Example sentences of "north of [noun prp] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My problems were : I had a body in the bath right behind me , a girl I 'd known for less than twenty-four hours in a bed in the next room , I was staying in the house of somebody I 'd never met who was currently at a family wedding somewhere north of Karachi and somewhere down the yellow brick road I had to call the cops . |
| 2 | Fewer people desire to live in the north of England and even fewer in northern Scotland . |
| 3 | It is clear that the North of England and especially Scotland contributed to the large advance of 1792 over 1788 . |
| 4 | ‘ Even though it was the rise of Nazism that eventually prompted me to write A Child of Our , the scapegoats of the North of England and especially the effect on the children remained very much in my mind . ’ |
| 5 | The new scheme , Safe-Buy UK , was started two years ago in the north of England and only reputable home improvement companies , who are able to meet a series of straight standards , are eligible for membership . |
| 6 | Well it 's north of Killinghall and therefore travelling in towards the town seeking to go round is what you 're saying . |
| 7 | It has the most concentrated design community north of London and over 70 local companies were consulted on the development of this new course . |
| 8 | On Thursday 6 October 1715 Derwentwater and Forster , with a mere 60 horsemen , occupied Rothbury in central Northumberland , a small market town about 27 miles [ 44 km ] north of Newcastle and about 14 [ 23 km ] from the Scottish border . |
| 9 | What is more , it is also exactly like the cliff sections in the Isker gorge , north of Sofia and elsewhere in Bulgaria , at the other end of Europe ( figure I.I ) . |
| 10 | The intra-Christian fighting of the first half of 1990 did not result in any tangible changes in territorial control over the enclave ; the LF maintained control of Jounieh and Jubail areas to the north of Beirut as well as the East Beirut quarters of Ashrafieh and Karantina , while Aoun held on to the area around the Baabda Presidential palace , where he himself was based , and around Ras al Metn and the southern entrances to East Beirut . |
| 11 | While researching a book on the history of Arabia he was struck by the lack of early material , and while searching for place names of non-Arabic origin in a gazetteer recently produced in Riyadh , he found that nearly all the Biblical place names from the patriarchal period were concentrated in a small area of the Red Sea north of Yemen and far south of the traditional sites in Palestine . |