Example sentences of "[adj] side [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Just across on the Spanish side of the col is the opening of the fearsome gouffre in the limestone that has given the name Pierre-Saint-Martin a certain resonance .
2 Indeed in 1828 , as an inscription on the Spanish side of the Bréche records , the reckless Duchesse de Berry , widow of the assassinated second son of King Charles X , ascended to it , not under her own power but under that of her hired porters , who carried her to the top in a chair .
3 The aggressive promotion of milk sales by the supermarket giants such as Sainsbury , Tesco , Asda and Safeway , has already rocked the milk float , traditionally the most profitable side of the business for both farmers and dairy groups .
4 But there was another profitable side to the coin .
5 The problems for discussion and solving have been designed to encourage students to discuss the issues before attempting to answer the technical side of the problem .
6 In Munich , as one observer reported , each apprentice was made ‘ industrially efficient ’ ; and ‘ with this end in view ’ it was ‘ not sufficient ’ to receive instructions merely in the technical side of the trade , for the young worker to become ‘ a worthy citizen ’ , he should know something ‘ of his duties and responsibilities to the State ’ .
7 But , says Pflug , the move away from mainframes in favour of distributed computing environments is forcing change — business professionals are making more and more final information technology decisions , while computing personnel are merely shaping the technical side of the project .
8 Early medieval monasticism was largely based on the Rule of St Benedict , at least from the time of St Boniface onwards , but with the liturgical side of the Rule greatly elaborated .
9 I had moved the rubber-handled wrench from the right side of the driver 's seat to the left but I knew its presence was mostly psychological .
10 They would already be on the right side of the Border for shopping .
11 The complication was in saying the newly minted lines at the right side of the mirror whilst arriving at the same place each time .
12 On arrival she complained of cough with purulent sputum , haemoptysis , and pain in the right side of the chest in addition to her asthmatic symptoms .
13 Then if a micro-instruction contains the control bits 10011 followed by zeros , the paths from the accumulator to the left-side of the adder , from the SDR to the right side of the adder , and from the result latches to the accumulator are opened ; thus the contents of the accumulator and SDR are added together and placed in the accumulator .
14 A simple turbocharging job turns the lethargic twin-litre 940 SE into a spirited performer designed to stay the right side of the company car tax .
15 During the impact the right side and top of the instrument panel was twisted upwards and to the left , causing it to strike the left-hand side of the straining bar beneath the canopy to the left of the pilot 's head as well as impacting on the right side of the pilot 's face , resulting in minor injuries .
16 A previously attempted line on the right side of the crag , right of Unknown Gully , gave a grade V — Games of chance — to Allen Fyffe and Richard Mansfield .
17 The advantage of this over , say tuck or slip stitch is that the pattern appears on the right side of the garment .
18 Then , with the right side of the garment facing the machine , pick up the stitches around the neck and place them on the machine .
19 Join the short ends together t make a circle and with the right side of the lace to the wrong side of the neck edge , sew in place then turn the lace band over to the right side of the garment .
20 Lay garment ( test piece in this case ) on the back bed with the right side of the garment facing the ceiling and the neck edge towards you .
21 A shot aimed at the right side of the green has every chance of landing in the bunkers .
22 I dare say a good many rabbits would have kept quiet and thought about keeping on the right side of the Chief , but I 'm afraid I 'm not much good at that .
23 He took it into the box where the keeper came out & spread well , but Wallace knocked it over him into the right side of the net .
24 For economy of space occupied by the site of the lift the two inclined ways would generally be side by side and although at the same inclination and extending between the same levels they would not be in the same plane but echeloned so that the one extends , so to speak , from the right side of the head bay to the right side of the tail bay whilst the other extends from the left side of the head bay to the left side of the tail bay .
25 Eleven out of the 12 right-handers achieved higher scores after shock to the right side of the head , one patient showing no left-right difference .
26 In most people the right side of the brain has little or no verbal capacity but is slightly more important than the left for spatial ability .
27 He goes on to argue that as the right side of the brain has no language capacity , the knowledge it acquires can not be put into words : this may explain the failure of his attempts to do so .
28 Dominican thinker Matthew Fox informs us that a friend of his has told him that the right side of the brain is all about awe .
29 Impulses from the left side of the field of vision are received by the right side of the brain .
30 Similarly , messages from the left-hand field of vision of both eyes are transmitted to the right side of the brain .
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