Example sentences of "the steep [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I walked down the steep corridor to the huts that looked outwardly like the huts of both my TV hospital and the real one forty years ago . |
| 2 | To your left , standing above the steep valley of the Brusnice River is the Riding School erected in 1694–5 by Jean-Baptiste Mathey . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , the steep climb to the inner ward at the top is rewarded by possibly the most stunning views from any castle in England — to the west the Welsh mountains , to the east the Pennines and , on a clear day , the Wrekin to the south east . |
| 4 | It can have been no easy journey for the funeral procession of mourners and military volunteers as they followed the coffin up the steep climb to Catherine Hill Burial Ground that bleak Friday in February with the snow thick on the ground . |
| 5 | The day starts with a bang — the steep climb to Y Garn ( 2,080ft ) — after this you 'll probably be glad to pause a while , enjoy the view of the day ahead and have the chance to get your breath back . |
| 6 | Finnan led the company through the curious stares of many to the end of the docks , and the steep climb up the hill to the city proper . |
| 7 | How such a venture was ever worthwhile is debatable for it had the disadvantage of the steep climb from the pavement . |
| 8 | The house stood at the summit of a rocky mound at the end of it , like a miniature St Michael 's Mount , but to Leonora it was Mecca to a believer as she began the steep climb from the beach towards journey 's end , and Guy . |
| 9 | Walk up the steps on your right , over the stile and follow the wall up the steep field to the road . |
| 10 | He naturally tried to recover from the steep dive before striking the ground . |
| 11 | Although the switching action is abrupt , the current in L1 and the voltage across C2 can not , however , follow the steep rise of the switch output but builds up relatively slowly . |
| 12 | He suggests that shifts in the social and political climate in the United States may have had something to do with this change : the very dates of the steep rise of interest in functionalism among sociological theorists also suggests that it may have some ideological import . |
| 13 | THE International Stock Exchange is mounting a preliminary investigation into the steep rise in the share price of Pearl Group , the British life insurer , last Friday ahead of the announcement yesterday of a £1.1bn takeover bid for the group by Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's largest life insurance group . |
| 14 | The increase was in large part caused by the rising costs of social security , itself a consequence of the steep rise in unemployment , and the NATO commitment to boost defence spending by an extra 3 per cent per annum in real terms . |
| 15 | However , the development has attracted criticism in the past months as a possible white elephant following the effect of the steep rise in interest rates on the economy . |
| 16 | However , the development has attracted criticism in the past months as a possible white elephant following the effect of the steep rise in interest rates on the economy . |
| 17 | However , after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war and the steep rise in oil prices , inflation as well as private consumption began to soar , and from 1976 foreign aid began to fall . |
| 18 | In addition , there is a wealth of detail relating to those features of tasks which are associated with the steep rise in their difficulty in one or more of the attainment bands within the target sample . |
| 19 | Thus , Worrall and Pease ( 1996 : 196 ) , examining the steep rise in prison numbers in 1985 , found that the most plausible , if speculative explanation was that ‘ a general penal climate in Great Britain has permeated sentencing practice and made it harsher ’ . |
| 20 | In front of the building was a large paved double courtyard , which was level , despite the steep gradient of the hill ; it was separated from the pavement by a high , elaborate , wrought iron fence , the gate of which stood fortunately open . |
| 21 | In 1870 locomotive haulage replaced steel-rope haulage of trains up the steep gradient from Liverpool , and Ramsbottom designed ventilating extractor fans to remove foul air and smoke from the tunnel . |
| 22 | Beyond the solitary canal house on the towpath the canal disappears dramatically down to the steep hillside through the ‘ greatest lock staircase in England ’ , as L.T.C. Rolt puts it . |
| 23 | So he found them a tiny cottage just south of Orvieto , in the grounds of the villa of some Italian friends of his who had departed for the northern mountains , a villa with a pool and a shady veranda along one side and an unspeakably romantic view down the steep hillside towards the floating cathedral . |
| 24 | Brian and I usually rode up the steep hillside at the back of the house to where , at 8500 feet , there was a grotto , crudely cut out of the rock below ground level . |
| 25 | Gimmer Crag forms a head separated from the steep hillside by these two obvious gullies , which both start at the same point . |
| 26 | By the time they pulled down the steep road to the caravan on the loughside he had a headache and a mouth like death . |
| 27 | So many dog training clubs only take dogs when they are six months old … well past the steep part of the learning curve and often at an age when male dogs , especially , are starting to grow up ( and become as rebellious and resistant to authority as any human adolescent ! ) . |
| 28 | This was an appropriate choice as part of the route follows the shepherd 's track , a narrow zigzag path climbing the steep part of the fell . |
| 29 | Evening mists were starting to fill the valley as the Rover began the steep descent to the village and the lakeside road . |
| 30 | The best access from this area of central Dalmatia to the upper course of the Cetina in Sinjsko Polje is from the coast at Split via Solin ( Salona ) and the steep defile at Klis . |