Example sentences of "town of [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back at the town of Lourdes from the esplanade , you have an excellent view of its one historical monument : the fortress , set high on a rock above the river . |
| 2 | On a wet January afternoon in 1986 , Ian Paisley and James Molyneaux walked around the North Down seaside town of Bangor with the local MP and Speaker of the Assembly , James Kilfedder . |
| 3 | Fighting between the secessionist Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) and pro-government villages near the town of Arawa in the south of the island left five people dead , it was reported on Feb. 3 . |
| 4 | The Israeli Defence Ministry announced in mid-April that Bir Zeit University , near the town of Ramallah on the West Bank , would be allowed to reopen gradually . |
| 5 | The Monument to the Iron Duke overlooks the busy town of Wellington at the western end of the ridge , and there are small country houses and bird gardens to visit . |
| 6 | Throughout the talks , fighting had continued , centred on the town of Luena in the eastern province of Moxico , with both sides making claims and counter-claims . |
| 7 | One of the meals we all enjoyed most during our journeyings round the markets of France last summer was a lunch in the end-of-the-world little town of Salin-de-Giraud on the edge of the Camargue . |
| 8 | In the two weeks before the arrest of Sanchez , former contras had organized the occupation of police stations and churches and barricaded part of the road leading from the capital Managua to Rama , near the town of Bluefields on the Atlantic coast . |
| 9 | It happened in the seaside town of Worthing on the night of 9 October 1934 . |
| 10 | At the beginning of March it was reported that seven FARC guerrillas and three Brazilian soldiers had been killed in border clashes near the Brazilian town of Tabatinga in the Amazon region . |
| 11 | On May 17 , local leaders meeting with SNM representatives at the town of Burao in the north-east had given their support to the secession ; according to Le Monde of May 16 and 21 , SNM leaders favoured a federalist solution but had bowed to this grasssroots opinion . |
| 12 | " We can not close the report without mentioning the great satisfaction expressed by the Mayor and Corporation and Inhabitants of the Town of Stockport at the re-establishment of the School , and the high sense they entertained of the liberality and kindness of the Goldsmiths ' Company . " |
| 13 | Yet up in the Pennines , in the little former mill town of Earby on the Yorkshire- Lancashire border , there is physical evidence that such imprudent behaviour can be rewarded . |
| 14 | The son of a schoolmaster , James lived in he small town of Tunapuna near the capital , Port of Spain . |
| 15 | Hahnemann was born in 1755 in the pottery town of Meissen on the River Elbe in the Electorate of Saxony . |
| 16 | When Bashir Gemayel 's own baby daughter was killed in a car bomb attempt on his life in east Beirut , Suleiman Franjieh , who was now secluded in his home town of Zghorta under the protection of his Marada ( Giants ) militia , could scarcely suppress his satisfaction . |
| 17 | Five nights of serious rioting at a reception centre for asylum seekers in Lichtenhagen , a suburb of the town of Rostock on the Baltic , on Aug. 22-26 marked a resurgence of anti-foreigner violence in eastern Germany . |
| 18 | The legislation followed a 32-day march of 700 indigenous Indians from the town of Trinidad in the Beni department , who walked 600 km to the capital , La Paz . |
| 19 | The E. Walters clothing factories have been the second biggest employers in the north Herefordshire town of Kington for the past thirty years . |
| 20 | In 1493 a battle between the Croats under Ban Mirko Derenčin and a force of 8,000 Turkish cavalry occurred near the town of Udbina in the Lika region . |
| 21 | But it appears that following the fall of the town of Jajce to the Serbs peace has been restored . |
| 22 | TROOPS were reported to be patrolling the streets of the Romanian capital , Bucharest , yesterday as evidence mounted of a massacre in the town of Timisoara at the weekend and East and West moved to denounce the brutal clampdown by the regime 's security forces . |
| 23 | The strongest evidence yet emerged yesterday about the massacre in the north western town of Timisoara at the weekend . |
| 24 | At the Dixie Dude Ranch near the town of Bandera in the Texas hill country it was clear that my arrival was to be the excuse for a night out . |
| 25 | An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers of two Acts … for repairing and widening several roads leading to , through , and from the town of Frome in the County of Somerset . |
| 26 | Speculation that its soldiers would attack the town of Pailin on the Thai border has died down , as it became clear that to hold Pailin would be more of a liability than an asset . |
| 27 | Newspapers received phone calls to the effect that the shooting was the work of the left-wing Dev-Sol group , which also claimed responsibility for killing a policeman in the southern town of Adana on the same day . |
| 28 | Built on the site of the old Minoan city , the town of Chania on the North West coast was our next stop . |
| 29 | Interox , jointly owned by Solvay and Laporte , has selected the east German town of Bernberg as the site for its new 50 000 t pa hydrogen peroxide plant . |
| 30 | Their debut British television performance recorded late last year in their home town of Seattle for The Word scored 400 complaining calls . |