Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] town of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tata Elxsi , based in the electronics boom town of Bangalore , Karnataka , is already manufacturing compute servers using technology from Silicon Graphics . |
| 2 | Author D H LAWRENCE was born and raised in a tiny Victorian terrace in the Nottinghamshire mining town of Eastwood . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Resorts : star spotters head for Aspen , Colorado , which has all grades of skiing — at a price ; Vail is smart too ; neighbouring Copper Mountain and Breckenridge are less awesomely large and more youth oriented ; experts on and off the piste love Jackson Hole , Wyoming ; Utah 's powder paradises are Park City , Snowbird and Alta , with Robert Redford 's Sundance as a family alternative ; mogul maniacs bash the hell out of their knees in Taos , New Mexico and the old silver mining town of Telluride . |
| 5 | It was on March 7 that a helicopter carrying Tanay , accompanied by his family and a number of Afghan generals , landed near the Pakistan border town of Peshawar . |
| 6 | It is said to be thinking of appointing a special envoy to the interim government set up in February in the Pakistan border town of Peshawar . |
| 7 | Grieco 's work is based on a detailed case study in the Northamptonshire steel town of Corby , and smaller studies of women in the fisheries industry in Aberdeen and of people migrating from the East End of London to live and work in the new town of Basildon , on London 's outer fringes . |
| 8 | There were eight nominations for the post , but six withdrew before the voting , leaving a contest between Gorbachev and Temuraz Avaliani , municipal party first secretary in the Kuzbass mining town of Kiselevsk . |
| 9 | The weekend 's spectacular was held at a surprise but successful venue , a specially-converted showjumping arena in the tiny Co Cork market town of Millstreet . |
| 10 | The ninth Central American summit was held in the Costa Rican town of Puntarenas on Dec. 15-17 , attended by the Presidents of Guatemala , Honduras , Nicaragua , El Salvador and Costa Rica , with the President of Panama attending as an observer . |
| 11 | The death toll from an army offensive launched on Saturday rose to more than 60 as the federal forces pounded targets from the Adriatic port of Dubrovnik to the besieged Danube river town of Vukovar . |
| 12 | The caves and rock shelters of the Klasies River Mouth , for those without an atlas to hand , are about 100 kilometres west as the crow flies from the Eastern Cape Province town of Port Elizabeth in South Africa . |
| 13 | Nearly 50,000 striking mineworkers from the Black Sea town of Zonguldak , who had begun in early January a protest march on foot to Ankara , called off the march on Jan. 9 in response to a call from Semsi Denizer , leader of the largest miners union , Maden-Is . |
| 14 | On June 25 the Foreign Ministry announced that the USA would withdraw its military personnel from a joint US-Turkish base near the Black Sea town of Sinop by the end of 1993 . |
| 15 | A Vietnamese couple who had to leave their country and fled to the North Yorkshire market town of Kirkbymoorside 14 years ago , are returning to it to open a Chinese takeaway . |
| 16 | Pleas that the character of the North Yorkshire market town of Pickering should not be spoiled by takeaway food shops have been made by town councillors who rejected schemes to convert a dry cleaners into a kebab house and for a pizza takeaway at a music shop . |
| 17 | If you want to see where probably the most significant event in English history occurred , visit the picturesque East Sussex town of Battle . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Individual photographers as well as associates of professional photographers are invited to submit papers to be presented at EUROFOTO 92 International Convention 31st October to 4th November 1992 to be held in the Peak District town of Buxton . |
| 21 | Individual photographers as well as associations of professional photographers are invited to submit papers to be presented at EUROFOTO 92 International Convention 31st October to 4th November 1992. to be held in the Peak District town of Buxton . |
| 22 | Qassam shot dead an Israeli soldier near the West Bank town of Hebron on Dec. 13 . |
| 23 | According to Israeli media reports a group of Jordanian security police crossed into Israel near the West Bank town of Jericho on Nov. 8 in an attempt to " perpetrate an attack " . |
| 24 | Arafat has gambled his reputation on a plan for interim Palestinian self-rule in the Israeli-occupied territories , starting with an early Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho . |
| 25 | Palestinian sources said two Arabs from the West Bank town of Jenin had surrendered . |
| 26 | Another settlement was opened at Talmon , south of the West Bank town of Ramallah , on April 23 . |
| 27 | Consul-General Ivan Callan , who visited the occupied West Bank town of Nablus , said a woman there told him she saw Nidal al-Habash , 21 , shot after he raised his hands and then shot three more times on the ground . |
| 28 | Two elderly Palestinians were shot dead on Nov. 6 near the West Bank town of Nablus in an apparent act of revenge for Kahane 's assassination . |
| 29 | One Palestinian was killed during a gun battle with Israeli troops on Jan. 4 near the West Bank town of Jenin . |
| 30 | Israeli security forces launched a major search and arrest operation in the West Bank town of Jenin on March 11-12 . |