Example sentences of "[noun] from the town " in BNC.
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| 1 | The choice of his successor was not so easy , for this time there were two candidates from the town — Daniel Leech , who on 1st July |
| 2 | The Louth Navigation runs north-east from the town and was opened in 1770 to ease the area 's transport problems caused by bad roads . |
| 3 | ‘ I will now beg leave to make some observations on the distance of the Veterinary College from the Town — first — because the Society has no rival to dread in an establishment of this nature — secondly — whether the Infirmary is situated a Mile further or nearer it will not prevent people of sense from sending their Horses there — thirdly — the resident pupils being distant from places of dissipation , it will protect their morals and they will employ their time in study . |
| 4 | The story that the survivors from the town itself told ( the number varies in different accounts , between two and four ) confirms this interpretation . |
| 5 | ‘ As you see , I spend all my time with my glasses , but apart from me there 's the coastguard who does his patrol every morning , there are two gentlemen from the town who never miss walking out here for their morning constitutional and on Saturdays , there 's the children , off from school … |
| 6 | And proof that an informant had indeed reached Edward from the town was provided by the fact that the emissaries now demanded that the required hostage should be none other than Seton 's own son , a young man whom he had brought with him to Berwick on his first military venture , unfortunate a start as this had turned out to be . |
| 7 | She liked the nights in the country better ; the mixed smells of the town contained more human corruption : the health of animal dung 's pungency was missing in the ammoniac whiffs from the town culvert , and the touch of the air was never quite as lively as in the yard . |
| 8 | Between the A5025 and B5111 leading south from the town is Parys Mountain , where the most spectacular remains of copper mines in Britain can be seen . |
| 9 | This makes the identification of basic texts very important — and the enlistment of expert help from the town or county hall most desirable |
| 10 | The legislation followed a 32-day march of 700 indigenous Indians from the town of Trinidad in the Beni department , who walked 600 km to the capital , La Paz . |
| 11 | However , there was one big kolkhoz consisting of 150 households only 20 versts from Roslavl' that was said to be too well satisfied with itself , and so did not welcome visits from the town . |
| 12 | It had two main effects , the first of which was beneficial , in that the School gained a certain measure of independence from the Town Council , for various other public bodies were invited to nominate Governors . |
| 13 | Group 1 was to land at Hollevik on the island 's south shore , to clear a known defence point and villages a mile to a mile and a half from the town of South Vaagsö , and then move in support of Group 2 , which was to land just south of the town and capture it . |
| 14 | Yesterday , she met Middlesbrough Mayor Frank Platt , who presented her with souvenirs from the town to give to her hosts in Spain . |
| 15 | A large number of tradesmen and small merchants served the area 's needs from the town . |
| 16 | ( Since the income of the infirmary included contributions from the town as well as rural parishes , this would appear to be an early example of a circular movement of funds with which those acquainted with today 's public services may be familiar . ) |
| 17 | The first he knows that something is up is when he hears a great cry of anguish from the town . |
| 18 | Tullivers , as it was called , had been the home of old Admiral Josiah Trigg and his sister Lucy for almost thirty years , and when he died , suddenly one hot afternoon , after taking the sharp hill from the town at a spanking pace , his sister continued to muddle along in a vague , amiable daze for another eighteen months before succumbing to bronchitis . |
| 19 | I was told that there were winter sledge tracks from the town to the Sea of Okhotsk , to Vilyuisk , the Kolyma river and to Irkutsk , some 1,200 miles away . |
| 20 | But the others that was getting a job from the town , |
| 21 | As Iraq moved through the 1970s the Baath regime became well settled in power , with the gradual emergence in key positions of a number of individuals from the town of Tikrit on the Tigris , north of Baghdad . |
| 22 | Those attending represented Honda , Mitsubishi Motors , Fuji Heavy Industries , TI Japan and many other companies and institutions who made KITEC possible including the Japan Development Bank and local officials from the town of Kitsuregawa . |
| 23 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |
| 24 | The line terminated at the ‘ Grapes ’ public house in Benhill Street , Sutton , at right angles to the High Street and some little distance from the town centre . |
| 25 | The Swiss Technorama is some distance from the town centre , but regular buses take you there . |
| 26 | PC Knight also has the practical benefit of an office in a location , some distance from the town 's police station . |
| 27 | It stands on the west bank of the River Swale , half a mile from the town centre . |
| 28 | In the violent argument which followed , Coleridge was prevented from running at his brother with a knife by the return of their mother , and then fled from the house , still in an ‘ agony of passion ’ , stopping only when he reached a hill overlooking the River Otter a mile from the town . |
| 29 | There are regular canal pubs and boatyards and if you moor up near a town you will usually find yourself half a mile to a mile from the town centre . |
| 30 | It is situated on Sorrento 's busy main street , half a mile from the town centre . |