Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] to the south " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were mainly to be found in Kovno , Grodno and Vil'na , the three north-western provinces to the south of the Baltic littoral . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The surrounding volcanic cones are gently sloping with few gullies to the south , but increasingly steep and heavily gullied towards the north . |
| 4 | CORE was launched in 1980 to oppose the importing of foreign spent nuclear fuel through the docks at Barrow-in-Furness , forty miles to the south of the site . |
| 5 | Forty miles to the south , the Dragoon Lieutenant who had been kicked by his dying horse haemorrhaged in the nettles beside the ditch . |
| 6 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 7 | A few miles to the south east of New Mills , east of Hillesley , stands the lovely little mill at Kilcott . |
| 8 | There were no high walls to the south , only a fence to separate the grounds from the woods and the river . |
| 9 | The importance of Stonyditch Point as the end of the spit for a long period is emphasised by the position of Orford , which was well situated as a port when the Ness ended at Stonyditch Point and not in its present position some miles to the south . |
| 10 | She finally heard that a dairyman some miles to the south needed a good milkmaid for the summer . |
| 11 | Oxford with its splendid college buildings , theatres and museums is 30 miles to the south . |
| 12 | The western Mediterranean , however , is quite different , having alpine folds to the south as well as to the north . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And indeed I would insist on this : the first requirement for a study of Pound is a set of maps ( preferably half an inch to the mile ) of at any rate certain regions of France , Italy and England ; the second requirement is a set of Michelin Green Guides for France and Italy , and ( if one is American ) similar guides to the South of England . |
| 15 | The Great Barrier Reef stretches from the extreme north-east of Australia , down past Queensland 's Daintree forest and undeveloped coast , to peter out some 2,000 kilometres to the south . |
| 16 | Today the activities of 9,000 students and 1,000 staff are accommodated not only in the parkland campus of 330 acres surrounding the Trent Building but also within the adjacent Medical School and University Hospital and in the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences some 10 miles to the south . |
| 17 | Forward scouts came back to inform that the English might had reached Cheswick , a mere six miles to the south , and its vanguard would be before Berwick in a few hours . |
| 18 | The force-landed in the Saudi desert at dawn , a 100 miles to the south of Bahrain and the starboard undercarriage leg collapsed . |
| 19 | The first leg of our journey was to Abri , a village on the river almost 100 miles to the south . |
| 20 | If you put the two together erm you i it becomes understandable why they , they adopted these policies to the south , even though sort of from what happened the first time particularly in a retrospective way , the expectation would be you would , this would be the are where you would go for land reform straight away . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 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 | Under the scheme holders of government bonds could choose to exchange them for South Sea Company shares , and the government would pay interest on these bonds to the South Sea Company at a lower rate than it paid previously — the South Sea Company was doing much the same thing as the East India Company , providing the government with a loan at a reduced rate of interest in exchange for overseas trading privileges . |
| 24 | The second complex is at The King 's Buildings about three kilometres to the south of George Square . |
| 25 | In the 18 years 1798–1815 inclusive , for each million tons sold there were 0.62 explosions and approximately 11 deaths ; in 1817–1834 inclusive the cost was 0.68 explosions , a 10 per cent increase , but with the loss of only 8.7 lives : for 1839–1844 , this had fallen further to 6.5 lives , But the three periods are not easily comparable ; the new production came not from the old collieries described but from new and ever deeper ones to the south and east made accessible after 1815 by steam-and-gravity operated railways . |
| 26 | It was always a Russian ( and later a Soviet ) ambition , for instance , to acquire warm-water ports to the south , and to develop a network of client states in Eastern Europe to strengthen the country 's defences against the other continental powers . |
| 27 | It is Stille 's boundary between " Palaeo-Europe " and " Meso-Europe " , with gently folded late Palaeozoics to the north and strongly folded late Palaeozoics to the south . |
| 28 | Further north in Staffordshire the ancient market town of Lichfield founded in 1149 on the line of one of the main London to Chester roads , declined into cosy respectability as the new Holyhead road was diverted sixteen miles to the south . |
| 29 | The Trans-Siberian railway bypassed Tomsk some sixty miles to the south . |
| 30 | And because the Baronnies are full of deep valleys , the prospect keeps changing from near to far , with enormous views to the south when you are in some of the high places . |