Example sentences of "in the mountain " in BNC.

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1 Evan continued to lecture and lead students to locations in the mountains right into his eighties .
2 As Victor Saunders points out in his chapter on the Caucasus in The Mountains of Europe ( Oxford Illustrated Press ) , of the ten highest summits , nine received their first ascent from members of the Alpine Club — admittedly including honorary member Vittorio Sella who was Italian , not British .
3 Not too much has been done in the mountains , hardly surprising given the length of time they have been dry , but Dai Lampard snatched a great ascent with Mother of Mercy E5 6a .
4 The article ‘ Snowdon the Hard Way ’ by Jerry Rawson ( June 1991 ) revived many pleasant memories of long days spent over 40 years ago in the mountains of Snowdonia .
5 He makes contacts with Eritrean representatives in London , and then the professional lure of a scoop brings him , bumpily , to the front line in the mountains , with Asmara , the capital , only a 100 miles away .
6 ‘ They are also to stop the people having relations with the Khmer Rouge in the mountains , ’ he said .
7 In a thrilling climactic scene during a howling blizzard in the mountains , he and Umegawa do kill themselves .
8 ‘ And Michael is gone to our aunt in the mountains for a week . ’
9 At last we were back in the mountains .
10 But the threat he regards as greatest of all is the one he least expected : the discovery of gold in the mountains at his back door .
11 Groups like the Welsh Language Society and the Free Wales Army were said to be training freedom fighters in the mountains and he was barracked everywhere he went .
12 After Calgary ( population : 400,000 ; rail service after January : one train a week , summer only ) we were in the mountains , and people crowded into the dome car for the high spot of the trip .
13 I first encountered Morina longifolia in the mountains of east Nepal on a ridge within sight of Kanchenjunga .
14 There was school , and a lot of sport , and time spent in the mountains ; but music was clearly something of a priority .
15 We spent a lot of time in the mountains .
16 If the weather was fine and we wanted to be out in the mountains , then we would only work in the evening .
17 The narrator of Farewells owns a bar in a sleepy village up in the mountains .
18 He added : ‘ The odds were stacked against Fiji in the World Cup , having to play in France , in the mountains at night , in the freezing cold of Grenoble in the Alps . ’
19 Delves said he was trying to strike a deal with an American corporation to build a hotel in the mountains .
20 He is in a castle in the mountains , where the roads were terrible and all the communication lines were down .
21 Crichton Smith avoids any overt psychological probing of Hector 's impulsive decision to flee his civilian job and join the army , of the sterility of his loveless marriage , and the contrasting warmth of his affection for his fighting men and presents instead a series of almost filmic images of orioles and hoopoes in the mountains of embattled Afghan istan ; of ghostly white dervishes attacking spindly-legged Sudanese troops ; and finally , of a heavy , tormented man , alone in a Paris hotel room , with nothing before him but disgrace and death .
22 ASK native Californians the best thing about their state and the chances are they will reply that for a good part of the year it is possible to spend the mornings on the beach getting a suntan and the afternoons in the mountains skiing .
23 In 1932 Myles Horton was instrumental in forming the Highlander Folk School in the mountains of Tennessee as ‘ a school for problems ’ for the Appalachian mountain people .
24 Highlander staff wanted to get back to somewhere near where they started from ; that is , working with struggling communities in the mountains , helping them to find a voice , to articulate their problems clearly , and in realising the nature of their problems , to take positive action to solve them .
25 Highlander was able to put the YCCC in touch with other community groups in the mountains which had a wide variety of similar experiences of toxic waste dumping in their communities .
26 I watched many hours of video films while at Highlander , and in various communities in the mountains with which Highlander is associated , and there can be few better examples of the power of video as an empowering and educational tool than some of the footage which the YCCC have taken .
27 Stocking rates were high near the coast but low in the mountains and the stock produced from the mountains was less marketable .
28 Chezery and Brenod were high in the mountains , at 5,000 and 4,000 feet respectively , and had to contend like Norway with snow cover for six months of the year .
29 We will put our women behind us in the mountains , and die in our own land fighting for them .
30 And do n't miss wet and wild , a visit to natural waterfalls in the mountains followed by an afternoon at an amazing waterpark .
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