Example sentences of "[art] isle of [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such changes can be seen off the Kent coast with the cementing of the Isle of Thanet to the mainland and the silting up of the Wantsum Channel in post-Roman times . |
| 2 | Tunnel linings are manufactured at a specially constructed and highly automated plant on the Isle of Grain in the Thames Estuary and transported by train to Shakespeare Cliff using a branch line connected to the nearby Dover-Folkestone railway . |
| 3 | Thurot 's first attempt to land in Ireland , near Londonderry , was a failure and one of his ships became separated and never rejoined him , leaving four to turn up next on the Isle of Islay off the coast of Argyll in western Scotland , where , with a courtesy rare among invaders , he paid for the provisions he needed . |
| 4 | No doubt he had the active help and encouragement of the Druids , who had been forced to abandon their sacred groves in south-eastern Britain and settled on the Isle of Anglesey off the coast of north Wales . |
| 5 | Ruth began to tell him her dream of Fand , the Drowned Forest , and the Isle of Fincara under the sea . |
| 6 | The first meeting of its Advisory Committee , from 29 September to 3 October 1980 , was therefore held at Uig , on the Isle of Lewis in the Western Isles . |
| 7 | After an eventful journey to Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides , off the north-west coast of Scotland , he was joined by his younger brother , aged around 23 , James Keith , who had travelled through France to Paris like a military pied Piper , collecting Jacobites as he went , before embarking on a little 25-ton ship at Le Havre to sail round the west coast of Ireland . |
| 8 | I was born , as were both my parents and their parents before them ( and so on ) on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides . |
| 9 | You then catch up with the field on the Isle of Dogs at the 17.5 mile-mark . |
| 10 | The remainder of the seedlings have been taken to good garden homes as far apart as Tresco on the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Bute in the north . |
| 11 | A number of boards have been rescued trying to make the long sail to the Isle of Wight off the British coast , which , on a clear day , appears far closer than it actually is . |
| 12 | George Underwood : ‘ I do n't know what year it was — I think it was the year when Tom Hark was No.1 ( 1958 Ed. ) — but we went to the Isle of Wight with the 18th Bromley Scouts ( we were in the Cubs then ) . |
| 13 | This was no more evident than on the Isle of Wight at the end of 1989 , which seemed to be going backwards despite getting new stock . |
| 14 | At least since the early 1960s , the British countryside , from the Isle of Wight to the Scottish Highlands , has been host to what we Forteans call ABCs ( Alien Big Cats ) . |
| 15 | An encouraging note mentioned in Lord Ross 's speech was the recent reconnection of the Isle of Wight by the preservation society with the BR line . |
| 16 | Sir , — I read the article in the October issue , When growth and stability turned to disaster ( see p 26 ) , with a good deal of interest having worked with a professional firm in the Isle of Wight in the fifties , and knowing something of the type of clientele referred to . |
| 17 | Tory MP for Gosport , Hants , Peter Viggers , who nearly drowned yesterday when he fell overboard into The Solent near The Needles while competing in the Isle of Wight Round the Island yacht race . |
| 18 | Visiting the Isle of Man for the RCM in November 1940 , William Simpson was impressed with the efforts being made to give youngsters an education , though he was anxious that an ‘ English ’ influence should be maintained . |
| 19 | Other Capital House representatives from the UK and Jersey flew to the Isle of Man for the reception and afterwards attended a staff dinner . |
| 20 | The men on board the ‘ Firefly , ’ a 25-foot catamaran , had set off from the Isle of Man on the return leg of the race when part of the vessel flooded . |
| 21 | The men aboard Firefly , a 25ft catamaran , had set off from the Isle of Man on the return leg of the race when part of the vessel flooded . |
| 22 | Such an act may well have provoked strong reaction in both ecclesiastical and lay circles , and Osred , exiled son of Alhred , was tempted back the following year from exile on the Isle of Man by the oaths of certain Northumbrian nobles ; but his supporters then deserted him and he was captured by King Aethelred and killed at Aynburg on 14 September 792 . |
| 23 | The Isle of Man in the Irish Sea and the Channel Islands between Great Britain and France are largely self-governing ; they are not part of the United Kingdom . |
| 24 | Further west lies Chesil Bank — a spectacular 18 mile pebble beach which joins the Isle of Portland to the mainland . |
| 25 | The West Dorset stretch runs from the fossil-encrusted cliffs of Charmouth to the 618ft high sandstone headland known as Golden Cap and on to Chesil Bank — a spectacular 18 mile pebble beach which joins the Isle of Portland to the mainland . |
| 26 | In the British Isles a fine example of a tombolo is provided by Chesil Beach , a 30 km long ( 18 miles ) ridge connecting the Isle of Portland to the mainland ( Fig. 8.28 ) . |
| 27 | At Shiel Bridge , at the head of Loch Duich , the road climbs west up into Ratagan Forest and up through Glen More , emerging out onto a short Jack-and-the-Beanstalk plateau , and then hard and drearily down to Glenelg from whose shore the Isle of Skye across the Sound of Sleat may almost be reached by fingertip . |
| 28 | Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty . |