Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [is] near the " in BNC.

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1 The leg must be in control and in the correct position so that the spur is near the horses side and not constantly niggling and annoying .
2 The village is near the formerly secret city of Chelyabinsk-65 in the Urals , centre for the manufacture of weapons-grade plutonium since the 1940s ; dumping of radioactive waste in the River Tyecha , which flows through Muslyumovo , led to the contamination .
3 The site is near the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Vallés Technological Park and close to two large centres for micro-electronics and material sciences .
4 The site 's near the main roads to most of the East Midlands industrial centres and will be the country 's biggest Channel Tunnel terminal .
5 The church is near the Central Market and so , with our microphones , shoppers could hear our demands and many came up to show their support .
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