Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] south " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , even while the treaties were being negotiated , Henry was seizing Scottish shipping , demanding the queen 's person , trying to bully Arran into handing over the Scottish castles south of the Forth into English hands , considering setting up Arran as a client king . |
| 2 | In a situation report at 2300 hrs that evening , the Brigade 's Intelligence Officer Capt Nigel Nicolson recorded : " In dealing with the surrender of the German troops south of the River Drau , the Grenadiers are faced with one of the most formidable problems yet encountered . |
| 3 | Outside the defences , interesting contrasts emerge in the extra-mural zones south of the river . |
| 4 | The town 's morphology can for convenience be considered in two sections , first the defended enclosure and the extra-mural suburbs south of the river ( fig. 18 ) , and second the extra-mural areas to the north and west ( fig. 20 ) . |
| 5 | Others , who came year after year , went north to the sheep sales for leftovers , driving the bleating creatures south to be skinned and boiled down . |
| 6 | She sang along with the radio as she drove up through Gloucestershire and crossed into Wales by way of Abergavenny and Brecon , then took the road north towards Builth Wells , to the wooded hills south of the town where Penry 's house occupied a vantage point above the River Wye . |
| 7 | The Slavs first appeared in the Balkans in the late fourth century AD as marauders who raided the Romanised settlements south of the Danube from their temporary resting place in Hungary . |
| 8 | The nearest a Palestinian in Lebanon can go to his former family home in what is now Israel is likely to be the orange orchards south of Tyre or the east bank of the Jordan river . |
| 9 | Northern Europe eventually established a Gothic style which was different from that in the warmer countries south of the Alps and the Pyrenees . |
| 10 | The warmer regions south and east of the Ukraine are unfortunately the driest . |
| 11 | The Iraqi government on Sept. 1 reinforced its orders directing the air force to keep away from the air exclusion zone enforced by the Western allies south of the 32nd parallel [ see p. 39069 ] , and instructed ground forces not to fire at Western aircraft . |
| 12 | Moves to organise an U17 County competition within the London Group were not unanimously supported ; but the four counties south of the Thames ( Surrey , Sussex , Kent and Hampshire ) intend to play informally as part of a progression towards colts county rugby . |
| 13 | Also known as Alphabet City , or Loisaida to the Hispanics whose numbers dominate the area , it lies a few blocks north of Little Italy , the spiritual home of the Mafia , and a few blocks south of the East Village , where New York beatniks gave birth to our modern global drug subculture . |
| 14 | One of the first things we do , after settling in — we show up at this little garage or car cemetery a few blocks south . |
| 15 | The mine , owned by Carnon Consolidated , a subsidiary of Rio Tinto-Zinc , is a few kilometres south west of Truro near the tiny village of Baldhu . |
| 16 | The most important river in the region is the Marne which starts life in dramatic surroundings a few kilometres south of Langres , not far from the magnificent Château le Pailly . |
| 17 | A few feet south of the CBR entrance was a side entrance to the hotel leading down to a beer parlour on one side and the spacious Hotel Cafeteria on the other . |
| 18 | The Seychelles lie in the middle of the Indian Ocean , just a few degrees south of the equator . |
| 19 | Henry VIII impressed the Continent , in the midsummer of 1520 , at the ‘ Field of the Cloth of Gold ’ held a few miles south of Calais , and which lasted four weeks with jousts , summit talks , banquets and entertainment . |
| 20 | A few miles south from Bettyhill , named after the infamous Countess Duchess of Sutherland , is another notable Strathnaver memorial . |
| 21 | A few miles south , Vindolanda was the home of 500 Roman auxiliary soldiers . |
| 22 | Toftingall , which lies a few miles south from the village of Watten , was one of the first Caithness lochs we fished . |
| 23 | A few miles south from Brora , past the Duke of Sutherland 's monstrous French-château fantasy castle at Dunrobin , is the town of Golspie , whose name derives from the old gaelic word meaning the ‘ place of the strangers ’ and although evidence is sparse , it is thought that the strangers in question were Vikings . |
| 24 | The horse-drawn Whitby and Pickering Railway of George Stephenson ( q.v. ) required the building of the Moorgate bridge in 1835 , a few miles south of this village on the North York Moors . |
| 25 | A few miles south of Cambridge , and just as accessible from London , is Audley End House which is well worth a detour . |
| 26 | When you visit the ancient university town of Cambridge and enjoy the historic college buildings along the River Cam , you should not fail to travel a few miles south to Audley End House in neighbouring Essex . |
| 27 | Listening to the autumn wind moaning across this corner of the sparse Northumberland coastline a few miles south of Berwick-upon-Tweed , where Nora Simpson had lived for all of her married life , their memories of her were vivid . |
| 28 | When south of the Mandovi , I stayed in the simpler Prainha Cottages , just a few miles south of Panjim ( Prainha , Dona Paula , tel : 8325917 ) . |
| 29 | When Gerard Salvin wanted redress against the men who had attacked his house at Croxdale , just a few miles south of Durham itself , it was Gloucester to whom he appealed . |
| 30 | The following year , however , the Party took what was perhaps its most momentous decision in the mountains a few miles south of the Chinese border . |