Example sentences of "was on [art] outskirts " in BNC.

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1 The dental surgery where his Mum worked was on the outskirts of Thirkett .
2 The Red Lion was on the outskirts of town , in ‘ the country ’ — if so it could be called — where fields showed coyly between pre-war semis , sprouting electricity sub-stations and pylons , drive-in garden centres and the odd cow or two .
3 Lewis 's father 's parish was on the outskirts of Manchester and the vicarage was Victorian-Byzantine-Gothic , soot-blackened yellow bricks with the pseudo-Romanesque windows picked out in red bricks .
4 The technical college was on the outskirts of town , miles away from the cinema .
5 It was on the outskirts of the village and belonged to an elderly , childless couple .
6 That evening I did not see anything of Fontanellato because our new home was on the outskirts of the village and we drove straight there .
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