Example sentences of "on [num] [noun sg] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one side is the spineless Bishop Barrantes , representing the worst aspects of the Church 's mugwumpery and corruption ; on the other is Father Maby , confidant of Elena and friend to the poor and displaced in his jungle retreat ; his work is less glamorous than the revolutionary 's , but his wisdom and gentleness make him the unexpected hero of the novel . |
| 2 | On one side is the shattering power of time : This feeling of inevitability becomes so strong that it makes the poem comment on itself in surprised awareness — ‘ Oh fearful meditation ! ’ — and pushes on to an apparently unanswerable climax : ‘ Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back ? / Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid ? ’ |
| 3 | Lining up on one side is the Baker Street pub in appropriately , Baker street . |
| 4 | ‘ On one side are the armorial bearings of those nobles who supported the King . |
| 5 | On one side was the flower-garden view ; on the other , one window had been bricked up at the time when windows were taxed , and I walked over to the remaining window . |
| 6 | On one side was the fast-running river , on the other was the dark hillside . |
| 7 | On one side were the Marxist commandantes , puppets of a giant colonizing power , in their camouflage fatigues and their designer sunglasses , carrying foreign ideology like a loathsome bacillus ; on the other the indigenous peasants , barefoot , in straw hats , driven to the point of taking up arms . |
| 8 | On one side were the Goldsmiths ' Company 's arms , in gold , four yards in diameter , with the legend " Free Grammar School , Stockport " ; on the other the arms again , with " Founded and Endowed by Sir Edmond Shaa , Knight , 1487 ; Re-endowed by the Worshipful the Goldsmiths ' Company , 1832 " in gold letters . |