Example sentences of "[noun] town of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A computermail database network has even been set up around the country for fans to debate the killer of Laura Palmer , the lovely blonde homecoming queen whose body mysteriously washes onto a river bank near a lumbermill in the fictional Pacific northwest town of Twin Peaks . |
| 2 | Three years ago the serene Tokyo dormitory town of Hanna was shaken by a series of grisly crimes . |
| 3 | The son of a furniture and domestic appliance merchant , Charles Garrett was born on 1 April 1932 in the small Texas town of Lufkin . |
| 4 | Five miles [ 8 km ] away by sea , but nearly twice as far by road , lay the small fishing town of Teignmouth , consisting of about 40 houses , clustered round a Norman church , and with a wide , gently sloping shingle beach , where today a broad promenade overlooks stretches of firm sand . |
| 5 | The picturesque harbour town of Castleton , the ancient capital , is also worth a visit with its fine nautical museum and castle . |
| 6 | The harbour town of Watchet has a history going back over a thousand years and is still an active trading port . |
| 7 | 400 yards from old harbour town of Watchet . |
| 8 | The unspoilt coastline with its pretty resorts such as the harbour town of Southwold , is only 25 miles away . |
| 9 | We flew with Corsican Gold to Bastia on the Mediterranean isle 's north-east coast before the short drive across country to the delightful harbour town of St Florent . |
| 10 | If they get the go-ahead , residents in the Northamptonshire town of Corby would face an influx of some 33 000 tonnes of domestic refuse every year . |
| 11 | Now , however , four days later , having escaped into Austria himself , Loehr was making a final attempt to surrender his forces to the British , saying that he was not longer able to control the movement northwards into Austria either of his own German troops , or of a huge column of Croat troops and civilian refugees advancing from Zagreb on the frontier town of Dravograd , south-east of Klagenfurt . |
| 12 | Troops loyal to Khartoum 's Islamic military regime are massing in the Ethiopian frontier town of Raad — with the consent and military support of the Ethiopian army — to attack Pakok , a small town just inside the Sudan border and less than 100 miles from the rebel base at Kapoeta . |
| 13 | During the following two months came the first reports of Baghdad 's retaliation at the frontier town of Halabjah , in PUK territory , where aircraft were said to have dropped bombs containing poison gas . |
| 14 | Mr Nemadzivhanani 's funeral oration came shortly after the capture of eight alleged APLA men on suspicion of having murdered Sandra Swanepoel , a farmer 's wife , near the Transvaal town of Tzaneen . |
| 15 | Police said a 17-year-old white schoolboy will appear before magistrates in the Western Transvaal town of Swartruggens in connection with the attack . |
| 16 | Tata Elxsi , based in the electronics boom town of Bangalore , Karnataka , is already manufacturing compute servers using technology from Silicon Graphics . |
| 17 | On his return to Britain he entered the congregational ministry in the bleak Lancashire mill town of Colne where he was deeply affected by the social and economic conditions which industrial society imposed upon his flock . |
| 18 | Yet up in the Pennines , in the little former mill town of Earby on the Yorkshire- Lancashire border , there is physical evidence that such imprudent behaviour can be rewarded . |
| 19 | The former mill town of Earby was chosen for proximity to Barnoldswick and its Rolls Royce aero-engine plant , which meant a pool of vital skills |
| 20 | The Cart passes through the old mill town of Paisley , one of the principal reasons for its sorry state , and I was astonished one morning to open my Scotsman and read the headline : ‘ Sea-trout return to the Cart ’ . |
| 21 | The modern-day exponent of the style was the late grandmaster , Yip Man , who was born in the Chinese mainland town of Fatshan , but who left when the Communist takeover was imminent to settle in Hong Kong . |
| 22 | Explore the famous Gold Rush town of Skagway , another of the Yukon 's mining centres . |
| 23 | SUCH of that European history which came to so terrible an ending in and around the battlefields of the Somme had its beginnings in the north Rhineland town of Aachen , Charlemagne 's capital , Aix-la-Chapelle ; because it was here , for more than half a millennium , that the Holy Roman Empire celebrated its mysteries . |
| 24 | A DEBT disaster has struck the stockbroker town of Guildford with 500 people owing a total of more than £20 million . |
| 25 | In the fictional New England town of Laurel , cosily decrepit and big on checked shirts and white fences , Iris ( Jane Fonda ) works at a big bakery piping icing onto assembly-line cakes . |
| 26 | For example , in the notably poverty-stricken textile town of Bailey in Yorkshire , the infant mortality rate was 172.5 per thousand , almost 1 in 6 of live births , compared with the national average of 127.3 . |
| 27 | In one of yesterday 's attack on blacks , a member of the white ultra-rightwing Wit Wolwe ( White Wolves ) shot a five-year-old black girl in the mining town of Nigel yesterday in what a Wit Wolwe spokesman said was a revenge attack for APLA 's killings of whites . |
| 28 | The situation was complicated by the actions of other armed groups , possibly dissident units of the Jungle Commando , including the seizure on Oct. 13 of the bauxite mining town of Moengo , 100 km east of Paramaribo , by a group calling itself the Union for Liberation and Democracy , and by the growing involvement of both rebel and Army-backed groups in the production and trafficking of illegal drugs , particularly cocaine . |
| 29 | Author D H LAWRENCE was born and raised in a tiny Victorian terrace in the Nottinghamshire mining town of Eastwood . |
| 30 | Musicon Concert , St Mary 's College , Durham SIRITSU is a group of four young musicians devoted to the performance of music of Spanish and Bolivian origin , particularly that associated with the silver mining town of Potosi . |