Example sentences of "of the town " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tavern was a meeting place , usually in the centre of the town or village , where wine was normally served . |
| 2 | All steps in corridors were replaced by ramps so that now wheelchair users can gain access to any part of the Town Hall . |
| 3 | Next day and the day after that Mr Flemyng rode his horse along the slope south of the town , as though to exercise his dogs , and looked down at the site through an opera-glass , trying to make out whether the workmen were forming a mob . |
| 4 | At one time a fifth of the town was occupied by religious houses or mission centres . |
| 5 | Being adequately provided for , he was able to book himself into a downtown hotel which cost him three dollars per night , though he often failed to make it back to the hotel , finding the cosmopolitan and nocturnal life of the town there entirely to his liking : consecration dismantled ! |
| 6 | Perhaps I was in the wrong place , the wrong part of the town . |
| 7 | The wrong part of the town . |
| 8 | Yet in The Rake 's Progress de Valois found something new to say about the ladies of the town when she made their leader kick off her shoes , pull up her long yellow skirt and roll down her red stockings before bursting barefooted into a riotous dance on a great salver . |
| 9 | ‘ Our club ’ presumably overlaps while being smaller than ‘ the best circles ’ of this society , whereas the ‘ they ’ of ‘ the whole town ’ is sometimes , but only sometimes , the ‘ we ’ of ‘ our town ’ ; and ‘ our group ’ which springs out of ‘ my ’ special relationship with Stepan Verkhovensky and which gathers round Mrs Stavrogin , Nicholas 's mother and Stepan 's patroness , is different again and again overlapping ; and the ‘ all ’ buried inside the phrase ‘ our ‘ old man ’ — as we all used to call Stepan Trofimovich among ourselves ’ is probably though not certainly synonymous with this ‘ group ’ ; while Dostoevsky delights in sly collective evocations like ‘ civic grief ’ and in parcellings-out like ‘ the poorest expectant mothers of the town ’ , and in fouling the whole snobbish provincial nest with such carefully calculated absurdities as ‘ almost the whole town , that is of course the entire top stratum of our society ’ . |
| 10 | Those ‘ poorest expectant mothers of the town ’ are the objects of Mrs Stavrogin 's competitive philanthropy . |
| 11 | An extraordinary number of subscribers ad donors had turned up , all the select society of the town ; but even the most unselect were admitted , provided they brought the cash . |
| 12 | At the siege of Harfleur , it is Henry 's words that lead directly to the surrender of the town . |
| 13 | But David Hall , director of the Town and Country Planning Association , described the decision as an abdication of Mr Patten 's responsibilities as the minister also responsible for housing and regional planning . |
| 14 | Hucknall will not be at full strength , though , when they visit Pickering in Yorkshire in the FA Vase tomorrow — and closer scrutiny of their Talk of the Town explains why . |
| 15 | Finding out about an application : Under section 28 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 the planning authority — usually the local council — is supposed to advertise certain planning applications in the local newspaper . |
| 16 | First , they have to sell their present house , a two-bedroom cottage in the centre of the town . |
| 17 | Many have been councillors , schooled in the hard practicalities of the town hall . |
| 18 | Planning Ward v Secretary of State for the Environment ; CA ( Woolf , Nicholls , Staughton LJJ ) ; 25 Sept 1989 A private garden was capable of being an ‘ open space ’ and something that should be taken into account when deciding whether a development proposed to be carried out in a conservation area would preserve or enhance the area within s 277 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 , as substituted , and of Circular No 8 of 1987 issued by the Secretary of State . |
| 19 | In Leipzig small groups of protesters again gathered yesterday outside the Nikolaikirche in the centre of the town , where water-cannon were used against demonstrators on Saturday night . |
| 20 | When she emerged , Rosa Luxemburg Platz was full of police , with lorries and water-cannon , who cordoned off the broad cobbled street that runs out of the town centre to the church . |
| 21 | OPTIMISM and patience are the basic requisites of the town gardener , food and water those of the garden . |
| 22 | The impact of tourism stops pretty soon outside the medieval walls of the town , and the dwellings are like those of any impoverished fishing village in Cornwall , Sicily or Provence : low , simple buildings containing no more than the most primitive necessities , but opening on to the turquoise bay , with the Venetian walls on the western side and red cliffs to the east . |
| 23 | Jock 's voice was raised as he continued to describe the events over the past five days : — The attack on the Casino at Ouistreham and the eventual capture of the town by the British and French of No. 4 Commando . |
| 24 | The agitation section of the town 's Communist Party committee decided , or rather passed on a directive probably originating in Moscow , that the Paris Commune of 1871 should be celebrated on 18 March . |
| 25 | At a meeting of the commissars of the Roslavl' garrison the military commander of the town hospital admitted that the political cell in his institution did not really exist , although there were occasional discussions of newspaper articles . |
| 26 | During the war and the revolution many old criminal families , living on the outskirts of the town or in bandit villages , left their influence behind even after they had been broken up . |
| 27 | The proposals would take the bypass to the south of the town , which would involve a major new road and two river crossings of the River Usk . |
| 28 | Within easy reach of the town centre and on a frequent bus route , Wexford House stands in a large garden which will afford a pleasant area for future residents . |
| 29 | Within each reach of the town centre and on a frequent bus route , Wexford House stands in a large garden which will afford a pleasant area for future residents . |
| 30 | He toured the villages of Cambridgeshire speaking on behalf of the candidates , and spoke in several halls of the town . |