Example sentences of "[vb -s] to the north " in BNC.
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| 1 | More classic Welsh scenery lies to the north as the Way continues on to Cader Idris in the Snowdonia National Park . |
| 2 | Starburn Loch lies to the north of Tibbers Wood , where the ruins of another Douglas stronghold may be found ; Tibbers Castle , destroyed by King Robert I in 1311 , to deny possession of the fortified tower to the English . |
| 3 | My favourite Benbecula loch is Ba Alasdair , at the south end of the island ; it lies to the north of a narrow , twisting track that leads north and then eastwards from the B891 ; about fifteen minutes , easy walk from the road . |
| 4 | The Forest Of Shadows encompasses most of the principality of Ostland and lies to the north of the Middle Mountains . |
| 5 | The break in the line of Akeman Street was not ‘ caused ’ by the growth of Saxon Bicester which actually lies to the north of the road . |
| 6 | ‘ This will be more suitable clothing for whatever lies to the north . ’ |
| 7 | There was a military precision about the grounds and gardens — this avenue , once lined with Dutch Elm lies to the north of the house … where a statue of the first duke overlooks his home — to the south , there was once what was called the military parterre garden — a formal gardens made up of box hedges and gravel walks — now long gone . |
| 8 | More gentle folding and faulting occurs to the north of the Variscan front where Dinantian carbonates host Pb-F-Ba mineralisation in the Northern and Southern Pennine orefields , North Wales and the Mendips . |
| 9 | The west African goldfields of Mali and Songhay probably produced about one-third of the gold in circulation in late medieval Europe.i Leading merchants of the city-states of the savannah maintained important trading links to the north . |
| 10 | There , the coal bearing Carboniferous has been covered later on by Mesozoic and Cainozoic sediments , the thickness of which generally increases to the north . |
| 11 | They described it as Maiwa , " the wall at the side of the world , four moons " sail to the eastward … a land which stretches to the north and to the south without end … beyond the furthest eastward island it lies — a wall of mountains up against the sun " . |
| 12 | The Tibetan Plateau , located between the Himalayan and Karakorum ranges to the south , and the Kunlun and Altyn Tagh ranges to the north , is a roughly triangular area some 1000km from north to south and 1700km from east to west ( Fig. 3.21 ) . |
| 13 | Structures associated with these early phases are coplanar with the dominant regional foliation , which strikes ENE–WNW and dips to the north . |
| 14 | A decrepit footbridge crosses to the north bank . |
| 15 | Waged on the high ground in the Montagne de Reims , between Épernay and the Marne to the south and Reims to the north , there followed one of the most gruelling and protracted battles in human history , the line of trenches moving barely a hundred yards throughout four long and bloody years . |
| 16 | A compass is really a magnetized needle which always points to the North . |
| 17 | Very little of it relates to the north and north-east , although Salvian does describe the sack of Trier . |
| 18 | The double-height entrance lobby leads to a ground-floor gallery which runs to the north end of the barn where it connects with the garages . |
| 19 | When the spring returns to the north the power of the Ice Mages of Kislev wanes , and they are at their weakest at mid summer before it grows again with the coming of winter . |