Example sentences of "[noun] to the south " in BNC.
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| 1 | As is evident in Figure 2.1 this surface shows many irregularities compared with a simple oblate spheroid ; there is , for instance , a bulge of 76 m near New Guinea and a depression of some 104m to the south of India . |
| 2 | The Upper Reik is joined by the Sol to the south of Nuln and continues northwards until it converges with the blue waters of the Aver to form the Reik at Nuln itself . |
| 3 | An immediate tactical decision was taken to send the Task Force to the South Atlantic . |
| 4 | A fascinating example of this , with hindsight at any rate , is the secret despatch , on Churchill 's instructions , of a small task force to the South Atlantic in February-March 1952 after the Argentine dictator , General Peron , had made threatening noises about the Falklands . |
| 5 | A 56 acre Wealden farm with magnificent views across the Weald to the South Downs . |
| 6 | In that case , this would n't be Trastevere but one of the districts to the south where those two lines go , Portuense or EUR . |
| 7 | The Papal State lay wedged like a nut within a giant imperial nutcracker — a small insecure state set within the imperial towns and communes to the north and the tightly-governed Regno to the south . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Notes in Winston Churchill 's files suggested that Britain 's options were either to send a " correct " reply to the South , commiserating with him in declining to advise him , or to encourage him along the American line , or to urge him to undertake an all-out campaign against Mossadeq . |
| 10 | France switched its nuclear programme to the South Pacific in 1966 , and after 44 atmospheric tests it began underground testing in 1975 . |
| 11 | North Korea had decided in May to drop its former insistence on a single Korean seat , following South Korea 's success in gaining assurances that the Soviet Union and China would withdraw their opposition to the South 's entry into the UN . |
| 12 | As well as launching his military counteroffensive against the rebels , Saddam Hussein dispatched a number of his most trusted supporters to the south to rally troops and Ba'athist officials . |
| 13 | In the eleventh century a particularly entrepreneurial abbot began the exploitation of the curative waters of Cauterets to the south , and the monks built roads and bridges and cleared the woods in their expanding domain . |
| 14 | Because there was no sign that Marian and Allen had regained the highway ahead of them the verderers agreed that there were three possibilities : the first , that the children would lie hidden for some time in dense woodland until it was safe for them to return to the ride ; the second , that they would try to work their way around the Swamp to the north but that since they would be away from paths this would be difficult and slow ; and the third , that they might try to reach the outlaws ' camp by passing the Swamp to the south . |
| 15 | Rail travel from the North-East to the South and the Continent will be revolutionised over the next decade by the transformation of King 's Cross and St Pancras stations into one of the country 's biggest-ever civil engineering projects , says BR . |
| 16 | They ran happily across the snow to the south — eight men , seven sledges , and eighty-six dogs . |
| 17 | They had three days to get the boat to the South Coast for Cowes Week . |
| 18 | Such arguments are even more potent in the case of the peripheral regions of Britain which are already suffering from the alleged North-South divide and fear a haemorrhage of business and skilled labour to the South East when the Tunnel is opened . |
| 19 | The site for the new garden had a river frontage to the south , was bounded on the east by Swan Lane , which led to the tavern of that name and on the north by Cox 's Close . |
| 20 | Improved and expanded since opening in the early 70's the marina has matured into a real alternative to the South Coast . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In the communiqué the UN said that the unblocking of international aid to the south of Sudan was a matter of urgency but could only take place if all parties to the conflict there agreed to co-operate with the UN and other humanitarian organizations . |
| 23 | The government on Dec. 15 won by 309 votes to 256 with one abstention a vote of confidence attached to a bill on regional aid to the south . |
| 24 | In Leeds , for example , the middle class suburbs to the north of the city had little in common with Hunslet and Holbeck , the working class townships to the south , where families were packed into rows of back-to-back houses or into cramped folds close to the mills , foundries , railway sidings and other places of work . |
| 25 | These were mainly to be found in Kovno , Grodno and Vil'na , the three north-western provinces to the south of the Baltic littoral . |
| 26 | There was an abandoned city on the coast to the south of the G'bai , and the G'bai itself was almost certainly the result of either a nuclear war or an accident of such proportions that it had produced large-scale volcanic activity . |
| 27 | In Crotone , the former Croton , one of the many rich colonies on the coast to the south , on the Ionian sea to the south of Rupe , Zeuxis painted his most famous commission , for the sanctuary of Hera on the promontory . |
| 28 | GETTING gas from the coast to the South West |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Erm the areas to the south and west of north , that 's erm Harrogate and the Selby sectors , erm , I think are most able to offer erm a good location . |