Example sentences of "the entrance [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She was waiting for him and ran across the entrance court to meet him .
2 The façades , especially the entrance porches , and the cloisters show the magnificent decoration of such churches at its best .
3 Few soldiers passed the entrance test : the candidate stood in a hole in the ground up to his waist , wearing no armour .
4 His Dad came in with them into the entrance lobby .
5 There the interior was almost indistinguishable from a church : the nave was the waiting-room complete with seats arranged like pews , memorials on the walls , chandeliers suspended from exposed rafters ; the chancel was the booking office , with an information kiosk in the crossing ; the apses were the entrance lobby and the route to the tracks .
6 The entrance lobby of the hotel was bright with neon .
7 Both of them got out on the restaurant floor , but Pavel carried on down to the entrance lobby .
8 A member of the German Wire Company is conducting a line test on one of the telephones , and the Turkish interpreter , a young , olive-skinned Lance-Corporal with only two of his eighteen months ' national service remaining , and known to all by his first name of Ercan because his surname is unpronounceable in English , is standing near the entrance drinking coffee and smoking a foul-smelling cigarette .
9 A share of the entrance charges on the day will be donated to the Lions .
10 The entrance charges to the beach are included and sun-beds can be hired there .
11 The entrance charges also ensure that we know exactly how many people visit these Gardens .
12 She was the type of young woman who loves danger ; and she insisted that we lie down in the entrance way to a park .
13 Doyle appeared in the entrance way to the car park , raised his gun and carefully shot out each of the rear tyres .
14 The woman guarding the entrance way does not wish to know this .
15 She paid her ten pence at the glass cage of the entrance booth , to a young man who could not possibly be the custodian , Great-Uncle Alan 's contemporary , but was clearly something rather more scholarly than a mere gate-keeper .
16 Many times during this pocket lecture she could have turned and looked at her instructor , and put him clean out of countenance merely by looking ; but she had not done it because she was so sure that he was the young man from the entrance booth , a licensed enthusiast , and entitled to his brief moments of emotional escape .
17 A section through Draycott cave is shown in Fig. 4.2 , and the main concentration of amphibian bones occurs at the deepest part of the entrance chamber of the cave where it seems to be permanently wet .
18 As they reached the entrance gate , he felt it was time to add : ‘ Look , this was n't my idea , you know .
19 Right The lantern above the entrance gate to the Palazzo Arcivescovile
20 The court heard that when the Deputy County Engineer inspected the dump site on 15 April , he found four bags of pelleted asbestos exposed on the site , pellets scattered on part of the site and for 70 yards along the access road and one pellet at the entrance gate to the site .
21 I felt not only miserable , but strangely scared , as though the pass above me was in itself a terrifying manifestation of dark imaginings , like the entrance gate to the place where the dead wait in limbo .
22 They reached the caravan site and Sidney paused , resting his arms on the entrance gate .
23 Our host greeted us at the entrance gate , shaking me by the hand , bowing to Olivia , embracing the mali and frowning at Balvinder Singh .
24 She has been seconded to the Civil Service Selection Board , where she is helping to devise the entrance competition for the ‘ fast stream ’ applicants to the Civil Service , Diplomatic Service and Tax Inspectorate .
25 Wishing the bride good luck , we pushed our way through the milling crowds of guests and out under the entrance arch of the haveli .
26 It is , however , the draughtsmanship of the black and white drawings especially of the entrance gateway and the view of Sir William Turner 's Hospital on the cover of the Langbaurgh Calendar that is most arresting .
27 To the east lay the entrances to the warehouse for road vehicles and the entrance yard , around which were the carting , time , weight , telegraph , and enquiry offices .
28 The cinema was tiny , run single-handed by Neno Rossi , who would store the entrance eggs in straw and then run the projector .
29 I told him about the lavatory on the entrance floor , which did for the fourteen tenants in the house .
30 He introduced new boilers in the boilerhouse under the main galleries ; he installed a completely new steel structure in the ceiling above the entrance hall — without harming the ceiling paintings by Benjamin West and Angelica Kauffmann ; he rebuilt the goods lift to carry loads of up to three tonnes into the galleries ; he refurbished the public cloakrooms .
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