Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [art] [adj] banks " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir George Calvert , a politician at the Stuart court , had already shown his interest in colonization by trying to found a settlement in the Avalon district of Newfoundland , though this had failed partly because of the climate and partly because of the opposition of the fishermen who came from England every summer to use it as a base for fishing on the Grand Banks . |
| 2 | The Canadian government has banned cod fishing on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and Labrador — formerly the richest cod fishery in the world — in an effort to conserve rapidly-declining stocks . |
| 3 | There 'll be a run on a British banks like no tomorrow ! |
| 4 | It is strange to relate that this short stretch of water should be such a barrier but the hills of Wouldham and village are as foreign to some people of Halling as any parts of the world and in fact there are some who travel all over the country and to some places abroad , but have lived all their lives in the village without ever setting foot on the further banks of the river . |
| 5 | On June 20 , Prime Minister Tiit Vahi signed an agreement in Moscow with Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Economic Relations Minister Aleksandr Shokhin , including trade and payments clearing and a protocol on the national banks . |
| 6 | Today the hunt was for blackberries , which were known to grow in profusion on the high banks of the fields beyond the woods . |