘ beam out ’ light is actually a passive one ; he does it without thinking . |
| 6 | Edward did not create it from nothing , but he founded a new town — King 's Town — on the old site , which he manipulated especially on the western side . |
| 7 | The courses on succession should ideally be arranged for farmers in their early forties so that maximum benefits could be obtained , especially on the financial side . |
| 8 | Against the Welsh , Chalmers , who had struggled all last week to overcome shin and thigh knocks , answered his critics in no uncertain manner with some jinking running , especially on the narrow side , and accurate kicking in the gusting wind . |
| 9 | After three years of exceptionally low rainfall , especially on the eastern side of England , it is of more than academic interest to know just how much rain has fallen on the garden . |
| 10 | There are now enough people , especially on the Tory side , with a vested interest in the methodology of politics , many of them at any given time out in the cold , to make the lives of incumbents difficult . |
| 11 | There are patients here looked after by their own G Ps especially on the medical side and of course they know their G Ps . |
| 12 | ‘ Although , in fact , a lot of my top sales people are women ; especially on the telephone-selling side . |
| 13 | Enormously swollen parotid especially on the left side ; sensitive to the least touch or pressure which causes severe pain , he shrinks away when approached ; can scarcely swallow , throat sore internally ; face red and swollen ; eyes glassy and wild . |
| 14 | If I stand at the window ( which I am not going to do ) I can see a small fat man with a trilby hat , a British warm and what looks like a binocular case , standing down below on the other side of the road and peering up with an anxious concentration at this battered , paint-peeling semi-circle of so-called Mansion Flats . |
| 15 | Miss Clinton had driven down the dale , but as she was bound for Scotland she would cross the river by the road-bridge four miles down and then turn back again upstream on the opposite side of the river . |
| 16 | He sat down on the far side of the room and I caught only a brief view of him through the dancers , but it was undoubtedly Ralph Pike still at large . |
| 17 | The way down on the eastern side , where I 'm bound , is not so steep , but on the other it 's a hard climb and a risky one . |
| 18 | Tossing his case over the top of it , he scrambled up and dropped lightly down on the other side . |
| 19 | Looking up at the north-facing slope ahead you would see snow and ice and you would tremble , but you would know that coming down on the other side , you would walk in sunshine , through green grass and sweet-smelling flowers . |
| 20 | She sat down on the other side of the desk . |
| 21 | Masklin ran over the shoe , jumped down on the other side , and ran on . |
| 22 | A hundred yards down on the other side of the road a knot of men were gathered . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've a hunch , ’ he said , putting the heavy volume down on the other side of the board to the knives and the water . |
| 24 | By the light of the fires he could see Paul already sitting cross-legged on a buffalo skin by the pholy , and he sank gratefully down on the other side of him . |
| 25 | She dropped down on the other side of the sweetheart plant from Rain , bowed her head , rested her right hand lightly on the keys , shut her eyes tight and concentrated . |
| 26 | She preferred the additional wearisome walk , half an hour up and half an hour back down on the other side , to bothering one of these absorbed people . |
| 27 | Clinging to this assurance , Isabel listened to the rain beating down on the other side of the wall and refused to think about her peculiar reactions to fitzAlan any longer . |
| 28 | The mirror is then placed on top of the straight-edge ( or a thin timber batten ) and lined up with it , tapped lightly to ‘ spread the cut ’ , and broken by pressing firmly down on the two sides of the cut . |
| 29 | Again , change hands , push the tiller to where you were sitting , watch for the boom , as it swings across , straighten up and sit down on the new side . |
| 30 | Turn right into er what is a very busy er road in any event at that time but that the dangers is that many drivers are becoming impatient with waiting their turn in the queue and what they 're doing is driving down on the wrong side of the road in order to utilise a little back road that 's a service road which runs alongside road and leads into Nightingale avenue . |