Example sentences of "to the south " in BNC.
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| 31 | As well as creating enlarged internal accommodation , this treatment also helped to form a sheltered eastern entrance courtyard , the other two sides being a grass bank on the east and a new stone wall to the south . |
| 32 | Place Barn , Wilmington , Polegate , East Sussex Place Barn , Wilmington , is flint-walled barn which was formerly attached to Priory Farm at the head of the hill that leads out of the village to the South Downs . |
| 33 | The waggon door was close to the south end of the barn , serving crop storage areas to either side . |
| 34 | The final alteration came in 1959 when , at long last , internal WCs serving the staff and pupils were added in a single-storey flat-roofed extension to the south . |
| 35 | The Clwydian Hills , rising to the south and cloaked in cloud , looked wonderfully alluring : so I threw myself into the long climb with far more vigour than I might have done normally . |
| 36 | Kevin Ellis of Bridgend flew to the south of France last night to act as emergency cover for the Wales B team 's scrum-half Andrew Booth . |
| 37 | A year ago we won a race at Carlisle , nearer to the south than Kelso , where the first prize was £503 and the horse box alone was £500 . |
| 38 | A Crystal premier villa-with-pool and ferry 14-night package to the south of France , insurance in and discount applied would add up to £1032 . |
| 39 | The magnificent view to the south , from the Boulevard des Pyrenees , built along the bluff above the fast-running Gave de Pau , displayed an inspiring panorama , thousands of miles of rich valley climbing towards the snowcapped Pyrenees . |
| 40 | To the south you look down the steeply falling park to where the river slowly bends around Dittisham on the western bank , and to the west a view cut through the trees shows the river almost encircling the Sandridge promontory , its last wide stretch before it narrows upstream to Totnes . |
| 41 | You can see over Epping Forest to High Beach church , over Shooter 's Hill to the South Downs , and on a clear day , down the shining ribbon of the Thames you can see St Paul 's cathedral . |
| 42 | Tall firs form a copse at the back of the house and great clumps of rhododendrons and laurels surround the lawns to the south , conserving the safe , dark Victorian atmosphere of the place . |
| 43 | At Gill Head , where Cartmel Fell looms huge to the south and the road is dark with overhanging trees , a hidden drive turns sharply towards the lake and suddenly one of the crown jewels of the Arts and Crafts Movement is before you . |
| 44 | The site , on the crest of a hill , is sheltered by a group of scotch firs and to the south an open view extends over Cobham Common … . |
| 45 | From Nevada to Kazakhstan , from Xinjiang to the South Pacific , a test ban would delight the protesting locals . |
| 46 | At every opportunity senior ministers tout the idea of a ‘ growth triangle ’ , with Singapore at the apex , the Malaysian state of Johore to the north , and northern Sumatra and a string of Indonesian islands to the south . |
| 47 | In the end , the Census Bureau expects to find that the total population is about 250m , is getting older , is still moving from the north-east and midwest to the south and west , and that metropolitan areas grew more rapidly in the 1980s than in the 1970s . |
| 48 | They underestimated the ruthlessness with which the Unionists , unhappy at the poverty and popery to the south , would ( with Westminster 's shameful connivance ) exploit their rigged majority in the north to assert the province 's Protestant identity . |
| 49 | Later that morning he was flown to the South West and shown a beautiful industrial site with excellent access to the adjacent port facilities . |
| 50 | It ran , high and level and almost straight , from the north , where its Precipitous crags dropped sheer from the edge , black against the pale , early morning light , to the south , where a jagged lump stood up , breaking its smooth run . |
| 51 | Esau lives in the land of Seir to the south of the Dead Sea . |
| 52 | Thirdly , however , it is likely that the ‘ acquisitive way of life ’ will have operated amongst the middle class , the working class employed in the new expanding consumer industries , and those migrating from the old industrial areas to the South East and the Midlands . |
| 53 | ‘ I left school and went to the South of France and spent a week sleeping on an electricity generator . |
| 54 | In August I stole a sports car and went to the South of France . |
| 55 | They would be in the North Kent grazing marshes , an extension to the South Downs ESA , the Hampshire Avon Valley , the River Burn catchment in Northern Ireland , the North Staffordshire Moors , the whole of Anglesey , the Forest of Bowland near Preston , Orkney and Shetland , and both the Inner and Outer Hebrides . |
| 56 | Or is he secretly selling us to the South ? |
| 57 | Then come a clutch of stout ladies in flat shoes to collect their OBEs for services to different government bureaucracies , and pallid men honoured for ‘ services to ice skating ’ , ‘ to the South Eastern Electricity Board ’ , ‘ to London Regional Transport ’ . |
| 58 | The people divided : Magharba to the north , Zuwaya to the south ; and the committee marshalled the Magharba into the northwesterly quarter ; they set up a teller 's desk near the goalposts , and the voters walked behind the goal-posts ; past a clerk , returning to the pitch where they watched , chatted , and listened to the count . |
| 59 | James III 's idea of soldiering abroad , for example , to win renown and territory in Brittany and the county to the south , Saintonge , and in Guelders , was blocked by resistance at home ; in 1473 parliament tartly pointed out that if renown was what he was after , what he should be doing was ‘ to travel through his realm and put such justice and policy in his own realm that the brute and the fame of him might pass in other countries ’ . |
| 60 | Who , after all , was particularly interested in annexing Scotland , other than her powerful neighbour to the south , to whom she was a threat because of her alliance with France ? |