Example sentences of "bridge over [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In Rome there were originally 11 bridges over the Tiber ; nearly all of these have been modernised or replaced .
2 Do n't miss the Ponte Vecchio — a whole street of gold and jewellery shops perched along one of the bridges over the river — or the Duomo , one of the loveliest cathedrals you 'll ever see .
3 During their retreat , the Germans had added to the destruction by blowing up all ten of the bridges over the river : where these had been , the riverbed was partially blocked by great piles of masonry .
4 The station featured in a number of important historical events , such as the 1,000 bomber raid on Cologne , and Operation Market ( the use of airborne troops to take the bridges over the Meuse , Waal and Rhine ) .
5 If that promise had been promptly enforced — by putting a guard on the bridges over the Drina and Sava rivers , with aircraft to watch the roads that lead to the bridges — the size of the intervening soldiers ' task would have been sharply reduced .
6 First August — a very welcome trip with the driver of the jeep to the bridges over the Orne .
7 The great Chertsey Road had been in construction for some while as it involved the building of three new bridges over the River Thames at Chiswick , Richmond and Twickenham , but it was completed in 1933 , and the entire achievement was formally opened by Edward , Prince of Wales , who drove along the route , cutting ribbons at each of the three bridges .
8 From here they hoped to command the bridges over the River Lys while the Cavalry Corps , under Major-General Sir Edmund Allenby , came up on their left ; they could then , so they assumed , take the Germans in their right flank .
9 Fairey Battle squadrons went in to attack bridges over the canal at Maastricht .
10 There were two bridges over the R. Dovey ; I do not know which was the one whose state of disrepair forced the closure .
11 Because the Germans had blown the bridges over the Po , there were only temporary bridges with long queues of vehicles waiting to cross them .
12 Navan consisted of an attractive brick-and-tile shopping street , with a four-pronged C. of I. church that nobody used and a bridge over a river .
13 It is now in a ruinous condition but has the distinction of being the oldest existing railway bridge over a river in the world .
14 PLANNERS bungled when they designed a new bridge over a railway line — without leaving enough room for trains to pass underneath .
15 Twenty years ago I walked along it , half hoping to find a lost domain , and when I had crossed the small brick bridge over a stream I suddenly saw Wood Dalling Hall sailing like some proud ship above hawthorn hedges and ancient meadows , as beautiful and as Norfolk as could be .
16 Only a rutted bridle track , where orchids still grow , led to it by way of a dilapidated wooden bridge over a stream ; the oak avenue which once lined the way gradually fell .
17 I understand that a bridge over a stream on this footpath and also a gate are in a very poor state of repair .
18 The Company had to contribute £3,000 ( and no more ) towards the cost of rebuilding and widening Goat House Bridge in South Norwood and the bridge over the road near Selby Road ; although both were on Tramway No. 20 , within the Borough of Croydon and claimed by the Corporation .
19 In its heyday , the company had filled its own site with slag and so had built a bridge over the road and railway so it could shunt more slag into the neighbouring field .
20 Oh so we follow the path and do n't go over that bridge over the road ?
21 One has only to stand on the bridge over the Trannon at Trefeglwys and look upstream to see the stable narrow river coursing elegantly between its magnificent borders of ash and sycamore , and compare this with the immediate downstream reach , which wanders amidst a waste of gravel .
22 The bridge over the Bann was an important crossing-point .
23 Karl tucked Erika 's arm under his as they crossed the bridge over the green , splintered ice of the Spree which formed a chill moat around the great museums , by the great dome of the Protestant Cathedral , and on to the broad stretch of Unter den Linden .
24 Shortly after ‘ Cader Idris ’ , Wilson painted the ‘ Great Bridge over the Taaffe ’ ; the etchings made from this were published in 1766 .
25 Sheltered by the promontory of Gabicce , Cattolica is linked to Gabicce by a bridge over the Tavollo river .
26 At Stockton on Forest Stockton main bridge over the A sixty four is closed for resurfacing work through to six o'clock on Monday morning .
27 Georgina arranged for the wooden bridge over the lake to be replaced with the stone bridge of classical design , by Wyatt , who also had designed the wings of the Palladian Villa .
28 In any event , it is certainly the oldest bridge over the Derwent .
29 I picked up my pack , slung it over my shoulder and crossed the little bridge over the burn .
30 Could there have been at sometime a mill in that most attractive valley which runs northeast from the bridge over the burn near Lyrabus ?
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