Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] western [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 The average orientation of N138°E obtained for the United Kingdom is consistent with that of N141°E given for western Europe as a whole , which relates to a NW–SE compressive stress associated with plate-tectonic movements .
2 Having rolled up Western Europe like a carpet , Hitler sued for peace .
3 The patrol was dropped into Western Iraq by helicopter , but poor information meant there were problems from the start .
4 Around 500,000 hectares of forest are said to have been destroyed , and fires have also been reported in western Java and south Sulawesi .
5 Mrs Thatcher will also be assured that there will be no unilateral US cuts of its forces committed to Western Europe , that all will be done in consultations with Nato , and that there will be no grandiose new proposal for further US and Soviet troop cuts until the current Conventional Forces in Europe talks in Vienna are complete .
6 But half the ex-Yugoslavs who have come to Western Europe since the start of the Balkan fighting have not applied for asylum .
7 Of course the influence of Buchanan has not been confined to Western Europe .
8 Former Test opener Graeme Wood , 35 , has retired from first-class cricket after being dropped by Western Australia .
9 This gives a total of 70% of Scottish exports destined for Western Europe .
10 Similar estimates are made for Western Europe .
11 And closer collaboration would be sought with Western Europe and the Commonwealth , particularly with Australia .
12 Labour 's ‘ radical ’ plans are to be welcomed for the vision they bring of the kind of urban public transport that is more or less taken for granted in western Europe .
13 With Henry II 's accession to the English throne in 1154 , the king-duke 's chancery operated over Western France from the Pyrenees to the Canche , and set an example to all other princes , not least to the kings of France .
14 Above all , the English in the age of Bede created a vigorous culture whose ripples were to be felt across Western Europe for decades .
15 As he points out , 16 per cent of all new cars sold in Western Europe these days are diesel-engined .
16 Berghaus is a distributor of women 's coats and jackets which are sold in western Europe and Russia .
17 The market economy which had been exported by western Europe was now worldwide .
18 This area , which approximates to the traditional concept of a desert , may be compared with western Arabia adjacent to the Red Sea rift , where in Yemen rugged mountains rise to well above 2 000 m ( 7 000 ft ) and north of Medina extensive flows of lava are found .
19 Empirical Socialism may be supposed to have judged that that point had been reached in western Europe by the 1960s .
20 On the one hand , she was able to temper President Reagan 's willingness to engage in long-term negotiations over intermediate-range and other missiles based in western Europe .
21 In 1972 members of the international armed forces based in Western Europe were invited to join in and Brigadier Graham Hollands , who is the very able Chairman of the Championships , is shortly hoping to include a Russian team !
22 The object of this project is to test under what circumstances and to what extent people in post-Communist societies are developing values and patterns of behaviour consistent with market economies and social welfare as these terms are understood in Western Europe .
23 My Mother and Father were both born in Western Australia .
24 ( TV 5 could already be received in western Europe , north America and the Caribbean ) .
25 The Jewish Bund ( the general Jewish Labour League of Lithuania , Poland and Russia ) was formed in western Russia in 1897 , and joined the RSDLP in 1898 .
26 Gould had arranged to rendezvous with Gilbert in Sydney before leaving for England , but so eager was he to set sail with his precious cargo that when it seemed Gilbert might have been delayed in Western Australia , he left without seeing him .
27 Research has shown clearly that a ‘ modern ’ pattern of crime control developed in Western Europe and North America in the nineteenth century .
28 In the UK , supply to the final user is , in the main , through a number of major stockists — a system which is rapidly being developed in Western Europe , generally .
29 In fact , with the exception of the occasional exotic demand , such as orchids from Singapore for Elena , Marin 's job was little different from the agents of the other communist élites placed in Western Europe to provide the videotape recorders and other appurtenances of power for the nomenklatura from East Berlin to Moscow and beyond .
30 As state Premier between 1983 and 1988 , Burke had established a strategy known as Western Australia Incorporated — a partnership between the state government and some of the country 's leading entrepreneurs , which had resulted in the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars of public money and the establishment of a Royal Commission to investigate the affair .
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