Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv] south " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the ethnically mixed Tamil , Moslem and Sinhalese Buddhist areas of eastern Sri Lanka , where inter-group violence since 1990 had effectively led to the creation of a series of mutually hostile ghettoes defended by informal militias , the government blamed the LTTE for three major attacks during April , involving the killing of 11 fishermen off Trincomalee on April 3 , of 17 men , women and children in a village further south on April 14 , and of 22 more on April 20 at Neadalla near Monaragala . |
| 2 | To perform the same task on the other side of the world , the following eleven major seas — all on the continental side of the Andesite Line , all secure on their own tectonic plates — need to be included ( we are proceeding northwards and clockwise , from a point somewhere south of New Zealand ) : the Tasman , Solomon , Coral , Bismarck , Philippine , South China , East China and Yellow Seas , the Seas of Japan and of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea . |
| 3 | This scheme was relatively modest in comparison with many others such as the £7million scheme , for which contracts were this year placed to resignal fifty-six route miles from Cambridge to Royston , Bishop 's Stortford , Fulbourne ( on the line to Newmarket ) and to a point just south of Ely . |
| 4 | When pale imitations of Greece and left-overs of Strawberry Hill Gothic were the norm , suddenly , on a site just south of Salisbury , with ‘ a magnificent view of the cathedral and city with the River Avon winding through … as advantageous a situation as any in England ’ , there sprang up this towered , monastic , miniature Gothic château . |
| 5 | Serbs were using anti-aircraft machineguns with explosive bullets to shoot at buildings in Bosnian-held Grbavica , a district just south of central Sarajevo . |
| 6 | John was on a train just south of Didcot travelling at over ninety miles an hour when he fell out . |
| 7 | The USA on April 10 issued an injunction against Iraq to cease all military activity north of the 36th parallel , encompassing an area bordered by a line just south of Mosul ( but excluding the oil producing area around Kirkuk ) , and reaching up to the border with Turkey . |
| 8 | Extending a lot further south to connect up with Leicester and the border areas there . |
| 9 | We have arrived exactly over the quarter-point from a position slightly south of our line 's origin ( i.e. , from the downwind leg at Gransden ) so must adjust our heading slightly for the next leg to the half-way mark . |