Example sentences of "[adv] to the north " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is a view you are after , then better to go to the top of the Pic du Midi than remain down on the col , for from there the prospect has for long been famous , especially to the north over the plains and , on a good day , westward to the Atlantic . |
| 2 | During this first period ( up to 1750 ) of relatively slow and uneven growth , trusts were set up at a rate of only eight a year and were concentrated largely around London , radiating especially to the north and west and into the Midlands . |
| 3 | I continue walking down to the north section of West India Dock , to the Sugar Warehouses . |
| 4 | He 'd been shaken , certainly , when Cedric Downes had invited him to go along to the North Oxford Golf Club and knock up the caretaker if necessary . |
| 5 | While all this is going on , far away to the north the volunteers of the Royal Engineers have arrived and are getting straight down to work . |
| 6 | With Australian collaboration , the Woomera Rocket Range was established in 1947 in the South Australian desert west of Adelaide with a telemetered track over the uninhabited heart of the continent to the Indian Ocean 1,250 miles away to the north west . |
| 7 | Stoke-on-Trent , the ‘ Potteries ’ and the lovely Peak District are an hour 's drive away to the north . |
| 8 | The dangerous thing is that cliffs fall away to the north without warning , and someone getting lost in thick mist could easily come a cropper . |
| 9 | The piste , marked by oil drums , was completely out of sight , over a mile away to the north . |
| 10 | We had to get back to Crinan by nightfall , over 30 miles away to the North , and time was running out . |
| 11 | A twin-tube torpedo battery covered the entrance to the fjord , and away to the north was a German mobile battery of 105mm guns at Halsor . |
| 12 | Away to the north , curving smoothly , stretched a branch line that Holly could see illuminated by the arc lights . |
| 13 | The Old World was saved and the Realm of Chaos shrank away to the north . |
| 14 | In AD 622 an inhabitant of the west Arabian town of Mecca ( Makkah ) , Muhammad ibn Abdallah , later to be hailed as the prophet and exalted by visions he had experienced , embarked upon his celebrated flight from Mecca to Medina ( Madinah ) , some 350 km away to the north . |
| 15 | Away to the north , Israeli cities had come under fire from Iraq 's Scuds , with Tel Aviv and Haifa being the first targets . |
| 16 | As we run the satellite sequence , you should be able to see a curved band of cloud edging away to the north . |
| 17 | There was a church just to the north of there that had a reputation for being helpful towards homeless people — I 'd try my luck there . |
| 18 | Another interesting site just to the north west of Newent , at Oxenhall , is the remains of the Elmbridge Furnace , near the former Newent Railway Station . |
| 19 | The remainder of L Detachment finally clambered on to the trucks of Jake Easonsmith 's patrol and were taken to the LRDG base at Siwa Oasis , just to the north of the Great Sand Sea . |
| 20 | Some way to the west of Stromboli , and just to the north of Sicily , are the Lipari Islands . |
| 21 | north London suburb , lying just to the north of Clerkenwell . |
| 22 | Further investigation is , however , encouraged by the pattern of coal ranks in coalfields just to the north of the Variscan Front , as shown for instance by National Coal Board maps ( Anon 1960 ) and summarised on Fig. 4 . |
| 23 | Just to the north of the factory Sakata laid out those playing fields , to keep its army of workers shackled to the corporation even in their spare time , until they were made redundant . |
| 24 | This ‘ castle ’ was built in the late 1700s for Richard Arkwright , whose highly mechanised spinning mill just to the north of the cliff made him his fortune , and is now regarded as one of the birthplaces of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 25 | Just to the north of the barn , some sixty yards or so away , were the cliffs and the land thereabouts was overgrown with ferns . |
| 26 | The French kept the two substantial islands now known as Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton Island , just to the north of the peninsula , and also the area of the mainland between the peninsula and the St. Lawrence which is now known as New Brunswick . |
| 27 | It links the original building 's 1928 annex and the 1854 Morgan House , a Victorian mansion just to the north , recently acquired by the trustees for $15 million . |
| 28 | The troops led by Gneisenau , on emerging from Plancenoit , turned onto the Brussels to Charleroi road just to the north of Le Caillou . |
| 29 | The availability of work at terminals just to the north led to a much greater increase in construction workers ( 82% compared with 18% ) in the western sector ( KW14.7 ) than in the eastern sector ( KW 14,8 ) , so that by 1981 their levels had become similar . |
| 30 | Just to the north of the village there is a bridge over the Emme that is a particularly interesting example of the characteristic rural Swiss timber-built covered bridge . |