Example sentences of "the city " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sculptures in cities are a part of cultural history , and can be the symbols by which the cities are known or remembered . |
| 2 | Those under threat in the cities have not always been so lucky . |
| 3 | Vocational school pupils in the cities come mainly from the urban working class . |
| 4 | Over the last six years , the Cities and Media Forum has become an established part of the Festival and has played a substantial role in the debates about developing the media economies of regional cities in the UK . |
| 5 | The Cities and Media Forum is attended regularly by the growing band of media development agencies . |
| 6 | For the first week the FILMS FROM THE URBAN JUNGLE series echoes the city themes of the festival , from the Cities and Media conference to the presentation of Tavernier films which celebrate the city of Lyon , Tavernier 's birthplace , and Birmingham 's twin town . |
| 7 | In Canada it came to be known as ‘ The 10 Lost Years ’ , which were devastating for those on the prairies and very difficult for those in the cities . |
| 8 | There were great rabbis in the cities , but I was not part of that . |
| 9 | The authorities concerned would be in the cities — London Boroughs or Metropolitan Borough Councils — and , in the rest of the country , District Councils . |
| 10 | But the city that goes down , the civilization ‘ run by the few ’ which ‘ fell to the many ’ , is not Ilium but Richmond or Montgomery or Atlanta , any one of the cities of the Confederacy finally sacked by Grant or Sheridan or the specially hated Sherman , generals of the victorious Yankee North . |
| 11 | ‘ The government 's main preoccupation is getting supplies to the cities before winter , ’ he said . |
| 12 | This means that the cities of France are under-represented and there is a considerable right-wing majority , three-quarters in 1986 when the rest of France voted 52 per cent for the right . |
| 13 | ‘ We have got to do a great deal more about restrictions on motor vehicles and give the cities back to the people . |
| 14 | Yet only weeks ago he was saying that existing derelict land was needed for greening the cities , and providing amenities for citizens . |
| 15 | Beyond these lies an archipelago of small regional or city broadcasters which range from dubious one-studio enterprises in the Sicilian hinterland to smartly presented local stations in the cities . |
| 16 | Accompanied by his close friend the German geographer Hermann von Wissmann , he set out from the port of Mukalla and visited the cities of Shibam , Saywun and Tarim , closely studying the society and minutely describing the topography , geology , flora and fauna of the valley . |
| 17 | The environment debate showed conference representatives concerned about unsuitable housing development in the countryside , freeing derelict land in the cities , and litter . |
| 18 | Surface links between American airports and the cities they are supposed to serve are usually dire . |
| 19 | Like the population of all the cities of European Russia , it suffered a decline ( from 72,559 in 1917 to 56,826 in 1920 ) . |
| 20 | Given the disturbed local conditions , and keen memories of American , British , and other intervention in the Civil War , this suspicious approach was not entirely unwarranted , particularly with regard to the cities of the Middle Volga . |
| 21 | Another report from Rabkrin accused Tsentroevak , the Central Refugee Evacuation Commission , of behaving in a very complacent fashion over the number of migrants piling up in the cities of Samara , Penza and Voronezh . |
| 22 | Certainly from the spring of 1918 Lenin was almost obsessed by the need to get grain to the cities of the north-west , for it was their turn to starve at that time . |
| 23 | The cities and the regime survived this temporary threat , but the boomerang effect of the Famine on the countryside had more lasting influence . |
| 24 | Before 1914 they would have been mainly peasant-workers commuting twice a year to the cities , gentry and their numerous domestic servants moving from their estates to town , kustari with their wares for sale , government servants , and the military , etc . |
| 25 | A few words of Czech or Slovak learned beforehand will certainly be a great help and in the cities German is often understood . |
| 26 | He saw this society as increasingly menaced by industrialization which , particularly in the cities , where power was now centralized , was cutting off the population from its roots . |
| 27 | This meant that the cities which ultimately grew up within this rural society were of a different character from the surrounding countryside . |
| 28 | In India , dowry taking has long been forbidden by law but it persists strongly even in the cities . |
| 29 | In the Indian sub-continent the cities have colonised the villages and the rural communities have gradually been eroded until ( ideally for industrial capitalism ) nothing remains but a pool of reserve labour which can be drawn upon as and when it is needed . |
| 30 | The floating mill , moored to a bridge or pier in the cities , solved this problem , but in the country the miller had to moor in open stream and grain had to be conveyed to him by boat . |