Sentence examples for natural hill from inspiring English sources

Clearly a TV natural, Hill subsequently switched channels to the BBC and made more than 600 appearances as presenter of Match of the Day.

His temple mountain, now called Bakheng (literally "Mighty Ancestor"), was built on a natural hill that overlooked a teeming city, the more-distant rice-growing plain, and the Tonle Sap.

The city was oriented around a central mountain or pyramid temple (symbolic of Mount Meru, home of the gods) that was an architectural adaptation and completion of the one natural hill in the area, the Phnom Bakheng.

Instead of being built on a flat surface, Borobudur is built on a natural hill.

What started as a conflict over a natural hill with no artifacts turned into a lifelong lesson on sacred places that are invisible to an untrained person.

Where a natural hill could be used, scarping could produce a motte without the need to create an artificial mound, but more commonly much of the motte would have to be constructed by hand.

Rolling natural hills and golf-course earth forms demonstrate the potential.

The hazards for us are both natural (hills, headwinds) and man-made (bridges, speeding truckers hauling double trailers, fishtailing RVs, pavement strewn with debris).

Some of them, she writes, mimicked natural hills: "real earth had blown on to them to hold a growth of sparse grass and perhaps even a sinewy peppercorn or peach tree".

Over the years the art center used this rocky material to shape its grounds, creating the seemingly natural hills and valleys that now are dotted with sculptures and site-specific works by artists like David Smith, Isamu Noguchi and Mr. Goldsworthy.

But his registering of scale is delicately done, with bodies dwarfed by cavernous structures or natural hills and vales, and you can feel him struggling to remind us, as Lucas and the other directors never bothered to do, that making wars among the stars is, by definition, the last word in futility and folly.