Example sentences of "just south [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Quiberon is just south of the village of Carnac , where mile-long alleys of menhirs , or standing-stones , erected in prehistoric times , wade through fields of tall rose-beige grass . |
3 | So he found them a tiny cottage just south of Orvieto , in the grounds of the villa of some Italian friends of his who had departed for the northern mountains , a villa with a pool and a shady veranda along one side and an unspeakably romantic view down the steep hillside towards the floating cathedral . |
4 | Instead we did the trail just south of Reykjahlid , climbing a lava mound overlooking the great lake . |
5 | Just south of Kirkstall Abbey is Armley Mills , once the world 's largest woolen mill . |
6 | Robert Fellowes commissioned Soane , who was building several houses in East Anglia at that time , to design his family seat in willowy country just south of Norwich near Shotesham All Saints , a village with a winding stream and Dutch gabled cottages . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | They had been handed over amicably in November 1957 , as work had already been started on building a staging airfield on the Indian Ocean island of Gan , just south of Ceylon . |
9 | Nissan 's British plant at Washington , in north-east England just south of Newcastle , may be slick by local standards , but is grubbier and more human than its older Tennessean cousin or Toyota 's newer factory in Kentucky . |
10 | ‘ Why do the English not like salt ? ’ asked Eric Chevalier , chef at the beautiful Auberge du Val au Cesne , just south of Yvetot , where we were under his instruction on a Normandy Cookery Break . |
11 | The construction of the two lengths of the ‘ Leicester Line ’ , that from Leicester southwards to Debdale near Gumley first of all and then on to Market Harborough , between 1792 and 1809 ( the ‘ Leicester and Northants Union Canal ’ ) and that from Foxton Junction , just south of Debdale , over the uplands of South Leicestershire and North Northants . |
12 | GCR class 9P 4–6–0 No. 6164 ‘ Earl Beatty ’ , one of the most powerful of all GC locomotives , is seen just south of Pilsley station as it heads an up express from Manchester in 1939 . |
13 | GCR clas B7 No. 5478 runs smartly downhill just south of Wortley station , heading a Manchester-Marylebone express in 1930 . |
14 | Much of this went to Hull for export , but trains for Lancashire had to go up the formidable Worsborough bank avoiding Barnsley , and joining the main line just south of Penistone . |
15 | It was only when I entered the Arab quarter , a network of dusty roads and wastelands of rubble interspersed with a few small houses just south of the city , that a Palestinian remembered the name . |
16 | Within two years , Martin Mere , just south of the Fylde and Whittlesey Mere in the Fens , had been pumped dry . |
17 | In the 1850s the ‘ Bampton Polderland ’ on the Thames just south of Kelmscott was drained by an entrepreneurial farmer , William Wood . |
18 | Catcleugh Reservoir , just south of Carter Bar , was another favourite venue . |
19 | One of the classic studies of this time was that of the Reykjanes ridge , part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge , just south of Iceland . |
20 | Mick and Paddy had left me just south of Adrar . |
21 | At this village off the A49 just south of Church Stretton is the Acton Scott Working Farm Museum , where nineteenth-century arable farming techniques are demonstrated using Shire horses and steam-powered machinery . |
22 | The ‘ floating ’ gardens or chinampas in the lake region just south of modern Mexico City were also oriented in a similar way when they were first built , probably in Teotihuacan times , and this orientation can still be seen in surviving examples . |
23 | He concluded that the northern limit of totality was just south of his location . |
24 | In the south of England , the edge of totality was bracketed by observations on either side of the line , south of the village of Cranbrook ( which lies in Kent , just south of latitude 51 degrees 10 minutes l . |
25 | In the Allenstein-Marienwerder district , just south of Danzig , there was a massive vote of 460,000 to remain with Germany and only 16,000 to move under Polish administration . |
26 | It was in fact off Belle Île just south of the entrance to the Bay , which then curves east towards Vannes , where the invasion force from the Morbihan was waiting to embark , that soon after dawn on the morning of Tuesday 20 November 1759 Hawke was able to make the classic signal ‘ French fleet in sight ’ . |
27 | We are situated in beautiful countryside just south of Newent , a few minutes from the M.50 . |
28 | Keeping parallel to the N71 until Troyes , it follows the N19 to Nogent-sur-Seine — just south of the often forgotten delimited districts between Sézanne and Villenauxe-la-Grande — before heading northwest towards Paris . |
29 | While there are a few vines on the flat ground just south of the village , the vast majority are found on the slopes of the Butte de Saran , the northern extremity of the Côte des Blancs , and on the eastern slopes of Mont Bernon , edging the suburbs of Épernay . |
30 | The woman had been in the country for less than a week when she went to the beach at Umgababa , just south of Durban , after breakfast on Tuesday . |