Example sentences of "[art] oasis of [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Aug. 4 and 5 , in the week before UN staff were due to arrive in the territory to start preparing the January 1992 UN-supervised referendum [ see p. 38169 ] , Moroccan aircraft strafed the oasis of Tfariti in the north-east , near the Mauritanian border , while Polisario Front guerrillas claimed to have shot down a Moroccan aircraft . |
| 2 | On our way to the oasis of Bahriyah in the western desert I had a misadventure with my hat . |
| 3 | An oasis of calm in the centre of Leeds , at the point where all motorway and rail links converge on the city . |
| 4 | This soft green womb formed an oasis of peace in the chaotic tumble that was Fashion Avenue . |
| 5 | I fetched more glasses and dealt some of them to the Lorrimores who were an oasis of silence in the chattering mob and paid me absolutely no attention : and from then on I felt I had indeed chosen the right role and could sustain it indefinitely . |
| 6 | An oasis of tranquillity in the Gulf of Capo Carbonara , the Capo Boi stands in lavish , well-kept gardens beside a crescent of silvery sand . |
| 7 | The haulage yard near Ramsey was large and run-down , and it was n't long before Ken 's wife , Betty , was making an oasis of beauty in the flat fieldscape . |