Example sentences of "[was/were] on [art] side " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prince had had an inkling of what was to come in Wales , when the crowds had been so eager to see Diana that they could scarcely hide their disappointment if Charles and Diana took one side of the street each and they were on the side of the street he took . |
| 2 | Half a dozen sailors were on the side deck . |
| 3 | As the most intellectually enlightened of the sects , they were on the side of the ruling power . |
| 4 | Accordingly , when the development of deaf education gave rise to controversy , missioners were on the side of the deaf and dumb , supported their aspirations and helped to argue their case . |
| 5 | If they were on the side of the English couple with weird habits , then the whole village would be . |
| 6 | The remains of a sandwich lunch were on the side table . |
| 7 | Well I was gon na say it did n't have erm have lines , they were on the side . |
| 8 | He come flying round that bend near mums and nearly his kids were on the side of the road and he come through there |
| 9 | An extraordinarily high proportion of Milton scholars have chosen to disregard these truths about their subject , and have decided that because Milton was on the side of the regicides this made him a revolutionary and , because a revolutionary , therefore a man of the Left , perhaps even an agonized Maminst , or at least a sympathizer with the Diggers and Levellers of his own day . |
| 10 | But the weight of opinion was on the side of the man closest to the throne , murderous and oppressive or not . |
| 11 | Both of them were professionals , the only difference being that Trent was on the side of the law . |
| 12 | We were on the green for five shots , and Mr Lu was on the side of the green for two . |
| 13 | With various motives — from the fear that the worst excesses of Thatcherism were making the existing social order less stable , to the belief that God was on the side of oppressed people seeking justice — its leaders spoke out against particularly inhumane State policies . |
| 14 | We vote Labour because it 's our party , it 's on our side , as it was on the side of our forefathers . |
| 15 | Perhaps after all , some writers were suggesting , Hollywood was on the side of life . |
| 16 | Whereas the populists had been haunted by the race against time , against the break-up of the commune and the growth of the bourgeoisie , history was on the side of the proletariat . |
| 17 | Like his parents , he was on the side of law and order , stability and discipline . |
| 18 | When Wordsworth confessed in a letter of 1794 that " I am of that odious class of men called democrats " , what he was indicating was not so much that he was a supporter of a wider parliamentary franchise as that he was on the side of the people and that he was a social and political egalitarian , though not necessarily also an economic one : " … my heart was all/Given to the people , and my love was theirs " , recalled the poet in The Prelude ( 1805 , Book IX , II . |
| 19 | From now on time was on the side of the anti-coalitionists , for the approach of another election would eventually reopen the argument to their advantage . |
| 20 | She had a computer actually on the it was on the side of a surveying instrument , so she was probably working out how far down she 'd actually dug by looking through the sights and reading the numbers and then she was entering up the numbers on the computer . |
| 21 | She was on the side altogether of the newly arrived Jewish community . |
| 22 | ‘ It does n't show much sign of injury , ’ he said , ‘ but as it was on the side of the road I think it 's safe to assume it 's just one more traffic casualty . ’ |
| 23 | The devil of it was the vehicle was a left-hand drive , so that I was on the side that would go over the edge first . |
| 24 | Folk prejudice was on the side of the naturalists rather than of the philosophers . |
| 25 | In any case the resolution of the party conference of 1943 gave Hugh Dalton , who was on the side of the ‘ anti-Germans ’ , and was chairman of the party 's International Committee , the opportunity to draft a statement on the ‘ International Post-war Settlement ’ emphasising German responsibility for the war and the need for her to pay reparations to the Allies . |
| 26 | Jan did you lift the money that was on the side here ? |
| 27 | who was on the side of the people . |
| 28 | The grocery bill was on the side in the house |