Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] on the [adj] side " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the alliance with Athens must have been renewed before the beginning of the Peloponnesian War when Thessalians fought on the Athenian side again ( Thuc. ii.22 ) . |
| 2 | And the involuntary malice within the desperate attempts to remain on the safe side of the frontier of madness . |
| 3 | I like the house , the countryside , the cleanliness of England and I also like the way the cars drive on the wrong side of the road . |
| 4 | is being choked and polluted by the motor car , coming specially from large housing estates built on the wrong side of |
| 5 | ‘ Its distinctive feature is the outer wall facing what was for some time the running lines of the railway , though these tracks are now wholly within the works area , the main lines passing on the other side of the canal . |
| 6 | Slow footsteps approach on the other side of the door . |
| 7 | I guess the performance of the instruments will have to validate the name , because if these guitars err on the trashy side , that will have been a waste of rather a neat moniker … |
| 8 | Later , a few thousand hardliners rallied on the other side of Red Square to call on the government to quit . |
| 9 | A small black mark to Pickwick for not adding the names of the composers to the list of contents printed on the reverse side of the CD box . |
| 10 | Clearly , market efficiency on its own is not testable as the expectations term on the right-hand side of equation ( 3.27 ) is not observable . |
| 11 | A few weak lights shone on the far side , and headlights on the Otter Ferry road , two miles away across the black expanse of waves , swung out briefly , like a lighthouse beam … and then dimmed and disappeared . |
| 12 | Does he agree that to stimulate demand within the United Kingdom home market , where problems exist on the retail side , the industry is entitled to expect some special attention from the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the next Budget , which could include a reduction in or the total elimination of the appalling 10 per cent . |
| 13 | This is not the support that might have been expected for fellow Germans stuck on the communist side after 1945 . |
| 14 | This was not as easy as they hoped ; they knew that , however much it might disapprove of their activities , the English government certainly had no power to get its orders obeyed on the western side of the Atlantic , but their charter , which they hoped would make them independent of England , and on which they relied for the legal basis of their community , said — like all the other charters — that they must not pass laws that were not consistent with English laws . |
| 15 | Li Yuan looked across at the pile of folders balanced on the far side of his father 's desk . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly , we can trace this same arms race on the other side . |
| 17 | Pinch 's interests lie on the editorial side . |
| 18 | Collectively , the population of Britain perform millions of acts every day during their waking hours , yet the net result of all this is not chaos and confusion , but a reasonable approximation of order : motorists drive on the left-hand side of the road , not on the right ; shoppers offer coins and banknotes , cheques and cheque cards in exchange for goods and services , not goats and chickens or nothing at all ; love-making takes place indoors in bedrooms , and not outside on the pavement . |
| 19 | He wants to be friends with America because he thinks only American intervention will secure his aims ( he offered in the Gulf war to send 200,000 Sikhs to fight on the American side ) . |
| 20 | Now that the Khanate was secure , the only challenges lay on the other side of the Great Sea . |
| 21 | Three men catching on the off side , a slip , gully and silly point . |
| 22 | All the same , when Wycliffe arrived , there were three vehicles parked on the opposite side of the square from the police station ; two were blue vans carrying the badge of the area police force , while the third belonged to the telephone engineers . |
| 23 | There had been concern that while negotiations ground on the playing side of the club was suffering . |
| 24 | A knot of men stood on the other side of the broad avenue as he walked through the gate . |
| 25 | The women sit on the other side of the partition , but they can hear every word . ’ |
| 26 | And the boys say on the one side and the girls on the other . |
| 27 | Then serge ( page 34 ) the turning allowance of the outer fabric to the turning of the interlining on the back of the pelmet and through the buckram , making sure no stitches show on the right side . |
| 28 | Boys sitting on the right-hand side of the bus , for example , would set up in opposition to the boys on the left in order to have someone to mock and to shout joking imprecations at . |
| 29 | In order that the method of fixing is secured to the pelmet buckram and not only to the lining , hand stitch , with a strong needle and thread , along the previous machine stitching on the tape , catching the buckram but not allowing the stitches to show on the right side . |
| 30 | That is why the man with binoculars stands on the opposite side of the road . |