Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] south " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | One of the first things we do , after settling in — we show up at this little garage or car cemetery a few blocks south . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | The Seychelles lie in the middle of the Indian Ocean , just a few degrees south of the equator . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | A few miles south from Bettyhill , named after the infamous Countess Duchess of Sutherland , is another notable Strathnaver memorial . |
9 | A few miles south , Vindolanda was the home of 500 Roman auxiliary soldiers . |
10 | Toftingall , which lies a few miles south from the village of Watten , was one of the first Caithness lochs we fished . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | A few miles south of Cambridge , and just as accessible from London , is Audley End House which is well worth a detour . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | When south of the Mandovi , I stayed in the simpler Prainha Cottages , just a few miles south of Panjim ( Prainha , Dona Paula , tel : 8325917 ) . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | They were in Carlisle , just a few miles south of the Scottish-English border . |
21 | A few miles south of Meikleour , can be found the point at which the River Isla adds its weight . |
22 | A ‘ Green machine ’ — a British Gas South Western sponsored Escort van , which runs on natural gas — has been presented to the Bristol Energy Centre . |
23 | The Dovrefjell is a high plateau south of Trondheim . |
24 | In 1974 , during a second visit south of the seventeenth parallel , we crossed into some of the areas most affected by the herbicides , areas such as A Luoi and A Sau , in the west of Thua Thien province , and Kom Tum , Gia Lai and Dac Lak on the high plateau Tay Nguyen . |
25 | A Central News South crew has been given unprecedented access to film at the Buckinghamshire Prison . |
26 | Available evidence confirms sorry first of all the increase in the provision of affordable dwellings identified by this monitoring survey er is not being maintained , so there is a national problem South East regional problem field and in our own er monitoring report on housing development and population change we say four point seven two available evidence confirms the existence of a social housing problem in West Sussex and surveys studies suggest it is significant and that table on page forty items , gives you the precise er application position erm it is I think erm just . |
27 | I hired my boat on Faarsay — that 's a little island south of Mull — and they 'd heard about Mrs Hamilton , but they did n't know my folks , so no one told me our house was let . ’ |
28 | She had booked a sleeper from Paris in terms of time — " I ca n't sit up all night " — not distance " I am going a long way south . " |
29 | ‘ We have to go a long way south before we get to Alaska , ’ he said . |
30 | A long way south a plump caique thudded past towing a line of six little lamp-boats , like a mallard with ducklings . |