Which preposition to use with site

of Occurrences 862%

It is in the Grecian style, and stands on the site of a former hunting-lodge, dating back to the 9th century.

for Occurrences 139%

The first place our boat stopped at is called the "Trout Pavillion," principally, so far as I can learn, on account of the immense number of pickerel caught there, and from the fact that it is unquestionably a good site for a Pavillion whenever the esteemed Proprietor turns up jacks enough, at his favorite game, to build one.

in Occurrences 40%

" "We think we have the only suitable town-site in this immediate locality," said Mr. Rose, "and as a town is already started, we have saved the company considerable expense.

on Occurrences 37%

But even this place was soon too confined for his increased subjects, and he looked round for a site on which he might lay the foundations of a great city, the destined metropolis of a great empire.

at Occurrences 11%

But it stood on a commanding site at the head of Mountain Hill between the Grand Battery and the Chateau St Louis.

as Occurrences 7%

The vicar of the parish has antiquarian propensities, and had probably dragged the stocks out of some dusty hiding-place, and set them up on their former site as a curiosity.

to Occurrences 6%

In their usual way they have been dictating the choice of a site to me, abusing me for not fixing upon it; and I found out that very few of them had even taken the trouble of looking at the ground.

by Occurrences 6%

The result would be, the blind would lead the near-sited by the nose.

with Occurrences 5%

Someone from the park will then go to the site with the caller, after taking directions from him/her, and try to get the snake.

near Occurrences 5%

On the contrary, within a radius of six miles there are half a dozen unoccupied sites near running streams.

than Occurrences 2%

This piece will command a much higher rent as a shop site than in any other capacity; for that piece house-building is the obvious employment; for another, agriculture.

around Occurrences 2%

Spectators thronged the entire line of the procession, gazing sadly as it wended its way, and the sites around the Institute were crowded.

like Occurrences 2%

Clearly, the success of sites like Dear Raed stem from our increasingly complex society's need for a multiplicity of points of view on our most pressing issues, particularly when confronted by a mainstream mediaspace that appears to be converging on single, corporate and government approved agenda.

within Occurrences 2%

Exactly the same process has been going on for centuries in the University city of Oxford where the erection of colleges gradually absorbed the best sites within the old walls, so that many of the dwelling-houses are now quite two miles from the centre of the city.

before Occurrences 2%

That is better than standing inside such a grim establishmentany site before the insite (oh) of a prison; and has for its south western support the store-house of the Third Royal Lancashire Militia.

amid Occurrences 2%

2, Capital (7) of New Mexico, U.S.; holds an elevated site amid the Rockies; is the centre of a good mining district; has the oldest Spanish cathedral in the United States.

into Occurrences 1%

A builder of genius, working on the library, might indeed have displayed his science and his taste by some beautiful invention adapted to the awkward locality; as Baldassare Peruzzi, in the Palazzo Massimo at Rome, converted the defects of the site into graces by the exquisite turn he gave to the curved portion of the edifice.

along Occurrences 1%

In Iowa there were town-sites along all the streams and scattered all over the prairies.

from Occurrences 1%

" Meeting adjourned to inspect this valuable site from the windward side.

about Occurrences 1%

The discussion of the London traffic problem as we practise it in our clubs is essentially the sage turning over and over again of such fragmentary schemes, headshakings over the vacant sites about Aldwych and the Strand, brilliant petty suggestions anddispersal.

out Occurrences 1%

M. Souvy, a government printer of Tahiti, had given the site out of his humble savings.

outside Occurrences 1%

To the north of the church are the old buildings of the grammar school, now removed to a site outside the town to the east.

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