Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the south " in BNC.
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| 1 | Class V2 60815 sets off from Victoria for the south in about 1950 . |
| 2 | The Shias of the south , the Sunnis of Sidon and Tripoli , would not only oppose such a state , but produce more children than the Maronites , who would then be a minority in the country they had created . |
| 3 | , Sir Vernon George Waldegrave ( 1873–1942 ) , intelligence officer , was born in Great Yarmouth 21 November 1873 , the only son of Major Waldegrave Charles Vernon Kell of the South Staffordshire Regiment , who served in a number of Imperial outposts and with distinction in the Zulu wars , and his wife , the daughter of a Polish count named Konarpki , with exiled relatives in other parts of Europe by whom her son was helped to become an accomplished linguist . |
| 4 | We 'll spend the night there , and then , if she 's recovered , we 'll go on in the morning through Lima to Tacna in the south of Peru . |
| 5 | According to consultant Samantha Vandertoorn from The South London Natural Health Centre , the knowledge that you 're about to forget all your troubles in flotation could be just the incentive your body needs to get you to Westminster Bridge . |
| 6 | We are worried about the extent to which Saddam Hussein is still able to inflict hardship and persecution on the peoples of Iraq , both the Kurds in the north and the Shias in the south . |
| 7 | Some appalling things have happened to those poor people , but the plight of the Shias in the south of Iraq matches , and possibly even surpasses , the horrors that those poor people suffered . |
| 8 | This charge was denied on Aug. 11 in a letter sent to UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali ) by the Iranian permanent representative at the UN , Javad Zarif , who described the allegations as an attempt to provide cover for Iraq 's own " systematic campaign to eliminate " the Shias in the south . |
| 9 | In March 1991 his appearance on national television in support of government action against Shias in the south [ see pp. 38081-82 ] had shocked followers . |
| 10 | The mountain , eleven granite peaks rising between the gentle flow of the Dee in the north and the foaming River Muick in the south , was a presence which pulled everlastingly at the primitive senses of the people below it . |
| 11 | First he would have pushed a strong diversionary force at Charleroi , then , when the allies moved to defend Brussels from the south , he would have launched the real attack to the west . |
| 12 | The main areas of fighting were in the north-western provinces of Battambang ( especially in the Sisophon area ) , Banteay Meanchey and Siem Reap-Oddar Meanchey ( especially around Chikreng ) , but the guerrillas , dominated militarily by the Khmer Rouge component , also claimed victories in Kampot and Kompong Speu in the south and in the central provinces of Kompong Chhnang and Kompong Thom , especially around Kompong Svay and Stoung . |
| 13 | It was the first time the church authorities had discussed the issue of the refugees , some 25,000 of whom have entered Hungary from the south over the past year . |
| 14 | In military terms , it has two preoccupations : Belize in the north and the Falklands in the south . |
| 15 | Another , proposed by Guy Ragland Phillips , is the Belinus Line , the longest line which could be plotted on the British mainland , from Lee-on-Solent in the south to Inverhope in the north . |
| 16 | Thus , by the early fifteenth century Ragusa 's authority extended from the delta of the Neretva in the north to the Gulf of Kotor in the south , a distance of 190 km ( 120 miles ) as the crow flies . |
| 17 | At Bridgend Hotel everything was first class grub — rooms — surroundings , but we were knocked up at five o'clock next morning to start by coach at six for Port Ellen in the south of Islay , where we were to join the steamer at half past eight to return home . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A 56 acre Wealden farm with magnificent views across the Weald to the South Downs . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | At Sloch Measach on the south slope of Beinn Tart A Mhill there is the structure of huge stones known as " The Giant 's Grave . " |
| 22 | One large cemetery lay at Boley Hill outside the south gate , consisting chiefly of cremations , although a fragment of a decorated lead coffin has also been found there . |
| 23 | Their efforts raised £113 which was presented to Massie Ibbotson of the South Durham and North Yorkshire branch of the RSPCA . |
| 24 | In Poitou the inhabitants spoke a northern French dialect ; to the south , from Saintonge onwards , the vernacular was Limousin , a dialect of Provençal or Occitan , the language of troubadour poetry and very different from the French of the north , the Langue d'Œuil , as opposed to the Langue d'Oc of the south . |
| 25 | The man at the other end said yes , and how did Mr Dempsey like it , and I said it was wonderful but I had n't ever heard anyone call Venice the Leningrad of the South , and then there was a silence . |
| 26 | The four-month voyage back to England via the South pacific and Cape Horn was spent much in the same way as the outward voyage . |
| 27 | It would run to the north of Eton Wick and the south of Chalvey along the south side of the M4 , crossing the main A355 Slough to Windsor road . |
| 28 | ‘ From Eating to Sleeping ’ — Visitors are invited to take a detailed look into a selection of carriages , with an emphasis on passenger comforts in the early days of the railways , led by Curator of Collections Dieter Hopkin in the South Hall . |
| 29 | On the saturday there are seven-a-side football competitions for youngsters involving 30 or more teams who travel from as far as Newcastle in the North and Wetherby in the South to take part . |
| 30 | On 28 April Alexander was instructed to seize the whole of Venezia Giulia , except for Zadar in the south . |