Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] to the north " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was drawn to him like a magnet to the north . |
| 2 | It might be considered surprising that the firm refused to supply British Rail with a copy of its report prior to publication , even though much of the information it used was obtained in its capacity as consulting engineers to the BR board in relation to a planning appeal for a location to the north end of the King 's Cross site . |
| 3 | For example , if you are heading for a village to the North , the compass can show you which direction to walk in . |
| 4 | They are trying to prepare themselves for a flight to the North Pole . |
| 5 | External control , whether from abroad or from the South , was widely seen again in the later 1980s as a threat to the North . |
| 6 | There has been racing at York since roman times when horses were matched against each other about a mile to the north of the city . |
| 7 | The island of Blefuscu is only about a kilometre to the north of Lilliput . |
| 8 | He would not have liked to guess her age , had never seen her in anything other than half-light , and knew nothing about her beyond the fact that she came from a village to the north which she had told him , stood in the shadow of the pyramid of Saqqara . |
| 9 | Saint-Jean-de-Luz is built along a bay which makes an unusually regular , shallow curve , from a headland to the north , where the lighthouse is , to the harbour entrance to the south , facing the small , equally bright and characteristically Basque town of Ciboure , which has some really good old houses overlooking the harbour it shares with Saint lean , and where the composer Ravel was born . |
| 10 | ‘ A trio of heroes set out in winter to save the land in a quest to the north . |
| 11 | As is now well known , the thrust and outline of the proposed reforms were announced by Mr Kenneth Clarke , the then Secretary of State for Education and Science in a speech to the North of England Education Conference in early January and by way of a consultation document at the end of that month . |
| 12 | On Nov. 14 , in a speech to the North Atlantic Council ( the highest authority of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — NATO ) , Zhelev suggested holding regular political consultations between Bulgaria , Greece and Turkey . |
| 13 | Their latest exploit to stun and confuse the world involves them embarking upon a mission to the North Pole to place a photo of ELVIS PRESLEY there . |
| 14 | The reason the Parish Council objected to the structure plan was that they considered that the structure plan itself was beginning to represent a statutory commitment a statutory commitment to a road to the north of Knaresborough . |
| 15 | The following year he went even further , saying on a visit to the North : |
| 16 | The stone-built house existed contemporaneously with a remarkably long-lived timber-framed building across a lane to the north , which was not dismantled until towards the end of the fourth century . |
| 17 | If the contour is followed around a curve to the north overlooking Crina Bottom , a dozen more holes will be found . |