Example sentences of "around the [adj] town [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ambush came after a week of heavy army activity in the north , especially around the government-controlled town of Vavuniya , 100 km south of Jaffna . |
| 2 | Additionally it has been recognized that the largest concentrations of first-class villas often clustered around the small towns in preference to major towns or cities . |
| 3 | By the mid-1980s , about 45,000 people worked in electronics in Scotland , with a particularly high concentration in and around the new town of Glenrothes ( Fife ) . |
| 4 | Most of the resultant industry was concentrated around the new town of Middlesbrough , but in 1864 the Middleston Iron Company was founded . |
| 5 | The up-side was that two days of heavy snow made skiing conditions around the Christmas-card town of Kitzbuhel , in the Austrian Alps , nearer to perfect than any of us had dared hope in the middle of December . |
| 6 | The road up the west coast from Lagos to Lisbon , 150 miles away , takes you through a typically Portuguese mix of urban sprawl ( around the multi-fly-overed town of Sines , ) lovely countryside ( cork forests bordering a 30-stretch of beach between Sines and Tróia ) , and enchanting old towns ( such as Santiago do Cacém ) . |
| 7 | Shortly after , a similar deal was negotiated with a Canadian businessman , Joe Yanow , and ‘ Laura Ashley ’ shops were soon dotted around the major towns of Canada and Australia . |
| 8 | Fighting was reported in late November and early December around the eastern town of Tadjoura between government forces and rebels of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) . |
| 9 | Clashes which began in late November between rival factions of the southern rebel Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) caused numerous civilian casualties in and around the southern towns of Bor and Kongor ( north of Juba ) . |
| 10 | Only where industries used coal directly , like the forges of Sheffield , were towns yet blackened and the air poisoned ; and only where they produced ‘ waste ’ in great quantities , such as in coal-mining , glassworks and chemicals , was the landscape beginning to acquire that sterile covering of ‘ tips ’ , that were destined to go on piling up until they produced a mountain landscape in miniature ; until the vast range of coal-tips around the old town of Wigan , for example , could be sardonically nicknamed the Wigan Alps and be illustrated in later years under that name on picture postcards . |
| 11 | Some claimed that the operation had been a reprisal for losses suffered two days earlier by the army at the hands of guerrillas of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) , as fighting continued around the government-held towns of Tadjoura and Obock ; a five-day ceasefire , announced by the FRUD on Dec. 15 to allow for the deployment of French troops [ see p. 38565 ] , had collapsed the following day . |