Example sentences of "be on [art] outskirts [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Cherry Hill is in the ‘ International Modern ’ style and could equally well be on the outskirts of Stuttgart or San Francisco as Sunningdale .
2 One is believed to be on the outskirts of Middlesbrough , near The Post House Hotel .
3 There is a dairy farm and two farmers who keep pigs quite close to the centre of the village , but the larger farms with their pigs and sheep and production of cereal crops are on the outskirts of the village .
4 The Kuwait the Kuwait cities are designed in such a way that the military installations and erm are outside the country , so from the eyewitnesses that we receive that all the bombings are on the outskirts of the city , no damage to Kuwait City or to the civilians inside Kuwait .
5 And yet that inn , the Hotel de perigord , being set down by the Dronne , is on the outskirts of Aubeterre. for Aubeterre is a hilltown , set on a chalky cliff above the river ( whence the name — Aubeterre , Alba Terra ) .
6 The slaughterhouse is on the outskirts of the town , and can be smelled before it comes into view .
7 The venue is on the outskirts of Folkestone and the cost for the three-day course is just £40 .
8 The Conference Planning Committee approved the location , which is on the outskirts of Bangkok , during its recent meeting in London .
9 The Conference Planning Committee approved the location , which is on the outskirts of Bangkok , during its recent meeting in London .
10 The dental surgery where his Mum worked was on the outskirts of Thirkett .
11 The Red Lion was on the outskirts of town , in ‘ the country ’ — if so it could be called — where fields showed coyly between pre-war semis , sprouting electricity sub-stations and pylons , drive-in garden centres and the odd cow or two .
12 Lewis 's father 's parish was on the outskirts of Manchester and the vicarage was Victorian-Byzantine-Gothic , soot-blackened yellow bricks with the pseudo-Romanesque windows picked out in red bricks .
13 The technical college was on the outskirts of town , miles away from the cinema .
14 It was on the outskirts of the village and belonged to an elderly , childless couple .
15 That evening I did not see anything of Fontanellato because our new home was on the outskirts of the village and we drove straight there .
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