Example sentences of "around the city " in BNC.
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| 31 | Needless to say , the course winds its way around the city , but nature lovers will enjoy the two crossings of the River Thames , over the Reading and Caversham bridges . |
| 32 | The ‘ I 'm free ’ catchphrase of limp-wristed Mr Humphreys and the double entendres of Mrs Slocombe echo around the city 's fashionable bars . |
| 33 | But in the aftermath of the bid , while suggestions that TI paid too much for Dowty were still flying around the City , the group won praise and respect from many analysts when it released a detailed account of the provisions it would be making in connection with the takeover — £87.1m in all , of which £41m represents asset write-offs and £46.1m additional expenditure that TI will have to incur . |
| 34 | GERALD Ratner 's dramatic resignation as boss of Britain 's biggest jewellers just four weeks before Christmas sent shock waves around the City last night . |
| 35 | Getting around the city on a sightseeing spree to the Tutankhamen Museum , the Sphinx monument or laden with bargains from the shops , is very cheap by taxi . |
| 36 | Thanks to the generosity of local travel company Regent Holidays UK Ltd we were able to advertise in Venue magazine and to have AA signs erected around the city to direct traffic to the Watershed Media Centre were the whole event took place . |
| 37 | The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs . |
| 38 | Other successfully completed restoration projects around the city are : the Episcopal Palace ; the interior restoration of St Paul 's Church ; the Carolus Borromeus Church ; the Plantin Moretus Museum ; the façades and pavilions of the Zoo ; the interior of the St Augustinus Church ; the Zuiderpershuis ; the City Festival Hall ; the Smidt van Gelder Museum ; and Royal Museum of Fine Arts ; the Grand Bazaar ; the Neo-classical Bourla Theatre ; and the magnificent 1905 Central Station . |
| 39 | This year there are not two , but three concurrent contemporary art fairs at different sites around the city . |
| 40 | Other churches around the city held their own prayer vigils , to which everyone was invited . |
| 41 | On May 2nd preachers squared off in pulpits around the city on the subjects of condoms and sex education . |
| 42 | The Albanians feel the CSCE has been hoodwinked , and believe that guns are being dug in around the city . |
| 43 | I left the motorway system east of the centre of Birmingham and , with my map of the area open beside me , headed into the grey and depressing urban blight that lies to the south of the city or , rather , that lies all around the city . |
| 44 | Within hours of the explosion , IMDEC was designing , printing and distributing leaflets around the city , calling for volunteers to help . |
| 45 | As Amsterdam is made up of a criss-crossed network of canals , one of the best ways to get around the city is by boat . |
| 46 | Amsterdam is such a lovely and compact city that if two or three days is all you have you will be able to get around the city and all the major sights without difficulty — but you will have gained only a glimpse of all the attractions on offer . |
| 47 | Summertime shows around the city |
| 48 | The beneficiaries of this movement were the new and expanded towns around the city — Bangor , Newtownards , Ballymena , Antrim , and Craigavon . |
| 49 | Of particular interest to our group was the airport 's flight and noise monitoring system ( FANMOS ) which seeks to reduce noise pollution in the main flight corridors over and around the city . |
| 50 | I said to a companion while we were wandering around the city . |
| 51 | The licensed dealer showed itself in its true colours , as one of the roughest , toughest sales teams in or around the City . |
| 52 | Perhaps you might even allow me to borrow one of your people as a guide around the city . |
| 53 | However , the influential Greater London Plan of 1944 , proposed by Abercrombie , advocated an enlarged green belt for London , mainly as a ‘ sanitary zone ’ around the city , to prevent further urban encroachment . |
| 54 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 55 | And the the time involved in driving over and then wandering around the city is . |
| 56 | Kuoni Travel offers a range of economy and medium-priced hotels in and around the city centre . |
| 57 | In the West Midlands , Birmingham 's area of deprivation extends in a boomerang-shaped district around the city from the north west in Handsworth to the east in Small Heath and to the south in Sparkbrook . |
| 58 | In late 1853 he moved to Paris , where he was engaged on bridges and embankments of the Seine , and on railways in and around the city . |
| 59 | A Green Belt around the city will remain an important planning policy . |
| 60 | The proposals for an Edinburgh City Bypass have been approved as part of the Regional Council 's Transport Policy , the intention being to provide a rapid and safe route around the city for traffic whose origin and destination lies outwith the City Boundary . |