Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] on [art] outskirts " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a very attractive Queen Anne building , situated in a quiet private lane on the outskirts of the pretty village of Pulborough . |
| 2 | He had a pleasant apartment on the outskirts of Moscow with his young wife and baby daughter , and hoped to achieve a small dacha . |
| 3 | In the north-east , we also saw on our televisions a gentleman — if one can call him that — being interviewed after the death of his son in a 90-mph crash involving a stolen car on the outskirts of Newcastle . |
| 4 | Lawrence , a child of Water Orton , a suburban lacuna on the outskirts of Birmingham , spent the dreaded '80s as the leader of Felt , a semi-legendary indie pop outfit whose dearth of sales was inversely matched by the affection and wonky respect in which they were held by the choosier pop consumer . |
| 5 | This muddy field on the outskirts of Swindon could be the new site for the Lloyds Register of Shipping . |
| 6 | Rachel 's father , Ken Stevens , had been in insurance all his life , and the family lived in a comfortable detached home on the outskirts of the city . |
| 7 | Porvoo Cathedral was built c. 1415 and stands on high ground on the outskirts of the town . |
| 8 | HENDERSON ISLAND — a tiny British territory on the outskirts of eastern Polynesia — is one of the last remaining undisturbed islands in the South Pacific . |
| 9 | The countdown to terror started when Michael and Anthony Faiella , 17 , of Kissimmee , Florida , drove to a popular nightclub on the outskirts of St Cloud to pick up Anthony Clifton and his girlfriend Tammy . |
| 10 | Ballyfermot is a high-rise architectural nightmare on the outskirts of Dublin , a working-class ghetto sufficiently distant from the bourgeois elegance of the city centre as to pose no threat to the burgeoning middle class , absorbed as they were then in the mild stirrings of environmentalism , as Georgian Dublin vanished up its own pastiched arsehole . |
| 11 | She 's probably enticed a man with a beard and a lot of snotty children away from his wife , and she 'll be shacked up with them in a mobile home on the outskirts of Llangollen , cooking beans and magic mushrooms and playing the flute and moaning about the artificial restrictions of society . ’ |
| 12 | OLD Miss Miggs lived alone in a tiny cottage on the outskirts of Shadwell . |
| 13 | Cleo had subsequently met the young De Belving several times at a squalid inn on the outskirts of the Burrows in order to have sex with him on a greasy , flea-invested bed in an upper room . |
| 14 | The house alone had been like a dream come true after the two-bedroomed flat on the outskirts of Stirling where she and her mother had lived in near penury for the past seven years since Shiona 's father 's death . |
| 15 | The tree-lined , walled graveyard on the outskirts of the old Czechoslovak silver mining town , 40 miles south of Prague , had been wrecked , more than 150 headstones knocked over by vandals . |
| 16 | The centrepiece of this delightful sleepy village on the outskirts of Middlesbrough the winner of a ‘ Britain in Bloom ’ award , is the Parish Church where James Cook Senior and Grace Pace , Cook 's parents , were married in 1725 . |
| 17 | The guiding light in Lewis 's life then went with her son to speak to the pupils of Bellahouston Academy and visit a retail development on the outskirts of Glasgow before he rounded off his day in the male only setting of the St Andrew 's Sporting club by watching Scotland 's Kris McAdam fight . |
| 18 | Wanda stole a half-bottle of Latvian double kümmel from her father 's extensive cellar and we took it to a little bridge on the outskirts of the village where we sat and talked , being careful to hide the bottle when anyone passed by but sipping away until we had finished the lot . |
| 19 | There was another significant , invariable factor — the phenomenal West Indies ' record on the unpretentious little ground on the outskirts of Bridgetown where they now swept to their eleventh consecutive victory in its 28 Tests . |
| 20 | His home was a four-bedroomed house standing in its own large garden on the outskirts of the town . |
| 21 | The most violent rioting was in Chimwemwe , a sprawling impoverished township on the outskirts of Kitwe : the hub of the Copperbelt . |
| 22 | An education officer friend of mine had occasion to visit a primary school on the outskirts of a small town . |
| 23 | She was the granddaughter of some forgotten Prussian nobleman and she and her husband had once owned a beautiful sixteenth century castle overlooking the town of Assmannshausen in the Rhine Valley before selling it in favour of their present mansion on the outskirts of Berlin . |
| 24 | The headstone of the grave , in a grey cemetery on the outskirts of Warsaw , was of plain granite and gave simply the dates of birth and death . |
| 25 | Instead , Cohen 's examination of Lautner 's career balances interviews and archival Wright footage with a close , deliberate scrutiny of space , materials and a stunning landscape on the outskirts of Los Angeles , where Lautner built some of his most ambitious projects . |
| 26 | 12.45 am , Kingswood : A mixed residential and industrial constituency on the outskirts of Bristol , Kingswood has been Tory since it was created in 1983 . |
| 27 | Burden plodded through the rain from estate agent to estate agent and he at last found Moat Hall , listed in the books of a small firm on the outskirts of the town . |
| 28 | A rally was held in a field on an Uzbek-run collective farm on the outskirts of Osh to discuss rival claims for its use , a group of around 1,500 Kirghiz having illegally occupied the field and demanded the right to divide it into housing plots , and around 10,000 Uzbeks having arrived to oppose them . |
| 29 | I went to Grenoble and discovered they had a small project on the outskirts , which had been a piece of wasteland ; they ploughed it all down , replanned it , had a complete new housing estate , hotel , the lot , in less than five years , where the City Council would be thinking about which bit of land to use , what to put there , how to do it , and ten years later they might think about producing a plan , and ten years after that ( that 's twenty years on ) something would appear . |
| 30 | There was still the original village , of course , now known as Old Yonder , and barely heard of by outsiders until the building of Riverside General Hospital on the outskirts . |