Example sentences of "to the south " in BNC.

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1 Unfortunately , even these modest advances apply only to the south of Sri Lanka , the primary focus of Amnesty 's campaign last autumn .
2 So are big ones : Claire was going to the south of France .
3 To the south across the Rive Tyne lay Gateshead Borough Police , a small force with less manpower and fewer resources than our unit in the city .
4 One of the innovations of the decade , introduced in 1987 , is the series of cross-country trains from the North West to the South Coast via Kensington Olympia .
5 The May 1986 timetable saw the introduction of a new cross–London service from North West England to the South East .
6 In the morning , after an early breakfast of freshly picked mushrooms , Graham , myself and our hangovers ventured to the south side of the Mull .
7 We were in Kenya , and our buffalo encounter was in the Leroghi Hills , a small range to the south of Lake Turkana , the ‘ Jade Sea ’ of John Hillaby 's book .
8 You do n't have to be climbing in the high E-grades to enjoy a visit to the south of France .
9 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 .
10 Nevertheless the peninsula is remote — there are deep sea lochs on either side , Loch Nevis ( meaning Heaven ) to the south has a mild protected climate , Loch Hourn ( meaning Hell ) to the north is far less hospitable .
11 An immediate tactical decision was taken to send the Task Force to the South Atlantic .
12 Non-League Notebook : Historical twist to the South Bank show
13 Sea pinks cling to the lichen-covered rocks and huge beech trees , carved into oblique shapes by the wind , stand defiantly along the length of the bay and , to the south , on the slopes of Greenanmore where the kings of Dalriada had their summer residence .
14 I cast my mind back to the South Coast of England .
15 The Allied artillery appeared to have moved to the south of Bavent and are concentrating their barrages during the hours of darkness , and the early morning , between three and four o'clock .
16 The Bolsheviks clung to Tambov town and prevented any contact with Makhno to the south in the Ukraine , or with Sapozhkov , another peasant rebel , on the Volga .
17 In the past some craft-trading had been carried on beyond the vicinity , but this and nearly all other economic ties with the Ukraine to the south and their fellow Great Russians to the north had stopped .
18 Let us now leave the Great Russians of the Kursk guberniia and move out of the hills to the south of Nikol'skaia volost' .
19 In 1922 the percentage of households without even a plough was 32.7 in the Central Industrial Region , 33.6 in the Siberian guberniia of Omsk , and 55.8 in the guberniia of Tsaritsyn to the south of Saratov .
20 The proposals would take the bypass to the south of the town , which would involve a major new road and two river crossings of the River Usk .
21 The nearest island , Ramsey , is a nature reserve with superb seal and seabird colonies while to the south are the seabird islands of Skokholm and Skomer .
22 Milford Haven lies to the south with the Bristol Channel and Lundy Island beyond .
23 The views are stunning , looking to the sea over the Kyle of Tongue , to Ben Hope dominating the west and the wilderness of North Sutherland stretching away almost infinitely to the south .
24 The only bombs that fell within Berlin 's city limits destroyed a summer house in the suburb of Rosenthal , other bombs falling on farmland to the south of Berlin .
25 In particular Ramsey helped the Anglo-Catholic members of the Conference to take a more friendly attitude to the South India Church , which united a Church with bishops to Churches without bishops in a unified structure over a period of years .
26 To the south of this zone , where tree cover becomes more dense in the Guinea-savannah , population densities are particularly low and there is plenty of scope for inward migration .
27 That night we stayed in the town as our flight was too early the next day to get to the airport from the good country to the south .
28 I peer into the rain for a glimpse of Storskarfjell , but it is all wet misery to the south .
29 The loss of the dog means that we cut short our projected trip north , and go down into Dividalen , to the south .
30 An attached shed to the south of the barn was demolished , and the architect , Timothy Bruce-Dick , decided to infill the gap between the barn and a range of cow-houses which existed to the north with a two-storey structure which would act as a covered link to this northern wing and provide a playroom over garages ( Fig 38 and Plate 4 ) .
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