Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on one side " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had found a patch of clean sand half-shaded by the rocks that were heaped on one side of the little cove . |
| 2 | Quarto sheets were machined four pages at a time ( hence ‘ quarto ’ ) : four pages were printed on one side of the sheet , four on the other . |
| 3 | Apparent exceptions were put on one side to await later explanation within the Newtonian framework ; and this was the proper attitude for anyone wanting public recognition as a good scientist . |
| 4 | Now that I have time again I shall also be able to finish off the other articles that were put on one side during the museum work . |
| 5 | Most of the shades hung crookedly and were scorched on one side , and she said the tinsel constituted an added fire hazard . |
| 6 | The head , which he judged to weigh just over two pounds , was blackened on one side with congealed blood from which one or two coarse grey hairs sprouted like whiskers . |
| 7 | His fair hair was parted on one side , and a lock of it fell across his forehead . |
| 8 | When the train had stopped , it was found that the child 's body was lying on one side of the rails but his head had been completely severed from the body . |
| 9 | A relatively thin piece of cardboard — more like thick paper , really — was coated on one side with a material called ‘ Durium ’ . |
| 10 | It was dented on one side . |
| 11 | It was flanked on one side by a great domed hall , supported on a quadrant of megalithic arches , each one at least twelve feet thick ; to its side the palace wall rose upwards with a colossal , almost Romanesque massiveness . |
| 12 | They were in a corridor that was lined on one side with a six-foot-high bank of cages . |
| 13 | Finally , it is of interest to note that expression of the wnt-1 proto-oncogene can reproduce all the effects of Li + , including the duplication of the dorsal axis , the increase in gap junctional communication between ventral cells , and the restoration of an axis when wnt-1 was expressed on one side of an ultraviolet-irradiated embryo . |
| 14 | I was working on one side of the car and the boot lid dropped . |