Example sentences of "[art] countryside around " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understood how much Braque had absorbed the countryside around him . |
| 2 | The deputy chairman of the council of ministers , Boris Shcherbina , forbade evacuation of the countryside around Chernobyl until a government commission had arrived from Moscow . |
| 3 | A quiet , unassuming man , Geoffrey Thomas indulged a great fondness for nature and wildlife in the countryside around his house in Kent , and read so voraciously that his wife feared they might have to move house to gain access to a new public library . |
| 4 | Alight at any of our picturesque stations and explore the countryside around them . |
| 5 | It would no doubt have been quite attractive in fine weather , and the same applied to the countryside around the hotel , an imposing pile by Nightmare Abbey out of a Scotch baronial shooting lodge . |
| 6 | From him , I heard of leys for the first time , and learned that he had found alignments of tree clumps in the countryside around his home . |
| 7 | The composer , Edward Elgar , for example , needed the solitary paths of the countryside around the Malvern Hills and often spoke of hearing songs and sounds not heard by others . |
| 8 | He had to compensate for the waste of a visit with his encounters , and with the countryside around the town , the haystacks , the brown earth speckled with whitish spots where the mark showed , so unlike the black earth of Holland . |
| 9 | In other words , agricultural produce coming into Mallia was not all destined for the temple : some at least was going into private houses , presumably town houses belonging to the owners of estates in the countryside around Mallia . |
| 10 | The Northern air , in the countryside around Leeds , seemed to revive him and , in the company of his new family , he grew to love the area . |
| 11 | 19 Discover the countryside around Kettlewell in the Yorkshire Dales . |
| 12 | My other concern is that no strategy can be competent without looking at the urban fringe — the countryside around the City , and by the nature of the Green Belt this includes land in Midlothian and East Lothian . |
| 13 | One of these was my own brother who led the resistance in the countryside around Nantes . ’ |
| 14 | Violent fighting between members of the Arab Sabaha tribe and the African Shiluk broke out in the countryside around Kosti , some 250 km south of Khartoum ( the capital ) , at the end of December . |
| 15 | Sturt had already considerable experience of the countryside around Adelaide , having in the previous year explored much of the land to the south of the Murray River , and crossed the Mount Lofty range on his overland expedition from Sydney to Adelaide . |
| 16 | Much of the time between Gould 's arrival in Adelaide and the departure of Sturt 's expedition was spent with Sturt and his family , or Governor Gawler , whose wife was a friend of Lear 's , and in exploring the countryside around the city . |
| 17 | I realize , now that I think about it , that even our weekend walks in the countryside around London , with their characteristic mixture of dullness and reassurance , are going to take quite a lot of analysis . |
| 18 | She says here in Stanton Harcourt there 's been gravel working for more than 30 yearsand that means lorries , dust , noise and a general loss of amenity … so for a very long time people face the loss of the countryside around them . |
| 19 | He says the county council has been trying to find out for 6 years about the planning of the east-west route because we were very worried about the effect it would have on Oxford and the countryside around Oxford . |
| 20 | Other equally emotional involved works include a handful of landscapes of the countryside around Guisborough itself . |
| 21 | Here he presents large open watercolours and thickly buttered palette knife studies of the countryside around the family seat at Bemersyde , near Melrose , and of his beloved Venice . |
| 22 | Trimdon children are making a joint effort to improve wildlife in the countryside around their schools . |