Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] western [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Russia was later to exploit her mineral advantages and other countries were to be linked to this mass of industrial power as was , for example , Sweden as a supplier of iron ore , but heavy industry was in 1880 mainly concentrated in western Europe . |
| 32 | Still other patterns of agricultural life could be found in western Germany , France and Switzerland , where a high degree of subdivision of the land among peasant proprietors was already in 1880 the rule , and was to increase . |
| 33 | Here , the replacement of ivy-scroll decoration by a circular band of saw-tooth is a contrast with the latter two pavements ( the parallels for this type of decoration , again , are found in western England — in the octagonal panelled mosaic from Eastgate Street , Gloucester ; Neal 1981 , no. 57 ) ; but there are still three concentric borders , as in mosaic B , one of which is of simple guilloche . |
| 34 | Dr Vickery 's research may have wider relevance , as similar species are found in Western Europe , North and South America and the Western Pacific islands , allowing dippers to be used as a cheap and easy test of stream acidity . |
| 35 | Several centuries before Christ , the Asian elephant had disappeared from western Asia . |
| 36 | In the commercial arena , 31% of multi-user Unix systems and workstations shipped in Western Europe last year went to the manufacturing sector , whilst the public sector accounted for 25% . |
| 37 | Since 1986 over three million tons of toxic waste have been shipped from Western Europe and North America to other countries . |
| 38 | About half that figure is shipped to Western Europe , mainly Spain , Portugal , France and Finland . |
| 39 | Although the inquiry was still in its early stages by mid-1991 , there were suggestions that its impact would not be limited to Western Australia . |
| 40 | We sat , a strange but contented group , in the dome-car bar as the train swayed through Western Ontario . |
| 41 | Inflation increased in western Germany , reaching 3.3 per cent in October 1990 ( the highest for seven years ) and 3.5 per cent in June 1991 . |
| 42 | Mixing their metaphors with exuberance , they talked of reversing the tide of history , delivering a skills revolution and mounting a crusade to make the British workforce the best trained in Western Europe . |
| 43 | Sephardic Jews , who are descended from Western Europe ( Spain and Portugal ; but also the Middle East and North Africa ) , expressed themselves through their own languages , but were always more ‘ intellectual ’ , more philosophical — in the Aristotelian sense - more scientific and commercial , and more open to syncretism ( e.g. with Islamic and Christian modes of thought ) than their Eastern brethren . |
| 44 | Additional forces reportedly comprised three tank divisions redeployed from western Europe , a doubling of the US Marines contingent to 90,000 , three more aircraft carrier groups and a second battleship , the Missouri . |
| 45 | These will only be resolved in the course of an internal struggle , which will eventually produce governments neither more nor less enlightened than , for instance , those which have ruled over western Europe for the last five hundred years . |
| 46 | Whereas as recently as 1950 half the world 's ships were built in the UK ( notably in Liverpool , Sunderland , Belfast and Glasgow ) , this role was taken by Japan ( 45.9 per cent in 1985 ) , followed by western Europe ( 21. 8 per cent ) , South Korea ( 11.5 per cent ) and the Soviet Bloc ( 10.0 per cent ) . |
| 47 | Does the sustained militancy of the Russian working class reveal the ‘ law-governed ’ essence of capitalist development and the inevitability of its overthrow , or was the Russian case an aberration , a unique deviant from the norm represented by western Europe ? |
| 48 | Within a hundred years of the missionaries ' arrival many English men and women had enthusiastically adopted the monasticism which was considered the purest form of the Christian life and the surest way to salvation , and which had spread throughout western Europe in the fifth and sixth centuries . |
| 49 | The role of " burden-sharing " among NATO allies in terms of costs and responsibilities , an issue which developed further during June-December 1989 , was dominated by consideration of the future level of US forces stationed in Western Europe , principally in West Germany . |
| 50 | Although no final decisions had been taken by March 1990 , the plans under discussion included the closure of several European bases and the possible halving of the 305,000 US troops currently stationed in Western Europe by 1994 [ see below for defence budget proposals ] . |
| 51 | This is illustrated by the fact that there is little natural forest left in western Europe as a whole and that forest resources were much prized by colonial powers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ( see section 4.4.2 in relation to North America ) . |
| 52 | After the publication of the Nouvelle Heloise and Emile ( 1762 ) the cult of romantic landscape spread over Western Europe . |
| 53 | The taste for enamel spread to western Europe by way of church and state . |
| 54 | The lot of the Jews had been an uneasy one for many centuries ; now , for the first time , they were massacred in western Europe . |
| 55 | Although negotiations on arms reductions were about to resume in Geneva when Gorbachev assumed the general secretaryship , Cruise and Pershing-II weapons had already been deployed in Western Europe following the NATO ‘ dual track ’ decision of 1979 ( this was itself represented as a response to the Soviet decision to replace its ageing SS-4 and -5 missiles in Eastern Europe with more modern SS-20s ) . |
| 56 | It was also implied that these illegal forces had been deployed in western Kenya where they were being used to foment ethnic violence [ see p. 38854 ] . |
| 57 | The best that could be achieved in western Europe was a dispersed defensive strategy which would bog down an offensive , in case of war , and so give time for negotiation . |
| 58 | In addition , about 300,000 eastern German workers were commuting to jobs in western Germany , and 108,000 had emigrated to western Germany in the first five months of 1991 — most of them younger , skilled workers [ see also pp. 37761 ; 38109 ; 38354 ] . |
| 59 | Weapons such as the Pershing-II , launched from Western Europe , could reach Soviet territory in about ten minutes and were seen as strategic rather than intermediate in character by Soviet negotiators . |
| 60 | As regards the political system established in Western Europe , based on representative political institutions — parliament , political and philosophical pluralism , the theory of the separation of powers , decentralization , human rights , etc. — that system is in essentials valid and it will be still more effective with a socialist , and not a capitalist , economic foundation . |