Sentence examples for bits of countryside from inspiring English sources

Houses standing on their own in attractive bits of countryside are unlikely to get permission unless they meet criteria known by planners as the "Gummer clause".

Because the political boundaries of British cities often encompass suburbs and even bits of countryside, they can contain more people than larger-seeming American cities (see chart).Elected mayors are still a political novelty.

A much-discussed plan to consolidate a ragbag of municipal police forces into their state counterparts may finally go ahead, now that the PRI controls the presidency as well as most of the states.Mr Peña's proposal for a new "gendarmerie" of former soldiers, to control lawless bits of countryside, has come under criticism.

Yes, there are lovely, if flat, bits of countryside nearby, but I'm sure most people would choose to stay on the A1065 for another 30 minutes until they hit the glorious north Norfolk coast, with its huge choice of great places to stay and eat.

Christine Thaleman stood with her 7-week-old baby and 2-year-old in the Ninth Street spot, at Avenue C, and said that it provided a bit of countryside in the middle of the East Village.

Hundreds more are planned elsewhere many in beautiful bits of the countryside where some of Britain's richest people happen to live.

Whole chunks of the real estate market, including Belgravia, Chelsea and choice bits of the countryside, are dominated by Russians now too.

Each has its own carbon footprint, not to mention the environmental impact on the surrounding land, after thousands of people have converged on out-of-the-way and previously pristine bits of the countryside.

There's no harm in having a bit of the countryside in the inner city".

It looks as if someone has picked up a bit of English countryside and dropped it down in the centre of London.

This would give us a chance to see a bit of the countryside, and, these being second-division teams, a slightly less glamorous side of the English game.