Example sentences of "[noun sg] from south " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it merely has a few extra grammes of plutonium squirrelled away ( something explicable as an oversight — or the ‘ oops ’ factor ) , then it might be ready to end its quarrel with the rest of the world in return for a deal that could even bring diplomatic recognition from America , together with trade and aid from South Korea and Japan . |
| 2 | A flotilla of small boats arrived off the coast from South Wales , a few braving the rocky shallows to land . |
| 3 | Jacqui Bowen is a journalist from South Wales who likes to spend as much time as possible out on the hill |
| 4 | They were reinforcing the Metropolitan police up in London where CND had organised a Peace March from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square and the National Front were planning a counter march from south of the Thames . |
| 5 | Placards around the Dundee plant gates depicted him as an alien enemy from south of the border . |
| 6 | The complainant , a partner in a small practice from south of Manchester , said that during a meeting one of the company 's representatives , Mr Hoy , effectively said that the Institute was satisfied with Channel 7 's marketing approach from an ethical point of view . |
| 7 | Plant experts at the meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) have agreed that more than 80 species of ‘ slipper ’ orchids — the genus paphiopedilum from Asia and the genus thragmipedium from South America — should be listed on the CITES Appendix I , which bans all commercial trade . |
| 8 | In the 1760s improvements were made to Patrington Haven , a small port on the river Humber in the days before much of the land was reclaimed , and this facilitated the export of corn from South Holderness to places like the growing towns of the West Riding . |
| 9 | A WOMAN whose unborn child died in the last days of her pregnancy is seeking compensation from South Tees Health Authority . |
| 10 | However , as the United States began its ignominious withdrawal from South East Asia congress finally set about reclaiming the ground it had surrendered to the executive branch . |
| 11 | AT&T Co says it is confident of winning at least $30m in orders for digital switching equipment from South Korea next month , after the government promised to give US firms a fair shot at its telecommunications market in the face of threats of retaliation by the US . |
| 12 | This car was stopped on the hard shoulder of the M4 just west of Swindon , after a motorway chase from South Wales . |
| 13 | A mid-1990 Asian tour by Rabuka led to promises of military training assistance from South Korea , Malaysia , Singapore and China . |
| 14 | The violinist was a heavy , dark-skinned girl from South America , and both the girls had graduated from the Florence conservatory the previous year , according to the programme notes … |
| 15 | Brian has joined the faculty from South Devon College of Arts and Technology , where he was senior lecturer for 25 years , teaching BTEC National and HND courses in hotel and catering institutional management , a course now franchised to the University of Plymouth . |
| 16 | Caspar , a nocturnal mammal from South America , had to be hand reared by Mr Packwood because his mother was unable to produce milk . |
| 17 | The Nat Abrahams Rose Bowl for the winners of the National Catering Business Game was presented to a team from South Devon College . |
| 18 | Radio assault : A team from South Cleveland Hospital Radio are gearing themselves up to tackle a tough army assault course . |
| 19 | Loch Morar bisects the area , dividing North Morar from South Morar . |
| 20 | He was jailed for three years , as was his accomplice Bernard Lynch , a ‘ freelance ’ accountant from south London . |
| 21 | At Kessingland in Suffolk at one stage groynes accumulated material on their southern sides , thus indicating a drift from south to north in a direction contrary to the general direction of drift on the east coast ( Steers , 1953 ) . |
| 22 | Her crew were all rescued , but it was discovered that the Delima was not , in fact , a water-carrier , as had originally been claimed , but a support ship for a massive fleet of between 60 and 130 Taiwanese drift-net vessels , fishing for albacore tuna along an area of oceanic upwelling known as the Subtropical Convergence Zone , stretching across the South Pacific in a narrow 300-km ( 200-mile ) band from south of the Cook Islands to south of French Polynesia . |
| 23 | This of course is what inspired Thor Heyerdahl 's dramatic Kon-Tiki expedition in which he sailed on a raft from South America to Polynesia , thus hoping to prove that he was following in the wake of ancient migration routes which could explain the cultural similarities he found between the two culture areas . |
| 24 | Hong Song-dam from South Korea has had his prison sentence reduced while Khalid el Kid from Sudan has been moved to Kober Prison , Khartoum , Sudan . |
| 25 | Railway authorities were particularly concerned over tickets getting into the wrong hands ; a minor sensation was caused on the Southern Region or BR about 30 years ago when a blank ticket from South Snowdon on the former Welsh Highland Railway was handed in at Clapham Junction . |
| 26 | Int eh last minutes of the Sale , a friend from South Leith Church , kindly helping , managed by sheer persistence and cleverness to find in the music section ( a rate slip-up ! ) a perfect RLS book for the new owner of Swanston Cottage . |
| 27 | Microchemical maps show the distribution of gold and platinum in a gold grain from south Devon ( the field of view is 16 micrometres across ) . |
| 28 | There existed a second manor of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul 's Cathedral , close to Chesewic , and that manor lay between the river and Turnham Green and was called Sutton which it is thought probably derived its name from South Town . |
| 29 | Two individuals , one from North America , the other from South America , are conversing in a hall 40 ft long . |
| 30 | There is mounting evidence from south of the border that trust status has helped the hospitals that have achieved it to improve their delivery of health care and to expand the services that they can offer . |