Example sentences of "towns and [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Richard Rosser , general secretary of the Transport Salaried Staffs Association , said : ‘ For towns and communities on the threatened routes , closure would be a devastating blow . ’ |
| 2 | We shall see later in Part II that this decline of manufacturing employment was closely identified with the heavy growth of unemployment in the 1980s , and with its concentration in most industrial towns and cities outside the South East , places which typically had rates of unemployment of 14 to 20 per cent . |
| 3 | It looks through the buildings which make up English towns and cities at the processes of life which produced and used them , and so attempts to explain them in human terms . |
| 4 | Travel agents are now a familiar sight in towns and cities across the world but one hundred and fifty years ago there were very few . |
| 5 | These cars once graced the highways of mid-America and cruised the strips of countless towns and cities across the United States . |
| 6 | Experiments with such regulations had been tried in other towns and cities during the 1980s , but had met little success . |
| 7 | Men from the SAS and Delta Force infiltrated a number of towns and cities during the war , and Saddam Hussein himself told several of his visitors that the SIS ( or M16 , as it is often called ) had sent in three Pakistani agents to attend the Islamic conference which Iraq summoned a few days before the UN deadline . |
| 8 | The number of non-party political members of principal councils has declined steadily in recent years and it is usual in the large towns and cities for the authority to be governed by one or more of the political parties acting on a group basis . |
| 9 | Drivers themselves can not take the initiative since they can do nothing to relieve towns and cities of the extraordinarily wasteful and environmentally distasteful conditions which both they and the general public have to tolerate every day . |
| 10 | Their legacy was seen in rising unemployment , a growing gulf between a prospering , high-tech south-east and the squalid and declining towns and cities of the north , Scotland , Wales , and Ulster . |
| 11 | But it is a feudalism where inequalities and poverty have been intensified by British colonialism and which has in the last thirty-seven years since independence been in a state of flux caused by the varying stages of capitalism which reach out to it from the towns and cities of the Indian sub-continent . |
| 12 | Its leadership established itself in London although its real strength was centred in the towns and cities of the Midlands . |
| 13 | These deficiencies give rise to dissatisfaction in those who can see increasing inequalities in a society where suburbanites and those in the smaller towns and cities of the south of England have experienced large material gains through house-price increases and tax changes . |
| 14 | These bands travel the towns and cities of the Old World spreading their nightmarish vision of doom and despondency . |
| 15 | The exceptions , which have some form of developed street network , a more diverse range of buildings and perhaps even a central core , clearly stand out from the pack on current evidence , and they can thus be seen to compare most favourably with the urban patterns recognizable within the major towns and cities of the province . |
| 16 | We would prefer , of course , a direct link from the towns and cities of the north straight through to the channel tunnel , but that can not be achieved . |
| 17 | As can be imagined , trying to obtain reasonable samples of the general population for relatively short interviews on such topics as voting behaviour or food preferences can result in a lot of interviewers having to call at a lot of houses over all towns and cities in the country . |
| 18 | He is to take over not only the redevelopment of derelict inner-city sites , a major initiative in itself , but also the overlordship of the ten ( soon to be 12 ) Urban Development Corporations , as well as acting as an English development agency , attracting foreign companies to English towns and cities in the same way as he did for Wales . |
| 19 | The critical situation in the towns and cities in the closing stages of the war meant that much of the urban population had fled to the countryside . |
| 20 | Towns and cities in the southern half of Britain increased in population , while many of the industrial towns outside that region lost people . |
| 21 | Thus , there were articles on politics and society , both past and present ( for example , a listing of important historical events , descriptions of major towns and cities in the world , and details of Britain 's trading relationships with the rest of the world ) , and on religion ( the denominations of the church ) and literature ( a listing of Greek , Roman , and English classics ) . |
| 22 | This research project aims , therefore , to redress this imbalance with an analysis of the problems , the processes , and the results of the reconstruction of war-damaged British towns and cities in the decade 1945-1955 . |
| 23 | The experience of traders in York , Middlesbrough , Newcastle and other towns and cities around the country is that pedestrianisation does work for them . |
| 24 | between different towns and cities within the same administrative region ( in the North West , between Crewe or Nantwich as relatively successful economically , Liverpool as very unsuccessful ) ; |
| 25 | The history of Saltash through the Great War of 1914–18 was echoed by that of towns and cities throughout the country . |
| 26 | Two of Britain 's major motorways , the A1 and M1 , pass through Nottinghamshire linking it directly with towns and cities throughout the country . |
| 27 | The Vietcong then launched a massive New Year offensive , attacking towns and cities throughout the South , including the suburbs of Saigon itself . |
| 28 | If a major campaign is being planned , we can outline the best sites in towns and cities throughout the province . |
| 29 | The vote was restricted to house-holders in the towns and taxpayers in the rural areas . |
| 30 | For some , the war was brought much nearer home when the French ( with their Castilian allies ) began once again to attack and plunder towns and villages on the south coast of England , the legitimate activities of English fishermen being among those which suffered from such raids . |