Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [art] slopes " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recovery of the Mayo family 's bodies — 15-year-old Matthew , his father Dr Christopher and uncle Michael — brought the year 's death toll on the slopes to 14 . |
| 2 | After a fortnight of uncertainty on the slopes of Everest , the first words from a mountaineering legend , for his girlfriend and family . |
| 3 | The Hill Farming Research Organisation and the Edinburgh Centre of Rural Economy carry out important experimentation and scientific study on the slopes around the Flotterstone area . |
| 4 | I mean I , I tend to think it 's a , it 's a play that 's got some very very funny bits in it , I do n't want to give away what the story 's about , but whilst there 's been the frivolity on the slopes , the whole thing starts to take on a , a , I tell you what it was , I remember reading an article by Dr Ruth , who said that good skiers are good in bed because the image of , of the skier is very potent , you know , and very strong . |
| 5 | The wall is not in fact vertical though it is easy to misremember it as such , because it rises in three distinct layers of limestone , to heights of 6,900 , 8,500 and finally some 9,000 feet , with a filling of ice and snow on the slopes that divide one layer from the next . |
| 6 | In The Milebrook were assegais and other trophies brought back by my grandfather after he had shattered the Zulu army at Ulundi in 1879 — but I never begrudged those peerless warriors their earlier , annihilating victory over a British force on the slopes of Isandhlwana . |
| 7 | Graham spends all winter on the slopes . |
| 8 | The mountains can be a dangerous place — weather changes rapidly leaving climbers and walkers ‘ blind ’ while hands and feet can easily lose their grip on the slopes covered with neve or tightly packed snow . |
| 9 | I can still hear the laughter on the slopes and feel the wind on the summit as a quiet congregation knelt in the mist and rain . |
| 10 | The critique of Nietzsche 's apocalyptic aestheticism , with its injunction to build your dwelling on the slopes of Vesuvius , just can not be reduced to the cliché about Baudrillard fiddling while Rome burns with which the book closes . |
| 11 | The upper levels of the incline were , we believe , supported on foundations deep enough to rest on firm subsoil ; while to reduce the danger of slippage on the slopes and particularly on the steeper embankment at the side , amounts of clay baked on site were mixed with the surface material . |
| 12 | After a heavily-publicised week on the slopes of Lech with their mother , the Princess of Wales , the princes are likely to join their father for the next part of their Easter holiday . |
| 13 | MAREUIL-SUR-AŸ : Belemnite chalk on the slopes beneath Mutigny , alluvial soil approaching Mareuil-sur-Aÿ itself . |
| 14 | His is not an isolated story — to this day many people report hearing or seeing a strange presence on the slopes of the mountain . |
| 15 | Every skier becomes aware , at a very early stage in his or her progress on the slopes , of the importance of the knee . |
| 16 | There is even one report of a couple of Russian geologists hopping on to the bouldery surface of an aa flow on the slopes of the Klyuchevskaya volcano in Kamchatka while it was still moving . |
| 17 | During grape picking Signor Lombardo , the owner , invites guests to visit his vineyard on the slopes of Etna where he produces a wonderful red wine . |
| 18 | Most of Gould 's time on this first brief visit to Yarrundi was spent in pursuit of one particular bird — the Menura or lyre-bird that abounded in the cedar brush on the slopes of the Liverpool Range . |
| 19 | In contrast , the extrusion of a small volume of lava from a secondary cone on the slopes of Tristan da Cunha became the focus of global interest when , during October 1961 , the island 's lobster processing plant was smothered and the 300 people of the island 's only settlement were evacuated to the UK . |
| 20 | Now , when there is heavy rainfall on the Himalayas the soil on the slopes just wash away and cause rivers to overflow . |
| 21 | The Little Emme rises further east on the slopes of th Giswiler Stock ( near the Lungern Lake ) and flows roughly north an then east to join the Reuss . ) |
| 22 | You have a one in six chance of coming a cropper on the slopes — which is trebled if you are under the influence of tranquillisers . |
| 23 | The line still represents a real challenge to footplate crews and one of the major attractions as far as enthusiasts are concerned is to hear the engines working under pressure on the slopes of the Rheidol Valley . |
| 24 | But lots of people travel in the snow-washed variety — especially cocky skiers who say they wear denim on the slopes because they never fall over . |
| 25 | This tragedy , however , did not dull their passion for skiing and Sarah remembers the early rivalry for supremacy on the slopes . |
| 26 | A 6′ 4″ natural athlete from Eastbourne who spent the winter slumming it as a ski-guide on the slopes of Meribel , he completed the over when Jones limped out of Lancashire 's victory quest at Hove , then proceeded to halt the charge with a career-best 5 for 54 . |
| 27 | On 6 September 1746 two new French privateers , L'Heureux and Le Prince de Conti , reached Loch nam Uamh and on 19 September the prince was summoned from his impromptu shelter on the slopes of Ben Alder in Inverness-shire , a mere 25 miles [ 40 km ] from Fort William . |
| 28 | But the estate itself survives , with well designed terraced houses of stone on the slopes of a wooded valley with a stream running through it . |
| 29 | Doubtless he 'd be able to find much more amenable company on the slopes tomorrow morning . |
| 30 | The creamy yellow flowers grew in profusion on the slopes of an old railway embankment . |