Example sentences of "[prep] western [noun prp] have [be] " in BNC.

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1 Embarrassed to some extent by their traditional association with the Soviet Union , but at the same time drawing their identity from it , the communist parties of Western Europe have been passing through a period of internal crisis and conflict .
2 In recent years , telephone companies in Western Europe have been investing fabulous sums in replacing their old , analogue networks with digital ones .
3 The Soviet Union has now been a socialist state for more than sixty years : many countries in Western Europe have been socialist for more than a quarter century ; and Asia has not only the Chinese experiment in socialism but other countries in Asia , Africa and the Americas have experimented with socialism .
4 It is believed that chimpanzee colonies in Western Africa have been put under severe strain by live export trade for medical research .
5 Turtle breeding beaches in western Cyprus have been given a breathing space by the decision of the government to freeze development in the area for one year .
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