Example sentences of "to the west " in BNC.
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| 1 | No dugouts , though ; only the water hyacinths travelling up from the south , and floating away to the west , clump after clump , with the thick-stalked lilac flowers like masts . |
| 2 | And so long as they pass them through Rannoch to the west if need be . |
| 3 | This natural phenomenon has forced human occupation , by all races since Canada was first inhabited , not just her French colonisation in the 16th century , into its disparate parts and localities , a situation further exacerbated by the Appalachians to the east and the Cordilleras to the west . |
| 4 | Transfer of all Anglo-Scottish sleeping car services from the East to the West Coast main line from May 1988 was a similar decision based on a corporate rather than a regional viewpoint . |
| 5 | There were four major East Coast developments in the 1980s : the significant increase in HST productivity so that sets could be more extensively deployed to provide service to Inverness , Glasgow Queen Street , Hull and Cleethorpes ; electrification of the route from Hitchin to Leeds with only minor interference to train services ; introduction of a new track-maintenance strategy and transfer of overnight Anglo-Scottish sleeping-car services to the West Coast main line . |
| 6 | With the exception of the Newcastle service which was withdrawn , all East Coast Anglo-Scottish overnight services were transferred to the West Coast route from May 1988 , making substantial economies . |
| 7 | A Munich brewer told me derisively that Weissbier was a local term from Swabia ( to the west ) . |
| 8 | Ingleborough — the ‘ Monarch of the Dales ’ — is a noble hill , especially when seen from Whernside 's Twistleton Scars across the deep trench of Chapel-le-Dale to the west , with its features etched against a clear , blue sky ; then it looks as fine a peak as any in the country . |
| 9 | Ahead I could see the rest of my party plodding towards the final slope that leads to the west ( main ) summit . |
| 10 | While the students looked to the West , China 's hardline leadership has found its inspiration in the pre-glasnost Soviet Union of Stalinist aesthetics - muscular arms , square jaws and stiff poses . |
| 11 | Many of the East Germans assumed West Germany had again dug into its pocket to ‘ buy out ’ East Germans seeking to come to the West . |
| 12 | DOZENS more East German refugees arrived outside the West German embassy yesterday seeking asylum and passage to the West , including some who missed by only a few minutes a train that took more than 800 of their compatriots to West Germany . |
| 13 | All but about 300 of the East Germans had flatly refused an offer of guaranteed permission to go to the West providing they returned to East Germany first . |
| 14 | Among those applying the heaviest pressure for their free passage to the West were the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze . |
| 15 | Business and political leaders praised his liberalism and his pragmatism , the assurance with which he presided over China 's opening to the West and the dexterity with which he dumped much of its communist ideology . |
| 16 | THE SOVIET UNION played a key role in the agreement under which thousands of East Germans who had taken refuge in the West German embassies in Prague and Warsaw were allowed to go to the West on Sunday , government officials said yesterday . |
| 17 | As they left the embassy , those who had arrived in cars were invited to leave their keys , and in return were promised that their vehicles would be brought eventually to the West . |
| 18 | The BAe 1000 , claimed by BAe to be two years ahead of the competition , will be able to fly up to 15 passengers direct from London to the West coast of the US , Rio de Janeiro or Singapore with one stop-off . |
| 19 | The thousands of East German refugees in West German embassies , the tens of thousands who have poured out to the West through Hungary are a terrible and unending indictment of his Stalinist regime . |
| 20 | How could he receive Mikhail Gorbachev and other leaders while the world watched 4,500 of his people voluntarily submitting to horrific conditions in the embassy in Prague just to get to the West ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Mr Honecker evidently felt that things were going so well he could afford to relax and give his people what they wanted most : more freedom to travel to the West . |
| 23 | Government officials in Bonn said that the Soviet Union had played a key role in obtaining the agreement under which the thousands who had taken refuge in the Prague and Warsaw embassies were taken to the West at the weekend . |
| 24 | So long as East Germany kept its Czech border open , any evacuation of would-be emigrants from the embassy was only a temporary solution , signalling to still more East Germans that a conduit to the West existed . |
| 25 | Outwardly , Moscow has reacted with remarkable calm to the great human flood from East Germany to the West , and the convulsions it has caused in relations among its allies . |
| 26 | THE EXODUS from East Europe continued unabated yesterday , with thousands leaving and many would-be emigres defying attempts by the Communist authorities to prevent their crossing into Czechoslovakia , from where most refugees are fleeing to the West . |
| 27 | Now East Germans are shipping their own people in sealed trains through their own country to the West , and police fight back thousands who block the tracks and want to jump on board . |
| 28 | Then there is the story of the man who , as a young law student , fled across the border from the East and now , some 40 years later , has woven the deal which brought another 15,000 , many of them the age he was then , to the West . |
| 29 | In doing so , he achieved something of the economic uplift associated with a move to the West , with little of the attendant culture shock , a fact which Glasgow can take as a kick in the groin or a pat on the back . |
| 30 | In Dresden , witnesses reported violent clashes between police and would-be emigrants desperate to board trains to the West . |