Example sentences of "to the city " in BNC.
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| 1 | TRIANGLE CINEMA is an arthouse venue situated close to the city centre at Aston University . |
| 2 | As he said of it much later , ‘ We who belong to the city have never left the Church . |
| 3 | The land , formerly the Burnside place estate , and a monetary gift of £10,000 , had been bequeathed to the city by one James McGill , a fur-trader and noted merchant . |
| 4 | Here was the Acropolis , which had dominated the city since the second millennium BC , and older than Judaic Jerusalem ( King David 's city ) by 500 years ; the Agora , the civic centre , formerly situated between the Acropolis and the main gate to the city ; both being crowned by the remains of the Parthenon , that geometric and architectural treasure widely copied — from Birmingham , England , to Nashville , Tennessee . |
| 5 | The redevelopment of Liverpool Street involved the closure of the much decayed ex-North London Railway terminus at Broad Street , and the diversion from 30 June of the remaining North London Line services to the City via the newly constructed Graham Road curve into Liverpool Street using dual-voltage Class 313 units . |
| 6 | And not so Svidrigailov and Raskolnikov , both hyperconscious men , and both ( as we shall see ) linked by their condition to the city which Peter the Great pondered over and then ordered to be built . |
| 7 | THE SHARE price of Lincat Group , maker of commercial catering equipment , is getting a boost after being toppled from its perch of 175p this summer when news of continuing problems at three subsidiaries filtered through to the City . |
| 8 | Hundreds of young people chanting ‘ Nazis get out ’ demonstrated in Dortmund , Dusseldorf and other cities in protest against the election of Republican members to the city councils . |
| 9 | The 500,000 acres of water authority land , much of it in national parks and areas of outstanding beauty , was ‘ a massive inducement ’ to the City to take over the industry . |
| 10 | YORK IS preparing to repel a band of gypsies who have been travelling to the city for centuries . |
| 11 | This book is set against the breakdown of the pattern in recent times , the next will concentrate on peasants who have moved to the city . |
| 12 | Why Australian Mutual Provident wants the Pearl , which is fighting the bid , is not entirely clear to the City . |
| 13 | FOURTEEN-year-old Manoel Jorge Santos had no idea of the perils awaiting him in Sao Paulo when he fled from a broken home and brawling stepfather , trudging 50 miles to the city 's cathedral square in search of a new life . |
| 14 | Like most large cities , it can no longer cope with the traffic that blocks the city centre almost all day and the Mayor of Paris , Jaques Chirac , presented a plan to the city fathers yesterday to restore the capital to its residents . |
| 15 | Financial markets had expected Mr Lawson to give a clear signal on when the pound will enter the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System in a speech to the City at the Mansion House next Thursday . |
| 16 | Our peasant is starting off today to Roslavl' , 55 miles away , in order to see her soldier son who has been away in the Civil War , and is passing with his peacetime unit by train tomorrow from Briansk further south to the city of Smolensk with an hour 's stop in Roslavl' . |
| 17 | About the age of 6 he wrote a book called ‘ Ways to the City Bright by the Rev. A. M. Ramsey ’ . |
| 18 | There are more moving images at Middleton , in south-east Leeds , where the world 's first commercial railway was opened to carry truckloads of coal from Middleton Colliery to the city 's mills . |
| 19 | Omi sat quietly crocheting , Erika conscientiously worked on her sightseeing list for the next morning , writing out appropriate comments from the official guide to the city , Herr Nordern , guilt-free , smoked and drank brandy and Frau Nordern sat by him , having a drink , too , wondering whether she might have a cigarette — but deciding not to , preferring to keep that secret to herself . |
| 20 | And of the proposed Mansion House Square project , he went on , ‘ It would be a tragedy if the character and skyline of our capital city were to be further ruined and St Paul 's dwarfed by yet another giant glass stump better suited to downtown Chicago than to the City of London . ’ |
| 21 | It became a matter for public debate , newspaper articles were written , television programmes made , and the London Evening Standard sponsored Simpson 's planning application to the City . |
| 22 | Sir John Riddell went back to the City , and was replaced by Major General Sir Christopher Airy , recently retired from commanding the Household Division , admirable qualifications for the job . |
| 23 | ‘ If it were based in London , which as Europe 's financial powerhouse would be a natural home for it , the benefits to the City would be enormous . |
| 24 | Twelve months on , the club have yet to do so , despite numerous requests to the City secretary John Westmancoat . |
| 25 | The plan calls for Berlin to be made a centre for international conferences and youth exchanges and for improving air traffic to the city . |
| 26 | He runs away to the city where he is taken in by The Old Lady . |
| 27 | ( Geoff Neil ) ; ‘ In Oslo , workmen install Britain 's annual gift to the city of a Christmas tree unaffected by acid rain . ’ |
| 28 | It is a dramatic change , and not one that recommends itself to the city 's residents . |
| 29 | City engineers have leaked to the press their previously private warnings to the city of hundreds of signs of hazardous corrosion on four big bridges that span the East river : the Brooklyn , Manhattan , Queensboro and Williamsburg bridges . |
| 30 | After barely moving for most of the 1980s , monthly rents on prime commercial properties in western Berlin suddenly leapt from DM28 at the end of 1989 to DM65 a year later , bubbling up on hopes — now dashed — that the Bundesbank would move to the city , and on speculation that it will eventually become Germany 's seat of government . |