Example sentences of "[verb] on [num] side [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grasping her small suitcase in one hand , Gina followed the sign , drawing up with a soft exclamation of pleasure as she found herself in an oblong courtyard surrounded on two sides by what was obviously her hotel , a tall building of nineteenth-century architecture , its red-tiled roof gabled and decorated with iron curlicues , its many-paned white-framed windows set in mellowed red brick reflecting the pale northern sunshine . |
| 2 | Located in the heart of the Derbyshire countryside , surrounded on four sides by hills , it was a monument to the backwardness of penal reform . |
| 3 | Although surrounded on three sides by the sea the warming influence of the North Atlantic helps give mild winters and good summers . |
| 4 | Once through its portals you find yourself in a courtyard surrounded on three sides by the relatively undisturbed medieval manor , whose mullioned windows have sometimes been exchanged for sash . |
| 5 | It is the best area in Britain for megalithic sites , and is surrounded on three sides by the sea . |
| 6 | The mere is the large village pond surrounded on three sides by a dense bank of elm and sycamore , and is closely associated visually with the churchyard . |
| 7 | A city of 3.2 million people , Rangoon is surrounded on three sides by water and dominated by the glistening gold stupa of the Shwedagon . |
| 8 | The house was entered from the left into a sheltered deck area running its length and surrounded on three sides by louvred shutters . |
| 9 | There was a small rectangle of land beside the jetty , surrounded on three sides by steep clay walls . |
| 10 | In or about that year Count Hartmann of Kyburg built the town on a rock that was surrounded on three sides by the river Aare . |
| 11 | Surrounded on three sides by railway , it is not suitable for housing because of the large concentration of industry around that area . |
| 12 | An island fortress surrounded on three sides by a deep moat which emptied into the lake situated on the eastern side of the keep . |
| 13 | The ranch is surrounded on three sides by intensive arable agriculture , split into tiny small-holdings and , for the most part , being worked on land totally unsuitable for the purpose . |
| 14 | Beyond them is a courtyard surrounded on three sides by the rear walls of office buildings , like a miniature version of Horse Guards Parade . |
| 15 | It was only sometimes that I 'd wake and find Bernard snoring on one side of me and Uncle Bill giving an occasional snort on the other . |
| 16 | There were no houses in sight : the wooded mountain rose on one side of the old railway track and fell steeply away on the other . |
| 17 | The question of exactly which left handers have speech located on one side of the brain or the other and which of them have speech represented bilaterally can not yet be answered unequivocally . |
| 18 | Also , there is a 14 amino acids long putative alpha helical region at positions 328 to 341 containing 8 alanine residues , 6 of which would be located on one side of the putative alpha helix . |
| 19 | The peaks of these complexes are successively located on one side of the baseline and then on the other , and this positive then negative polarity in the frontal plane of the ECG creates the typical twisting-about-a-point appearance ( fig 1 ) . |
| 20 | What happens when you ‘ plate ’ is that you get the main yarn appearing on one side of the fabric and the plating yarn on the other side . |
| 21 | The Mamur Zapt stands on one side of you , the Man on the other . |
| 22 | That 's the bit that joins on one side of the main entrance area ? |
| 23 | The pier is small , the cottages few and tidily arranged , the little beaches a delight for pebble collectors , the bay a narrow inlet of Loch Torridon landlocked on three sides by gaunt grey hills , and only the cry of seabirds disturbs the silence . |
| 24 | We stopped on one side of the narrow road . |
| 25 | He looked at me with his head cocked on one side like a bright-eyed bird . |
| 26 | In some situations this type of abrupt and complete switch-over is necessary since it is not possible to have both old and new methods running side by side ( for example in switching over from driving on one side of the road to the other as in Sweden ) . |
| 27 | Ceramic tiles are thin slabs of fired clay decorated on one side with coloured glazes , and often with a printed or handpainted pattern too . |
| 28 | It crashed on one side of a thick hedge . |
| 29 | Each new genetic improvement selected on one side of the arms race — say predators — changes the environment for selection of genes on the other side of the arms race — prey . |
| 30 | Letters for publication must be written on one side of the paper only . |