Example sentences of "the north [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Constitutional Court on Feb. 19 also annulled the electoral results in the North African enclave of Melilla and ruled that fresh elections should take place there within six weeks . |
| 2 | Subsequently , however , the PSOE lost one seat ( to the Popular Party — PP ) in repeat elections in the North African enclave of Melilla on March 25 . |
| 3 | My father , a Desert Rat , tells me that in the North African campaign you never asked a man with a shovel where he was going , so I let Nat go . |
| 4 | The infantry was shielded by a moving barrage laid down by massed artillery , the first of a number of concentrated shoots in which Leslie participated in the North African campaign . |
| 5 | The performance of the 4th Indian Division among the mountains of Tunisia was one of the high points of the North African campaign . |
| 6 | It had been in Essex that , out of discontent with sitting at home , Leslie had requested a posting abroad ; and it was somehow appropriate that it was with the men of Essex that he should have ended the North African campaign . |
| 7 | The biographers of Paddy Mayne quote a veteran of the North African campaign : ‘ We thought it was tough dealing with extremes of heat . |
| 8 | Captain Schott 's report of the trip , originally classified ‘ Most Secret ’ , is one of the few after-action reports to have survived from the SAS in the North African campaign . |
| 9 | I was heartened by this news though Marianne , who has experienced the unpredictable effects of alcohol on the North African male to her cost , was less amused . |
| 10 | The details of his three years ' captivity from the North African desert to the Eastern Front were not spoken of for more than another thirty , other than by occasional scant reference . |
| 11 | THE ENGLISH PATIENT — Michael Ondaatje ( Bloomsbury , £14.99 ) Canada 's finest makes a long-overdue bid for the Booker shortlist with this rich , strange parable set in Italy and the North African desert . |
| 12 | By the time Follow That Camel went before the cameras as the third ‘ Carry On ’ picture that year — filmed ‘ on location ’ with Camber Sands on the then almost freezing Sussex coast , doubling somewhat unconvincingly for the North African desert — the distribution company for the ‘ Carry Ons ’ had changed from Anglo-Amalgamated to the Rank Organization . |
| 13 | Over a million pounds worth of water filtration kit , vital in the North African Desert , but being delivered ast a critical time in relations with the Libyan Government … but that 's not going to stop them . |
| 14 | After their marriage , Mr Williams was posted abroad and served more than six years in several countries , including a spell in the North African desert . |
| 15 | Hot and dry as Spain can be , and despite the flamenco guitars which occasionally steal into the rhythms of the music , Saez has looked further south to find inspiration for Uadi , a dreamy , hypnotic evocation of the North African desert . |
| 16 | The challenges of the North African year were primarily those of planning and organization . |
| 17 | For the North African church had long clung to its own traditions of autonomy with a tenacity which made it a power with which the emperors and popes had to reckon . |
| 18 | No. 11 Commando became involved in fighting the Vichy French in Syria , while No. 8 Commando took part in a few unsuccessful raids along the North African coast , transported into action by the Navy . |
| 19 | The various groups who were to carry out raids along the North African coast gathered at Siwa at the beginning of June , aiming to leave for their targets between the 6th and the 8th of the month escorted by LRDG patrols . |
| 20 | It has always been a fishing village and trawlers from here and from Machico are used for deep-sea and more distant fishing trips such as to the North African coast . |
| 21 | The Wellington was obliged to ditch in the sea off the North African coast due to technical problems , the General and the crew being taken prisoners by the Italians . |
| 22 | At that time we were flying about 4,000 feet about 40 miles off the North African coast . |
| 23 | On the night of 7 November the teams were again off the North African coast ready to flash their signal lights and RG infra-red beams along the limit lines on the flanks of target beaches . |
| 24 | Resolving to ‘ quit all my friends and tear myself away from my home ’ , he headed off along the North African coast in the direction of Mecca , driven onwards by what he described as ‘ an overmastering impulse from within' . |
| 25 | Queens of the North African Bothrio myrmex decapitans take control of colonies of Tapinoma ants . |
| 26 | He brought slaves to their 1,000-acre plantation on St Christopher 's ( 1626 ) , entered the North American–Canadian fur and provisioning trades ( 1631 ) , re-exported tobacco to Europe with an agent in Amsterdam ( 1638–9 ) , and interloped against the Levant and Guinea companies . |
| 27 | Deposits of comparable material which extend from the Ukraine westwards along the foot of the Hercynian uplands of Europe as far as the chalk plateaus of Artois and Picardy , were most likely derived by deflation from the glacial deposits of the North European Plain during the Pleistocene period . |
| 28 | Additional models had been proposed for Northern Europe where a classic sequence of glaciations and interglacials had been proposed based on the investigation of sequences on the North European Plain and in Scandinavia ; in the British Isles ; and in central North America ( Bowen , 1978 ) . |
| 29 | Before the Second World War he was a junior assistant engineer with the North Metropolitan Power Company at Bishops Stortford . |
| 30 | Until July 3 Light of the North An exhibition which marks the 900th anniversary of the death of Saint Margaret |