Example sentences of "the [adj] slope [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was on the downhill slope of a new novel and needed to visit the Reading Room at the British Museum most days . |
| 2 | Owing to the narrow slope of the site , the house is only one room thick , as compact as can be . |
| 3 | Members of the Battalion were converging on the broad slope above the empty resort . |
| 4 | Protected by hills and woods , the small granite house and its three-quarter-acre garden snuggle into the lower slope of Mynydd Rhiw , exposed only to the south and east . |
| 5 | In serum the changes in Ca 2 + with the changes in pH are caused predominantly by the albumin concentration , which explains the lower slope of pH in gall bladder bile ( median albumin concentration 200 µmol/l compared with 650 µmol/l in human serum ) . |
| 6 | And if your eyes followed the river westwards , you could have looked up from the valley directly on to the bald patch that was the cultivated land midway up the forested slope of Jimale . |
| 7 | Soaked with it and languid from the heat , with the scent of salt and sand still heavy in my nose , I asked if we could stop at the high slope of grass off Elderberry Road . |
| 8 | I dropped my rope at the base of one of the trees and started to rake , struggling to keep from slipping on the steep slope with its loose pine-needle surface . |
| 9 | Fei Yen stood by the window looking down the steep slope towards the terrace and the ornamental lake . |
| 10 | The steep slope towards Regent 's Park would be cluttered with death-defying sledges . |
| 11 | It took them all day to build the bridge — felling two of the tallest pines , stripping them bare , easing them with ropes down the steep slope to the river . |
| 12 | The path leads across several small streams down the steep slope to the right . |
| 13 | He climbed the steep slope to The Brigantine . |
| 14 | He climbed the steep slope to the Incident Room , forcing his pace , and arrived just a little out of breath . |
| 15 | High tide is often positively dangerous , with vicious dumping waves breaking on the steep slope of the upper beach . |
| 16 | The rear part of the hull , an impassable tangle of twisted metal , was embedded among outcropping boulders ; the front of the craft was largely undamaged but was suspended over the steep slope of the ridge . |
| 17 | Down the steep slope from the walls to the shore the narrow terraces of the abbot 's vineyard ranged like a staircase , the vines like charred black stumps as yet barely showing the first shadowy tint of green . |
| 18 | As he turned the corner into Bridgefoot Street he stopped , daunted by the steep slope before him . |
| 19 | Fei Yen reined in her horse and turned to look back down the steep slope beneath the beacon . |
| 20 | In cross-section ( Fig. 11.6 ) , the greatest effect of the wind will be felt on the windward slope of a mound of sand , and will lead to a pronounced movement of sand grains to the crest . |
| 21 | One more adventurous boy decided to explore the overgrown slope behind the hut and he was pushing his way through the undergrowth when he caught sight of a figure approaching the hut further down the slope ; the boy was close enough to see that the figure was that of a tramp wearing tattered clothing and crowned with a battered trilby hat . |
| 22 | Kalchu had been working them , tilling the land on the south-facing slope of Jimale , where wheat and bitter buckwheat are sown alternately . |
| 23 | We climbed up the easy slope to the top of the island , and found we were overlooking a sort of wooded cliff on the other side . |
| 24 | Ben was standing several paces from his father , looking back up the grassy slope to where they had set up arc lamps all around the cottage . |
| 25 | He strolled along by the front of the house until he reached the north wing , where he turned down the grassy slope towards the trees . |
| 26 | The Glory shuddered to a sudden halt on the grassy slope in front of the Monument and they were thrown forward against their seat-belts . |
| 27 | There were no notices , no signs , nothing that could indicate where he was to a traveller , so that the clean worn wood of the country platform and the solid unadorned brick of the little building seemed very much a part of the wooded slope at the back of it . |
| 28 | She showed me the way to the Burma Road , and I set off up the wooded slope behind the house . |
| 29 | She lifted a hand , touching the hard slope of his dark cheek with gentle fingers , then the arrogant curve of his nose and the darkness of his unshaven jaw . |
| 30 | Larsen saw that the skylight through which they had entered was situated at its midpoint , its twin a few feet away on the opposite slope of the roof . |