Example sentences of "up in the north " in BNC.

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1 ‘ From there I can get a bus to Sligo Town , in County Sligo , up in the north of the province of Connaught . ’
2 Up in the north , there was the occasional extreme Protestant rumble about the evils of that character ; but in general , the Britain of the seventeenth century was absorbed by more immediate concerns .
3 Her nephew , Tim , was Miss Miggs 's only relative , and he lived a long way away up in the North .
4 Up in the north of the range there is the big Grevy 's zebra , with its very fine , narrow stripes .
5 ‘ My wife and I are both from Yorkshire and I have spent my whole career up in the north . ’
6 Again a reflection of technological backwardness because natural disasters can be controlled with a sufficient investment of resources China is n't able to do that , there are plagues of locusts , there is widespread flooding er there are also , by contrast , periods of severe drought , particularly up in the North China Plain which is at the best of times erm a semi-arid region .
7 A mobile training resource based on the Playtrac model is being set up in the North East by Save the Children , in partnership with Mencap and The Spastics Society .
8 I remember them going to your christening , up in the north somewhere — ’
9 ‘ After all , I was born and brought up in the north of Scotland .
10 For legal support staff , regional training courses were set up in the North West and attended by over 500 staff from throughout the region .
11 er met all those criteria and they had one additional benefit , their Leeds ' base er means that er their centre er their own centre of gravity is very near where I C I 's centre of gravity is , up in the north of England .
12 ‘ They 'll know all about you , of course , but Peter Jennings thinks they 'd rather have you out of the country than poking about up in the north .
13 Windows high up in the north wall gave a diffused light .
14 Then there is the wonderful world of electronic mail , by which this column will pop up in the North Bridge computer within the next few minutes .
15 Then we moved to Sawori and after that Damole up in the north west
16 You mentioned already er over a hundred thousand people have been er displaced by the fighting , and we were able to visit some of these up in the north to , er watch the Cambodian Red Cross hand out some er aid from Oxfam and other agencies .
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