Example sentences of "[noun pl] to the west " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is equally true for the government of Ethiopia 's attempt to move at least one million people , frequently by force , from the northern districts to the west of the country between 1985 and 1987 . |
| 2 | In his veto message Bush said that if China was presented with such an ultimatum " the result will be weakened ties to the West and further repression " . |
| 3 | But further concessions from these states to Soviet military requirements will in fact be difficult to justify while Soviet officials routinely castigate other developing states for their military concessions to the West . |
| 4 | Hardliners in parliament and in the Russian military say the president is making too many concessions to the West . |
| 5 | This canon marks the first and crucial step to the creation of ‘ patriarchates ’ , a dignity soon to be shared by Constantinople ( founded 330 ) and Jerusalem , giving the Greek East four patriarchates to the West 's one . |
| 6 | This is most obvious east of Ermine Street , though there are traces to the west . |
| 7 | India is now one of the largest exporters of oriental rugs to the West . |
| 8 | One of the earliest defectors to the West was the Russian Igor Gouzenko who with considerable difficulty sought asylum with the Canadian authorities in September 1945 , bringing with him a vast amount of information about Russian espionage activities in North America . |
| 9 | West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl broke off his visit to Poland on Friday and flew home to deal with a dramatic political situation after East Germany opened its borders to the West . |
| 10 | With the Malvern Hill rising to the north ; the Wye Valley and rolling Herefordshire stretching to the Welsh borders to the west ; the secret Royal Forest of Dean to the South ; and the Severn Vale , Gloucester , Cheltenham and the Cotswolds to the east ; surely Newent must be the centre of England at its best . |
| 11 | For the modern visitor , the main approach to the church leads through an avenue of yew trees and up an impressive flight of stone steps to the west door . |
| 12 | Not surprisingly , areas to the west of London were encountering severe shortages of skilled and even unskilled labour by the mid-1980s , a time of real and substantial unemployment in the older industrialized regions . |
| 13 | The Commission stated in limine that in 1983 , before Spain had become a member of the Community , the United Kingdom had not taken appropriate measures to exclude ‘ Anglo-Spanish ’ vessels from its fishing fleet , apparently because those vessels fished mainly in areas to the west of Ireland and mostly for species ( such as hake ) for which there was a much better market in Spain than in the United Kingdom . |
| 14 | Forces of the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ) consolidated during early and mid-June their control over areas to the west and south of Addis Ababa . |
| 15 | The building pattern of the northern part was dominated by the Hanseatic League and this work , together with areas to the west ( Holland ) and the east ( Poland ) along the Baltic are considered on p. 136 . |
| 16 | In the following decade , communities to the west and south of London , such as Basingstoke ( Hants ) , Reading , Guildford and Slough , were to expand even faster . |
| 17 | Mild-mannered visitors to the West Cliff on Friday might find themselves behaving like Madonna or Elvis after Adam Night has cast his spell . |
| 18 | Today many Third World countries remain dependent on selling their commodities to the West . |
| 19 | The USSR is constantly tempted to divert oil from Comecon countries to the West to earn foreign currency and this is a threat which concerns these countries . |
| 20 | The Safavid Shahs encouraged commerce and built roads , caranvaserais and workshops to produce silk and pottery to be sent to the countries to the west . |
| 21 | ‘ Those Cumbrian fells to the west , ’ he pointed . |
| 22 | A new visitor entrance and car park at Hatchlands , near Guildford , will give this season 's visitors fine views of the newly-restored gardens to the west of the house . |
| 23 | In addition to this investment SDG also recommends the electrification of lines to the West of England , North and South Wales , and parts of Scotland . |
| 24 | This string of sandy bays to the west of Bodrum offer a wide choice of anchorages open to the south , but sheltered from the prevailing Meltemi winds . |
| 25 | The decision to ‘ expel ’ the first batch of embassy refugees to the West was a ‘ humanitarian act ’ done in the interests of the many children involved and to avoid epidemics . |
| 26 | If monetary union goes badly , bringing either too much inflation to West Germany or industrial collapse to East Germany ( and hence an even bigger flood of refugees to the West ) , Germany 's voters may turn against Mr Kohl . |
| 27 | So long as that does not include Whitby and Scarborough and er any settlements to the West of the what is essentially the coast road . |
| 28 | Countries to the east of us are in time zones with local time that is ahead of GMT , whereas local time and the time zones to the west are delayed with respect to ours . |
| 29 | for example , when it is 4 o'clock in the afternoon ( 1600 ) — in England , it is 11 o'clock in the morning ( 1100 ) in New York ( 5 time zones to the west ) , 8 o'clock in the morning ( 0800 ) in Los Angeles ( 8 time zones to the west ) , 8 o'clock in the evening ( 2000 ) in Abu Dhabi ( 4 time zones to the east ) , and midnight ( at the end of the day ) in Singapore ( 8 time zones to the east ) . |
| 30 | for example , when it is 4 o'clock in the afternoon ( 1600 ) — in England , it is 11 o'clock in the morning ( 1100 ) in New York ( 5 time zones to the west ) , 8 o'clock in the morning ( 0800 ) in Los Angeles ( 8 time zones to the west ) , 8 o'clock in the evening ( 2000 ) in Abu Dhabi ( 4 time zones to the east ) , and midnight ( at the end of the day ) in Singapore ( 8 time zones to the east ) . |