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

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1 A twin-tube torpedo battery covered the entrance to the fjord , and away to the north was a German mobile battery of 105mm guns at Halsor .
2 The alleged assault happened in Cheltenham High Street when a group of men were arrested near the entrance to the Regent 's Arcade .
3 From my position at the entrance to the dug-out I could see the wounded in the sunken road in the same positions they were in before the shelling started .
4 And after failing to find it once again it came into the porch and complained loudly and so I went outside and with a paint brush I marked the entrance to the hive with three blobs of paint of a different colour and then with a piece of cardboard I guided the tiny winged creature towards the marks on the wall and it went inside .
5 There was no sign of it on the surface — the track was probably carried over it on sleepers , long embedded in the mud of years — and the entrance to the drain was completely hidden by long grass .
6 And when the rain stops , the beavers may have to build them up again to prevent the level of the lake from falling so low that the entrance to the lodge is exposed .
7 He passes the attendant in the security booth at the entrance to the University campus , and takes the gently inclining road to the Ecole Polytechnique , the engineering faculty of l'Université de Montreal .
8 Twenty-five miles away lies the entrance to the Peak National Park where there are many waymarked walks .
9 O'Hara rode his motor-cycle to the Pier Head and parked it against the granite bollards at the entrance to the Albert Dock .
10 Above hopeful symbol of industry at the entrance to the fairgrounds
11 Uncle Alfred was waiting for her at the entrance to the nest when she arrived .
12 A dark mass trudged towards the entrance to the mill , lit by two lanterns .
13 At the entrance to the mill driveway is the old bake-house .
14 The entrance to the hole ?
15 Four people , including a child , were injured in a multiple pile-up involving a minibus and five cars in thick fog on the moor road between Whitby and Guisborough at the entrance to the Scaling Dam car park on Saturday .
16 His car swept past the entrance to the barn .
17 One , now a holiday home , is at the entrance to the Kildalton estate .
18 Across the county boundary between Devon and Somerset , at the entrance to the Severn Estuary ( as defined by Boyden et al. , 1977 ) , there is an abrupt change in shell-shape , apparently unrelated to any environmental factor ( Fig. 32 ) .
19 These are bright yellow and usually mounted on poles outside the entrance to the building .
20 They saw him leave the room where they were sitting and begin to walk across a bar which lay between it and the entrance to the building .
21 The more fortunate cluster together , striding out down the windy front past a long line of protesters , the disenchanted who , with banners in support of some unspeakable cause , line the entrance to the building , their passivity guaranteed ( at the poll-tax-payers ' expense ) by half-a-hundred provincial policemen .
22 Decoration work done by Darlington Probation Service has transformed the entrance to the building .
23 They have defied bailiffs by blocking the entrance to the building .
24 The guards are on duty all night just inside the entrance to the North Bastion .
25 The entrance to the gallery is from the first floor .
26 In the entrance to the gallery is a copy of Adrian de Vries 's bust of Rudolf with his distinctive profile .
27 ‘ I went up the nave and was surprised to see a man , cowled and hooded , kneeling at the entrance to the Lady Chapel . ’
28 Eventually we met up below the entrance to the Kitchen .
29 The chief scene for amorous exchange was the entrance to the boys ' swimming baths , for the girls had no baths of their own , and were obliged to use those of their brother school for their weekly afternoon 's lesson ; here , on the steps , small red messenger boys would collect , proffering envelopes from their elders .
30 Nick Evans records that ‘ Toys and Games again expanded and increased , helped by a new , spacious location at the entrance to the Undercroft .
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