Example sentences of "[noun pl] to the south " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These were mainly to be found in Kovno , Grodno and Vil'na , the three north-western provinces to the south of the Baltic littoral . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If the Tigers can clear other Muslim communities to the south , they will have established a safe corridor between the Serbian and the Bosnian capitals . |
| 9 | The western Mediterranean , however , is quite different , having alpine folds to the south as well as to the north . |
| 10 | While America , Canada and Mexico equivocate over the North American Free Trade Agreement , there is a new enthusiasm about open trade among countries to the south . |
| 11 | As my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has said many times , we should work as hard as we can in the heart of Europe to lead our partners away from the cause of Euro-dirigism and Euro-protectionism , which if allowed to develop under the influence of Madame Cresson and such people would render the entire Community less competitive in global markets and blight the prospects of the developing countries to the south and east of the existing Community . |
| 12 | Goods would be unloaded at Lindau , taken across the Bodensee to Rorschach , and from there go on through the passes to the south , to Milan or on to Venice for further shipment . |
| 13 | ‘ The Singing Kettle ’ has opened its lid to thousands of children in Germany , USA , Canada , Ireland , Australia and Hong Kong as well as in theatres throughout Britain including two visits to the South Bank in London and , for three years in succession , they appeared at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre , Stratford . |
| 14 | The whole detachment set off on 15 March from Siwa in the trucks of John Olivey 's Rhodesian patrol , heading for the Jebel mountains to the south of Benghazi , a journey of 400 miles . |
| 15 | A few years ago , we were walking in the mountains to the south of Loch Tummel , heading for a tiny water called Loch a'Chait , a hard tramp uphill from Lick . |
| 16 | And so into the last , and smallest , of the three Basque provinces , La Soule , itself divisible into two parts , of the Upper and the Lower Soule , the first hard against the barrier of the high mountains to the south , the second relatively flat and bordering on Béarn . |
| 17 | Argeĺes is undeniably a centre , near enough to the towns to the north and the great valleys and mountains to the south to suggest itself as a place to stay . |
| 18 | On the way up to the col from Luz you come first to the small resort and spa of Barèges , one street wide and squeezed tightly in in true spa style between the mountains to the south and the river to the north . |
| 19 | It is known as the Baronnies and fills the top half of a triangle formed by the main roads which run south from Bàgneres and from La Barthe-de-Neste and which cross the mountains to the south at the Col d'Aspin . |
| 20 | Somewhere amongst the ochrous jumble of mountains to the south Moses had received the Ten Commandments . |
| 21 | It is flanked by a dramatic ridge of mountains to the south , white-clad needle points that are silhouetted against the blue sky . |
| 22 | Uneven development , and in particular the decline of the older industrialized regions , was therefore intensified by policies of corporate restructuring , which moved many non-productive functions to the south . |
| 23 | MacLachlan led the Hurricanes up to 22,000 feet to the South of Comino where four Messerschmitts were seen coming straight at them . |
| 24 | In addition I think there 's some inconsistency , because within Selby district , for example , a lot of development which has been advocated in the past and is likely to be allocated in the future is in places like Selby or Sherburn in Elmet , which again are much nearer to Leeds erm than potential new settlement sites to the South and South , South West of York , and yet objection has been raised to er that particular erm element in the planning strategy for Selby , and I I ca n't see the reason why a new settlement should be treated in any different way to any other form of development in that sense . |
| 25 | According to analyses based on the 1983 Labour Force Survey , migration 's role in swelling the South 's labour force was then restricted to non-manual workers ; though unemployment rates for manual workers were markedly higher in the North than the South , there was no net migration of manual workers to the South ( Hughes and McCormick , 1987a ) . |
| 26 | There his reputation as an administrator and expository bibliographer increased with the publication of reports and papers on the library and its educational role , and with his contributions to the south Wales press , the Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society , which he served as treasurer ( 1910–24 ) , and Y Cymmrodor . |
| 27 | First , there was an exodus of thousands of Catholics to the south , where they became the most implacable opponents of the Communist north . |
| 28 | The thin man said Crane should be left to make his own way so that the rest of them could ride as fast as they could down one of the tracks to the south . |
| 29 | The ridge presents its craggy face to the north and rolls away in steep , but somewhat tamer , banks to the south . |
| 30 | The Germans were also exploring the quality of resistance in the North , and looking on Scotland , with its coasts so close to Scandinavia , as a possible ‘ soft option ’ for raids and attacks to the south . |