Example sentences of "[noun pl] to the north " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon afterwards fires were blazing on every rooftop in the village , and in every shrine all around its outskirts to the north , the south , the east and the west : in the fields , at the crossroads , by the river , in the forest . |
| 2 | Now she swayed on the towering waves to the north , and glittering on her prow were the slim copper tubes that had faced the ship of the Order that had brought them all from Rhodes to Cyprus . |
| 3 | The bodies lay north and south , heads to the north and all except one were buried face downwards , the skulls being in good condition but the bones decayed . |
| 4 | Cer certainly it would be other sectors to the north of York can can draw some comfort from from that the the comment that I 've made as well . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Firstly , it may have been masked by the salt movement effects described above or , secondly , it may be an indication that some of the central areas have undergone less Hercynian uplift than the flanking areas to the north and east . |
| 7 | The town 's morphology can for convenience be considered in two sections , first the defended enclosure and the extra-mural suburbs south of the river ( fig. 18 ) , and second the extra-mural areas to the north and west ( fig. 20 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And even looking at that one , erm erm the south west location , one would have to say that the increased accessibility erm which will shortly be afforded by the dualling of the northern section erm of the York outer relief road , er would increase the accessibility of areas to the north east of erm er of Greater York er to West Yorkshire . |
| 10 | The main distinction I think you will find when you tour round Greater York is is that the distinction is between areas of intensive agriculture where of course you have the w which is to the west and to the south of the city , where you in fact have the highest quality of agricultural land , and the areas to the north where you have the lower quality agricultural land and therefore you have greater retention of cover . |
| 11 | ‘ In the old ruins to the north of the Tower . |
| 12 | Evidence suggests that the virus was introduced into this vulnerable environment by long-distance lorry drivers transporting goods from Natal 's ports to neighbouring countries , and by refugees from countries to the north which have more widespread epidemics of AIDS . |
| 13 | Innovations in this area could lead to a positive flow of information from developing countries to the North . |
| 14 | The weather broke overnight and it blew hard from the south east for the following week which , while postponing our patrols to the north islands , was no great setback to our plans . |
| 15 | By the end of the month fighting between the two factions to the north and west of Monrovia resulted in more than 1,500 deaths , including that of an International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) worker and an ECOMOG ( ECOWAS Monitoring Group ) soldier . |
| 16 | The City Council examines travel patterns from settlements around York , and it was quite noticeable that a number of settlements to the north east of York did actually have a substantial commuting pattern to West Yorkshire . |
| 17 | So I mean , Mr is quite correct in saying there 's already a significant er commuting movement between settlements to the north of York and and Leeds . |
| 18 | News film of the General Assembly disturbance shows much shouting and placard waving but nothing that comes near the sort of heckling and barracking to which present-day government ministers are regularly subjected in visits to the north of England ! |
| 19 | I have seen that myself in visits to the north . |
| 20 | Initially the South responded cautiously to the Northern invitation to reciprocate : South Koreans who undertook unofficial visits to the North were subject to long terms of imprisonment under the country 's National Security Law . |
| 21 | These were ( i ) the abolition of the draconian National Security Law relating to sedition and espionage ; ( ii ) admission of a North Korean " consolation " delegation to visit three South Korean dissidents imprisoned under the National Security Law for having made unauthorized visits to the North ; and ( iii ) the authorization of South Korean dissidents to attend a pro-unification rally due to be held in Panmunjom on Aug. 15 , the anniversary of Korean liberation from Japanese colonial rule . |
| 22 | These were ( i ) the release of South Korean dissidents imprisoned for making unauthorized visits to the North ; ( ii ) termination of the annual South Korean-US " Team Spirit " military exercises ; and ( iii ) an end to South Korea 's attempts to achieve unilateral entry to the United Nations . |
| 23 | Both sides reiterated their established positions ( within which there was little common ground ) , and the North also outlined three preconditions for further progress : ( i ) the scrapping of Team Spirit ; ( ii ) no separate UN membership for the Korea states [ but see pp. 38191 ; 38437 ] ; and ( iii ) the release of those imprisoned in the South for having made unauthorized visits to the North . |
| 24 | And so it was all along the line , from Telnitz in the south , right the way to the Olmütz road , where the plain rose into the foothills of the mountains to the north ; and after he had disappeared into the tumult and light , neither Thiercelin nor Epitot spoke for a long time . |
| 25 | In summer , the People drive off the highway up the track leading to the Silberner Hirsch , with its fine view of the mountains to the north . |
| 26 | ‘ With sea views to the south and the Monchique mountains to the north , this is a delightful stretch of countryside . |
| 27 | As he rode down the narrow goat-trails of the Khyber Pass , Battuta would have known that the Delhi Sultanate was violent frontier country , constantly in a state of war with the pagan Mongols to the north and the infidel Hindus to the south . |
| 28 | Analogies to the North Atlantic Oscillation , the much cited ocean-circulation link to climate , can not apply over such distances . |
| 29 | For the reasons outlined above the County Council remains of the opinion that the two sites to the north of Skelton should be excluded from the greenbelt and included within the Skelton village inset . |
| 30 | You say that the District Council believes that the two sites to the north of Church Lane Skelton should be excluded from the greenbelt and included in the inset for the village . |