Example sentences of "[prep] the south-west [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of the act , which came into force in April this year , was to exclude almost 100 boats operated by Spanish owners , mostly in waters off the south-west coast of Britain . |
| 2 | Chromite and olivine sands , with other heavy minerals , have recently been discovered during MRP investigations off the south-west coast of Rhum ( MRP 106 ) . |
| 3 | Their most useful contribution has been a fresh appraisal of his later work created at Moret-sur-Loing where his art culminated in the marvellous series of depictions of the south-west facade of the town 's church ( 1893–1894 ) . |
| 4 | The Reverend Tennyson died in 1831 and his grave can be found near the south-west corner of the tower . |
| 5 | The central nave of the church was clerestoried and a slender bell-turret of octagonal plan was subsequently installed against the south-west corner of the nave , projecting slightly beyond the south aisle . |
| 6 | This would involve a second runway stretching roughly westwards past the village of Ashley making a shallow ‘ V ’ with the south-west tip of the existing runway . |
| 7 | Extension of this elevated level into the south-west corner of the main block allowed an en suite bathroom to be attached to the master bedroom . |
| 8 | Observations from 22 to 26 January 1992 showed a prominence extending above the south-west limb of the Sun on 22 and 23 January . |
| 9 | Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty . |
| 10 | Fifteen miles away from Menzion you can join the Southern Upland Way , which runs for 212 miles from the south-west coast of Scotland to the eastern seaboard . |
| 11 | The mouth of the River Exe is the largest and most important estuary for birds in the south-west peninsula of Devon and Cornwall . |
| 12 | It was obvious that our seven strenuous years had been spent in the south-west corner of a very large establishment , the main house of which was probably well to the north-east on the rough ground supporting the hen huts . |
| 13 | The capital was Turku ( in Swedish Åbo ) , on the coast in the south-west corner of the country . |
| 14 | From Seedorf the road runs round the south-west corner of Lake Uri to Isleten , continuing from there along the shore to Bauen . |
| 15 | The road leading south from the crossroads seems to have followed the course of the modern road and may have led to the south-west corner of the Labyrinth 's West Court , where a part of an access road has been exposed . |
| 16 | Very well , but then let us go right down to the south-west corner of the United States and lock at the Moenkopi and associated formations of Arizona . |
| 17 | Nevertheless it does occur , as has been clearly demonstrated , for example , in the intertidal and supratidal deposits of the Trucial Coast on the south-west side of the Persian Gulf . |
| 18 | Situated on the South-west coast of Mainland Greece , on the Bay of Corinth , 3 kms from the spa resort of Loutraki . |
| 19 | There was a port called Minoa on the south-west coast of Sicily which may have been a Crete-controlled trading station . |
| 20 | BOMB DISPOSAL specialists were yesterday called out to beaches on the south-west coast of Scotland after Second World War phosphorus canisters believed to be from an undersea dump were washed ashore . |
| 21 | Also , the Christ Church Vicarage , Which was situated on the corner of Sutton Lane and Heathfield Gardens , opposite Fromow 's Corner on the south-west Corner of Turnham Green , was demolished , the Vicar moving to a new Vicarage which had been built close by , in Wellesley Road . |
| 22 | Some land at the south-west edge of the Fens has recently been downgraded from grade 1 to grade 3 because of its acidity and the presence of bog oaks which have been exposed by wastage . |
| 23 | The official date of the starting is 1387 , as shown on a plaque set in the wall at the south-west corner of the building : El Principio il Domo di Milano fu nel Anno 1386 . |
| 24 | The baptistery stands separately at the south-west corner of the cathedral and was begun in 1196 . |