Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [det] sides " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though 30,000 lives had been lost and massive amounts of matériel consumed on both sides , Madrid did not fall to the Nationalists . |
| 2 | Cars parked on both sides of the road made it almost impossible for buses to pass each other on a popular bus route . |
| 3 | A Truth Commission was established to investigate selected acts of violence committed by both sides since 1980 ‘ whose mark on society makes most urgent the public knowledge of the truth ’ . |
| 4 | Taking an example of recent years , the abolition of the Greater London Council where advertising and speeches made by both sides of the argument is merely the surface of the public relations work . |
| 5 | The tactics adopted by both sides produced stalemate . |
| 6 | The mayor appealed to both sides to spare the city 's Turkish-era centre as terrified residents prepared for a long night in cellar shelters . |
| 7 | The football played by both sides yesterday , was top class . |
| 8 | Ms Clark 's optimism was encouraging , but question time reminded booksellers once again how relentless was the onslaught on the schools market from all sides when a questioner raised the issue of Dorling Kindersley ‘ agents ’ selling in to schools . |
| 9 | A strip of electrician 's tape stuck round both sides of the base to make them waterproof and they 're ideal for bringing on any bulbs destined for the windowsill . |
| 10 | It was a ritual acknowledged by both sides . |
| 11 | The trumpets blew on both sides . |
| 12 | In November Moscow agreed on United Nations monitoring on both sides of the Afghan border . |
| 13 | After a lengthy silence , the report of the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht spoke ominously on 16 January 1943 about the ‘ heroically courageous defensive struggle ’ of German troops against an ‘ enemy attacking from all sides ’ . |
| 14 | The slaughter suffered by both sides may get worse . |
| 15 | Strategies in negotiation can be offensive or defensive and are likely to take account of previous strategies adopted by both sides . |
| 16 | Condemnation of the way in which the Social Work Department had handled the case came from all sides . |
| 17 | With the new Polish Government actively considering large-scale privatisation , much attention is beginning to focus on a proposal favoured by both sides of the political fence in Britain . |
| 18 | SEVEN STOPS NORTH-WEST of Baker Street on the Metropolitan Line , Pinner is the quintessence of a certain kind of Englishness , an embattled outpost of suburbia surrounded on all sides by the encroaching urban sprawl . |
| 19 | Before long England were benefitting from the first of a string of catches dropped by both sides , and their total of 263 was over a hundred more than it would have been had Boycott , Woolmer and Botham not had a second chance . |
| 20 | The Kirgiz-Kaisaks ( Kazakhs ) , roaming in areas claimed by both sides , were in an uncomfortable position and from time to time paid fealty to both , meantime raiding on their own behalf and fighting amongst themselves . |
| 21 | We should also recall that the nature of the war , sieges pursued by both sides and the defence of a long frontier stretching from Le Crotoy in the east to Mont-Saint-Michel in the west , dictated a kind of war in which heavy cavalry played relatively little part other than in defence . |
| 22 | The Naddle flocks of Herdwicks and Swaledales run on both sides of the lake . |
| 23 | But the result still adds spice to next month 's Dublin date and Republic manager , Jack Charlton , who made the trip to Tirana to spy on both sides , will have his work cut out spiking Northern Ireland 's challenge . |
| 24 | The blame attaches to both sides of industry . |
| 25 | Indeed , Falkenhayn never attempted to break through the enemy lines — so far the sole tactic attempted by both sides — but planned rather to bleed France white by attacking that which the French nation would not tolerate being taken . |
| 26 | But the play , because it wants its bread buttered on both sides , keeps its options open until the end on the issue of whether she is genuinely taken in by her husband 's lie or whether her insistence that the girl stay the weekend , her broody concern for the future of the fictitious baby , and marriage-broking on behalf of Julie are just ways of stoking up Jacques 's embarrassment . |
| 27 | However , if the broker fills an order left with him by his client or deals on a discretionary basis , he is as a matter of law dealing on both sides of the " client " contract ; he is agent for the client , in that he binds the client to the contract , and at the same time he is technically the client 's counterparty . |
| 28 | Short stories , pamphlets , and articles appeared on both sides of the Atlantic and her novel , The Magnetic North ( 1904 ) , was a best seller , and was compared to the work of Daniel Defoe [ q.v . ] . |
| 29 | Try to continue the pattern as long as possible and if you have to return to stocking stitch do make sure that the work matches on both sides of the neck . |
| 30 | Maybe their system 's organized differently , but fundamentally the problems are the same and that 's given our people the confidence that they needed because they 've been able to see that people everywhere , it 's not just them isolated in , in , you know , Tory Britain , who are facing these particular difficulties , but issues of privatization for example as the same in France and actually about to get much worse , er but , and , and I think that helped erm our colleagues from France who 've also got a perspective on their struggles and their battles we 've been able to support one another with information about companies working , multi-national companies working on both sides of the Channel . |