Example sentences of "beyond it the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They rested on elbows , or lay stretched like Stars , stomachs in sand , smooth heads together , a brown hand lifting a white cigarette to a rose-painted mouth , and a line of malachite green smoke going up into the air , which was not here the intense cobalt of the plain of Orange , but pearl-cream-gold , a heavy air , soft and undulating like the pale sand and beyond it the warm , hazed , sand-green sea .
2 From Schupfheim a spectacular minor road runs south for 17km ( 10½ miles ) following the Forest Emme ( Waldemme ) as this stretch of Little Emme is commonly called , through the hills along the Mariental valley to Fluhli and the little climatic resort of Sorenberg ( 1,159m , 3,802ft ) , near which is a cable railway to the summit of the Brienzer Rothorn which gives an unrivalled prospect of Lake Brienz and beyond it the whole massif of the Bernese Oberland peaks .
3 The more restricted arena of the Chamber itself was divided into the Presence Chamber , where anyone with access to court might go , and beyond it the Privy Chamber and the most private apartments , to which entree was restricted .
4 Beyond it the contiguous earth was sun-deprived and barren .
5 Far below him the river was a silver thread , curling and twining through meadows freshly green in sunlight ; and beyond it the folded hillocks rose plumed with clumps of trees , heaving and falling in a series of green bowls all along the flank of the dimpled ridge that soared to the dark green of woodland above .
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