Example sentences of "the entrance to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing more interesting to be seen than if this had been the entrance to a rabbit warren , nothing but a tunnel that led down into darkness . |
| 2 | SAVE 's contention was that the entrance to a park was of crucial importance , however distant it was from the house itself . |
| 3 | They function as a diversion to the eye , a focus for a view , a foretaste of grandeurs to come at the entrance to a park . |
| 4 | It protected the entrance to a tunnel which passed through the wall , and Rostov was amazed at its length . |
| 5 | He passed the entrance to a courtyard . |
| 6 | The job involves installing new dockside container crane tracks , a 180 metre by 40 metre berth — constructed using precast concrete blocks of up to 40 tonnes in weight — and a 470 metres sea wall across the entrance to a bay adjacent to the existing port . |
| 7 | A common sight throughout the rural areas of South India , occurring sometimes at the entrance to a village or town , near Siva temples and shrines , in the corner of a temple courtyard , near a water tank or stream ( water being the mother of life ) or most often under Peepul or Neem trees , is a cluster of erect stone slabs planted in the ground rising to about 3 feet in height on the face of which appear effigies of the Cobra or Nag , In relation to the afore-mentioned trees , generally ‘ married ’ to each other , they are symbolic of ‘ life ’ , with the Serpent representing their spirit or life energy . |
| 8 | A few yards up the hill , on my left , was a turning which at first I thought was just the entrance to a field . |
| 9 | He pulled up in front of the high iron grille gates barring the entrance to a drive , saw in his headlights a speakphone set into one of the brick pillars . |
| 10 | Curious , I went up the path to have a look at it and I discovered to my no great surprise that it marked the entrance to a churchyard . |
| 11 | When that palazzo fell into disrepair the door was brought here , to Via Filodrammatici , where it was set up at the entrance to a convent . |
| 12 | In Piddington v. Bates the power was employed to enable the police to station no more than two pickets at the entrance to a factory . |
| 13 | Three makeshift stalls had been set up at the entrance to a shopping mall . |
| 14 | It is as twisted as the entrance to a tomb . ’ |
| 15 | Added to straightforward handling which gives just a hint of oversteer when the throttle is lifted on the entrance to a corner , the result is a car that can accomplish long distances over give-and-take roads without ever tiring the driver . |
| 16 | There were two hours of daylight left when Kevin Brown and the agent parked their car in the entrance to a farm track and made the rest on foot . |
| 17 | In Homeless History a blown-up snapshot of a young woman , circa 1930 , is placed at the entrance to a room where paper peels away from black mould , shattered plaster exposes beams and woodwork is broken . |
| 18 | Past the entrance to a farmyard rutted deep in soft mud , and he could see the slipped roofing of the barns where the fallen tiles had been replaced by corrugated iron . |