Example sentences of "[prep] [art] new town " in BNC.
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| 1 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 2 | a master plan for the new town is to be prepared by a consultant , working in close consultation with the local planning authority , since the bulk of the development will be carried out privately . |
| 3 | ‘ You helped me buy the land for the new town when I first came to Haiti . |
| 4 | We 're building shops for the new town . |
| 5 | And how did you feel about the New Town being born ? |
| 6 | We went through the New Town first , and it was bright and colourful , with the ladies ' dresses and the red roses of the Elphbergs . |
| 7 | There are two volcanoes today , Eldfell having been created by the 1973 eruption and joining Helgafell to create a twin pair of cones to the south-east of the new town . |
| 8 | Matthieu was also responsible for drawing up a plan of the New Town ( see p. 138 ) but he died in 1352 before completing more than four chapels in the cathedral choir . |
| 9 | The compacted mudflow presents a much more serious problem to archaeologists than the relatively soft pumice of Pompeii , and this coupled with the awkward presence of the new town on top of it makes it unlikely that it will ever be completely excavated . |
| 10 | The Ironbridge Gorge Museum is an extensive open-air museum embracing the buildings and industrial remains of the former cradle of the Industrial Revolution , centred on Coalbrookdale ( q.v. ) , now part of the new town named after the great civil engineer Thomas Telford ( q.v. ) who was once Shropshire 's Surveyor of Public Works . |
| 11 | Wonderful views of the New Town can be seen from the Old Town . |
| 12 | Cutting across the valley , which was once an expanse of water known as the Nor'Lock , the Mound was created from the excavations of the New Town . |
| 13 | Audio-visuals tell the story of the New Town . |
| 14 | The old building ( 1776–1792 ) is by James Craig , the designer of the New Town . |
| 15 | Running round the base of the Hill REGENT TERRACE , CARLTON TERRACE and ROYAL TERRACE , designed by W. H. Playfair , form a handsome extension of the New Town development . |
| 16 | West of Princes Street lies a later stage of the New Town planning , centred on the wide and dignified MELVILLE STREET with the triple spires of St Mary 's Cathedral rising at its far end . |
| 17 | Audio-visual shows tell the story of the New Town and the development of Georgian architecture . |
| 18 | A glance to the left gives glimpses of the spacious Georgian squares and terraces of the eighteenth century , when the North Loch and surrounding swamps were drained to allow construction of the New Town . |
| 19 | But there were many who were jealous of the new town 's phenomenal rise and who looked upon it as a sink of iniquity where the nouveaux riches wallowed in the luxury obtained from trade . |
| 20 | As might be expected , very few came from middle-class suburbs like Newington , Morningside or the West End , practically none from the squares of the New Town , and very few from outlying villages or districts . |
| 21 | Their homes were mostly in the traditional working-class districts of the city , whether the tenements of the Old Town and South Side , or the lower-built streets north of the New Town between Edinburgh and the port of Leith . |
| 22 | In a warm blizzard of drowsiness he watches the snow sud and curdle over the roofs and spires of the New Town , mounting up the slope of Old Odborough , up the hill of the Main Street , till it reaches Mount Pleasant . |
| 23 | Er I liked to ask you erm about if you , if you think that Harlow lives up to the ideal of the New Town ? |
| 24 | The new District Council received a useful report on the status of the new town in 1973 when it was in ‘ shadow ’ existence ( BVDC , 15/10/73 ) . |
| 25 | In Cramlington , only the latter sector exists , given the disappearance of coal so early in the life of the New Town . |
| 26 | At Barrow-in-Furness the site of the new town was owned by the dukes of Devonshire , one of whom was responsible for its planning in the middle decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | It was probably set up around 1150 and given this huge market place along an existing road running north to south But the main through road from Oxford to Aylesbury ran from east to west a little to the north of the new town . |
| 28 | The people of the Old Town , who were poor , wanted Duke Michael to be their King , but the people of the New Town wanted King Rudolf . |
| 29 | While the use of the New Town device is now being discontinued , British governments continue to experiment with approaches to urban renewal which bypass existing agencies . |
| 30 | The winding up of the New Town Development Corporations began in the mid-1980s , and in December 1986 the Minister for Housing said that all of the New Town Development Corporations would have gone by 1992 . |