Example sentences of "in west [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soeriaatmadja showed me pictures of the devastation caused recently by one elephant in West Sumatra who had knocked down 170 homes . |
| 2 | Recently the college played host to ten motor vehicle students from a college in West France . |
| 3 | Mr Chilvers , who lived in West Horndon , was taken hospital and transferred to the burns unit at Billericay , where he died with his parents at his bedside . |
| 4 | The fabrics side was held back by a decline in demand for batiks in West Africa . |
| 5 | On 9 October , it was announced that Lord Swinton , a leading Conservative and former minister-resident in West Africa , would be made Minister of Civil Aviation . |
| 6 | Attitudes to local investors from immigrant communities , such as Lebanese and Syrians in west Africa and Indians in east Africa , whether or not they were citizens , have frequently been equally wary . |
| 7 | While this attitude of hostility to immigrant groups was less severe in west Africa it certainly played a role in Ghana from Nkrumah 's period , and in Nigeria as a result of the ‘ localization ’ decree of 1974 . |
| 8 | In West Africa trade with the Mediterranean coast and Cairo was continuous from medieval times . |
| 9 | In the interstices of the system , particularly in west Africa , the older , established , trading families in cities such as Kano and newcomers to the commercial sector played a significant role . |
| 10 | In west Africa such small-scale entrepreneurs have long been tolerated , though seldom actively encouraged . |
| 11 | In West Africa and South-East Asia , commercial loggers cut down hardwoods to supply rich consumer countries — but they rarely replant . |
| 12 | Strips of cloth had been tied to the thorn , as on trees dedicated to strange gods in West Africa , the Near East and India , each strip a supplication . |
| 13 | Sometimes , as in West Africa , a lady arises from a lake , yet she is no lady but the lake itself . |
| 14 | Five years later she was to be found lecturing on her expedition to the Gabon , she had climbed Mount Cameroon , and her Travels in West Africa was published to consolidate her reputation as a ‘ fish and fetish ’ expert . |
| 15 | David Cooper of Genetic Resources Action International , based in Barcelona , pointed out that it was farmers in West Africa who first noted the resistance of some varieties of cowpea to insects and who nurtured superior varieties that carried this characteristic . |
| 16 | However , cropping decisions , the purchase of inputs and marketing are often done by men ( with important exceptions , for example in West Africa ) . |
| 17 | The British produced a remarkable variety of stations in West Africa , all faithfully recorded in the photographic collection of the Crown Agents who were closely involved in their building . |
| 18 | The greatest progress during the 1930s was made in investigations , sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation in West Africa and in South America , of the tropical disease called yellow fever . |
| 19 | It was not the sort I had seen in West Africa , with side-windows missing and as many chickens on board as people , but as plush as the one that had recently taken our Parish Fellowship for an evening drive around Cheshire . |
| 20 | BP is to sell its refining and marketing activities in West Africa and Tunisia to Elf Aquitaine . |
| 21 | former British protectorate in West Africa . |
| 22 | Where there is seasonal flooding or irrigation , as in West Africa , rice is cultivated — and specialised cash cropping is increasing in the savanna zone as a whole . |
| 23 | For example , it is used in West Africa to control blackfly which is a carrier of the disease onchocerciasis and which has developed resistance to many pesticides . |
| 24 | Professor Zuckerman said that field tests , using the new vaccine , are now to be done in West Africa , Burma and China . |
| 25 | Our collections would be a random sample from the wild cocoa population , to be handed over to cocoa breeders who could screen them for genes that would be useful under their own conditions : a genotype that was susceptible to witches ' broom disease might still be useful for other reasons to farmers in West Africa , where this disease does not occur . |
| 26 | On the other hand , swollen-shoot disease , caused by a virus , is found only in West Africa . |
| 27 | Over a period of two months we released some 300 000 into a small village in Upper Volta in West Africa . |
| 28 | Whether or not we ever find out the precise source of the metals , analyses have shown that these early casters in West Africa had a considerable technical knowledge and expertise . |
| 29 | By what route the technique got into West Africa — or even whether it was independently devised there — can not be ascertained until we have discovered more sites of the first millennium AD , and earlier in West Africa . |
| 30 | The effect of the former set of pressures can be seen first in the ‘ fifties and especially in West Africa in a series of attempts , all politically inspired and none of them entirely successful , to introduce universal primary education — with all the over-extension of resources consequent on such a decision — and second in the popular pressures felt everywhere towards adopting a curricular content similar to that in ‘ European schools ’ . |