Example sentences of "[prep] north [noun] the " in BNC.

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1 Unlike North America the involvement of government in economic life has been through the increased regulation of the private sector ; in the U K it has resulted in the public ownership of the industries or utilities concerned .
2 In North America the mighty bison once roamed in tens of millions .
3 In North America the pied Dutch cows were selected for high yield above all and they became specialist milk producers , with a marked difference in size and conformation .
4 In a prehistoric population in North America the time when marked tooth decay ( dental caries ) set in has been pinpointed to around 1150 AD .
5 In North America the audit fee was further cut by taking advantage of a US ruling that allows a group of companies to be treated as one company for the purposes of audit materiality levels .
6 The type of bait used varies : in North America the main items are bread , fish food pellets , feathers or mayflies .
7 In North America the practice among many centres is to undertake angioplasty with an intracoronary thrombolytic agent , usually urokinase , but the impact of this approach remains to be tested .
8 In North America the most famous apple-planter was John Chapman or ‘ Johnny Appleseed ’ .
9 Penguin U K is gaining sale and market share and in North America the sales are only slightly down on last year , which was a very exceptional year anyway .
10 Since in North Rhine-Westphalia the SPD won 38 constituency seats , it was entitled to 24 additional members and these were supplied by the first 24 available candidates on its list .
11 This attack was condemned by the Georgian Supreme Soviet , and in North Ossetia the Supreme Soviet voted in extraordinary session to close the Georgian military highway ( the main route from Russia ) from May 22 and to cut off Georgia 's gas supplies from May 24 .
12 At Alexandra Palace in north London the other side of the burgeoning movement was celebrating the ‘ Technicolour Dream ’ .
13 Aspect is often important in exposed areas in relation to prevailing winds : in North Harris the rare Atlantic liverwort Herbertus aduncus is frequent , but in some areas is more profuse on north-facing slopes , usually around boulders where there is additional shelter .
14 At North Leigh the relieving insets of guilloche etc. appear to be simpler than those at Chedworth .
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