Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] in the north " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government agreed , at the end of talks with Prince Sadruddin , to extend by six months a " memorandum of understanding " , due to expire in December , permitting UN relief agencies to continue operations in the north and south of the country . |
| 2 | The establishment of such new administrative bodies in the remoter parts of the kingdom was a significant move towards building a more unified nation , but the need to create councils in the North and on the Marches is in itself an indication of how England was still divided at this date . |
| 3 | De Valera 's Republicans decided to contest seats in the North and thus allowed Prime Minister Brooke to present the election as a plebiscite on partition and the existence of Ulster . |
| 4 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 5 | 132 ) when they are sent to govern cities in the north , became the most hated of Spartan institutions . |
| 6 | The regional autonomy parties continued to make gains in the north , but won only 2.5 per cent of the overall vote . |