Example sentences of "to the east " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Duke held up his branch like a banner and began to lead the way along to the east gate , but a large part of the crowd stayed in a half-circle round the group at the table , as though waiting for the victor 's crow in the cockfight . |
| 2 | This natural phenomenon has forced human occupation , by all races since Canada was first inhabited , not just her French colonisation in the 16th century , into its disparate parts and localities , a situation further exacerbated by the Appalachians to the east and the Cordilleras to the west . |
| 3 | To the east , management within NSE was assisted by the creation on 29 April of a new Anglia Region covering lines serving Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street stations . |
| 4 | Delivery of the final members of the class was still taking place at the end of the decade , but the early members had by then settled into their routine of West Coast InterCity push-pull passenger duties with similarlooking new driving van trailers at the opposite end , plus freights from the North to the East Coast ports via the newly electrified North London link . |
| 5 | There is a distinct style to the wheat beers made in South Germany , especially the state of Bavaria , and notably the region to the east of Munich . |
| 6 | Far to the east , on the very borders of Europe and Asia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea , a range of mountains of great beauty and ultra-alpine dimensions holds a central knot of peaks 1,000 metres higher than almost anything in the Alps . |
| 7 | But then when she realised this , she offered to go to the east summit with me . |
| 8 | Anyone who opens before him Carte Michelin No. 75 , can see the places named , related just as Pound says : Chalais , on the main line from paris to Bordeaux ; Aubeterre in the valley of the Dronne , twelve kilometres to the east ; then thirty kilometres north-eastward a little place called La Tour Blanche ; and perhaps fifteen kilometres further , just on the edge of the map , Vieux-Mareuil . |
| 9 | They have surrounded a garrison at Bati , to the east , and on 19 September they attacked Mile on the Assab road , closing it for 36 hours . |
| 10 | ( First Edition ) DRAMATIC evidence of the First Century AD Jewish revolt against Rome , which led up to the famous siege and mass suicide of Masada , has been unearthed by Israeli archaeologists in the desert to the east of Jerusalem . |
| 11 | Far to the East , a young man emerges dripping from the river Neisse on the border between East Germany and Poland . |
| 12 | The postwar generation , unschooled in the brutality of hardships of war and reconstruction , compares its lot with that of West Germans , with double their standard of living , rather than with their neighbours to the East , to whom the mountains of sausages and pigs ' trotters in butchers ' shops would seem like a dream come true . |
| 13 | You would be better spending a weekend in Antwerp , about 15 miles to the east , less well preserved architecturally but with more comprehensive museums and galleries , and much more the feel of a ‘ real ’ town . |
| 14 | In the long term , all West Germany 's Western neighbours and partners would feel a great deal more relaxed about a coming-together of the two Germanies if her immediate neighbours to the East were capitalist democracies , themselves gradually integrating into a larger Western European community . |
| 15 | The impact of tourism stops pretty soon outside the medieval walls of the town , and the dwellings are like those of any impoverished fishing village in Cornwall , Sicily or Provence : low , simple buildings containing no more than the most primitive necessities , but opening on to the turquoise bay , with the Venetian walls on the western side and red cliffs to the east . |
| 16 | A kolkhoz to the east of Smolensk city in the Dorogobuzhskii raion complained that in 1921 its two shefi , a nearby hospital , and a regiment , had helped with the harvest , but no one had visited it in 1922 . |
| 17 | The Welsh Office are proposing the construction of a bypass to Crickhowell , an attractive small town to the east of the Park . |
| 18 | From the heights of Foel-cwmcerwyn , just to the east , you are supposed to be able to see Exmoor , Snowdonia and the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland . |
| 19 | This connection hints again that Fitzgerald led Eliot to the East , and that his reading in the history of religion affected his view of nineteenth-century poetry . |
| 20 | The lesser-known areas are also very good — Herdubreid , around the very dangerous mountain of the same name and the Askja volcanic area ; Hornstrandir at the extreme north-west tip , beyond Drangajökull , an area of superb walking and bird cliffs ; and Jökulsárgljúfur , to the east of Akureyri . |
| 21 | But before you go that way — real joy lies at the end of each bus trip to the east -it is compulsory , or so you might think , to visit Þingvellir . |
| 22 | Just after midnight on 23 January 1973 a 2 kilometre-long fissure opened to the east of Heimæy , the town on the island of the same name , the largest of Vestmannæyjar ( the Westmann Islands ) off Iceland 's southern edge . |
| 23 | It skirts the Sareks National park to the east , reaches Kebnekaise and ends at Abisko . |
| 24 | Other treks cross the two fine Arctic National Parks , Uhro Kekkonen to the east , and Lemmenjoki park in the north , a park that links with the Øvre Anarjokka Park that lies in Norway , to the east of Kautokeino , capital of Norwegian Lappland . |
| 25 | Other treks cross the two fine Arctic National Parks , Uhro Kekkonen to the east , and Lemmenjoki park in the north , a park that links with the Øvre Anarjokka Park that lies in Norway , to the east of Kautokeino , capital of Norwegian Lappland . |
| 26 | As we travel to the east , therefore , these events occur earlier and , on a westward journey , they take place progressively later . |
| 27 | Countries to the east of us are in time zones with local time that is ahead of GMT , whereas local time and the time zones to the west are delayed with respect to ours . |
| 28 | for example , when it is 4 o'clock in the afternoon ( 1600 ) — in England , it is 11 o'clock in the morning ( 1100 ) in New York ( 5 time zones to the west ) , 8 o'clock in the morning ( 0800 ) in Los Angeles ( 8 time zones to the west ) , 8 o'clock in the evening ( 2000 ) in Abu Dhabi ( 4 time zones to the east ) , and midnight ( at the end of the day ) in Singapore ( 8 time zones to the east ) . |
| 29 | for example , when it is 4 o'clock in the afternoon ( 1600 ) — in England , it is 11 o'clock in the morning ( 1100 ) in New York ( 5 time zones to the west ) , 8 o'clock in the morning ( 0800 ) in Los Angeles ( 8 time zones to the west ) , 8 o'clock in the evening ( 2000 ) in Abu Dhabi ( 4 time zones to the east ) , and midnight ( at the end of the day ) in Singapore ( 8 time zones to the east ) . |
| 30 | Advice on time-zone transitions depends very much upon the kind of journey being made , so we consider the following possibilities : • A flight crossing only a few ( one or two ) time zones ; • A flight crossing several time zones , ( to the west or east ) and when the stop-over , before returning home , is short ; • A flight crossing several time zones to the west where there is sufficient time and need for adjustment to the new time zone ; • A flight as in the last example , but to the east . |