Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [det] sides " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bloody-mindedness on all sides soon began to show in the economic performance of the region . |
| 2 | There must be an intention on both sides for there to be legal consequences in the event of a breach , in order to constitute a binding contract . |
| 3 | One must mind one 's manners ( and one 's metaphors — tarring with brushes , for instance ! ) when venturing on to the territory that Pound opens up with his reflections on the ethnic mix of the American population , and the distinction that he makes between the older stock ( Eliots and Pounds ) and the relative late-come immigrants ( Williams 's stock on both sides ) . |
| 4 | It has now become commonplace to observe that the 1960s witnessed a rapid increase in educational investment on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 5 | When , late that night , they parted for the last time , Baldwin 's words were a little rehearsed , but there nonetheless appears to have been genuine emotion on both sides . |
| 6 | The Manchurian winter took its toll on both sides . |
| 7 | Does my hon. Friend recognise that there is disappointment on both sides of the Chamber at the recent decision by British Airways ? |
| 8 | ) So I 'd say the probability is pretty high that there 's Gittel blood on both sides . ’ |
| 9 | In the East the Russian and Swedish forces were remarkable for their national character and resulting homogeneity ; and every Russo-Turkish war was a religious at least as much as a political struggle to the ordinary soldier on both sides . |
| 10 | A little more confidence and openness on both sides would inspire a little more confidence in those who want to see the differences met and resolved rather than quietly avoided . |
| 11 | The bearer of bad tidings fumbled with her layers of damp shawls and Dot felt fear on all sides till she was suffocated , as though lying beneath collapsed building rubble . |
| 12 | Nevertheless the results were highly controversial and Sue Elliott , the official in charge of children 's television at Britain 's Independent Television Commission watchdog , says : ‘ Extensive research on both sides of the Atlantic has not established a clear link between watching violent television and violent behaviour . ’ |
| 13 | In the presence of actinomycin a clear footprint is evident around the central GpC with enhanced DNase I cleavage on both sides within the A n and T n tracts as previously reported [ 23 ] . |
| 14 | That is what is causing so much distress on both sides of the House . |
| 15 | This type of family construct can become entirely negative , leading to unhappiness on all sides . |
| 16 | I look all the way round but all I can see are the shapes of the trolleys and the wire fence on both sides . |
| 17 | THE US and EC have reached agreement in principle on common limits for public subsidies to the steel industry on both sides of the Atlantic , based closely on existing Community rules . |
| 18 | He should face justice , and he should face it as an example to the men of violence on both sides . |
| 19 | To the last moment he had feared a trap , but this was the fresh air before him , the dim air of the ravine he knew , hemmed in with rock on both sides between the church and the castle . |
| 20 | In Robert Roberts 's farming family this seems to have been the accepted practice on both sides : later on , as a young farm servant , he went to work for an uncle where his mother 's parents still lived in the farmhouse . |
| 21 | There were murmurs of accord on all sides . |
| 22 | The amalgamation of kingdoms was itself carried out with the greatest animosity on both sides . |
| 23 | The main characteristic of rejuvenation terraces and breaks of slope in the valley side caused by the same process is that the terraces are essentially paired , so that they occur at the same elevation on both sides of the valley . |
| 24 | At one time he , he lived at , they lived at but er er she was a widow and she was ninety but she was very good to us and , but we had er , we had apartments but there was a lock on both sides of the door , you know what I mean , we were quite self-contained and we had er er a narrow stairs and because of the war I could n't , you could n't er , I used to scrub the stairs down because you could n't buy carpet in those days , you see because of the war and to the shortage of stuff and so I used to keep those stairs nice and , we had a , a , we went , as we went up these stairs erm it , I suppose originally , you see , it would have been back stairs for the servants , you see , in the hall and this old lady used to go in and if ever she had the doctor she used to ask me if I would go and sit with her and hold her hand while the doctor came , you see . |
| 25 | Since the ‘ second wave ’ of the women 's movement exploded onto the scene on both sides of the Atlantic in the late 1960s , few fields of study have escaped the searching gaze of feminism . |
| 26 | I have friends and relatives by marriage on all sides of this hateful and destructive conflict and I believe that , in the end , its solution will be found through reconciliation , firstly of individuals and then of communities . |
| 27 | English hostility and mistrust of the Irish cover uncertainties and insecurities about the position of civilisation and savagery on both sides of the Irish sea . |
| 28 | The vines surround the village on all sides , but those grown on the highest slopes , on either side of the D10 to the west of Ambonnay , are by far the most successful ; on the plain , either side of the D9 , the vineyards are noticeably inferior . |
| 29 | there is black-out on both sides of the swell . |
| 30 | It was a hard-fought battle on both sides , but eventually the Orcs began to gain the upper hand , and the knights fell back before them . |