Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [art] islands " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martial law had remained in effect on the islands after it had been lifted throughout the rest of Taiwan in mid-1987 [ see pp. 35378-79 ] . |
| 2 | In 1971 a military coup brought in General Tren Son Taim ( a Taiwanese refugee who had led a tiny fascist force on the islands during the Second World War ) , and Washington lifted the trade embargo . |
| 3 | Until recently , barn owls were also quite rare in Malaysia , although common in neighbouring Thailand and to the south on the islands of Indonesia , especially Java . |
| 4 | Zanzibari opposition to the union with the mainland had been the cause of sporadic unrest on the islands , and the detention of several hundred dissidents on the islands was reported during the run-up to the elections . |
| 5 | Despite what was until the Eastern Airlines strike a prosperous tourist trade , the percentage of people living in poverty on the islands is nearly three times that in the mainland United States . |
| 6 | In 1956 we still breathed pure air , even in Athens ; the magic beauty of the countryside had not yet vanished from the most famous sites , and there was no discotheque on the islands . |
| 7 | For a few years after 1413 a lease on the islands of Korcula , Hvar and Brac was obtained with the agreement of the Habsburg Emperor , Sigismund , but the Ragusans failed to maintain their position in face of the hostility of the islanders and the rivalries of their Venetian , Hungarian and Slav neighbours . |
| 8 | According to a report in the International Herald Tribune of Aug. 1 , it was likely that Iraq 's " maximum demands " at Jeddah had included up to US$10,000 million in aid ; $2,400 million in compensation for " stolen " oil ; the cancellation of $10,000 million in debts ; the renunciation of Kuwaiti claims to the southern section of the Rumalla oil field ; and a long-term lease on the islands of Bubiyan and Warba , both of which lay off Iraq 's short Gulf coast . |
| 9 | Namibia lies between South Africa and the Penguins but it was essential for recognition to know that Namibia had no claim on the islands . |
| 10 | The movement called for a referendum on the islands ' continued union with the mainland . |
| 11 | The crew of that canoe were believed to be among the first human beings to set foot on the Islands . |
| 12 | PETER Owen , the publisher , has received a sizeable order for copies of Falkland People , a book describing life on the islands . |
| 13 | Life on the islands is relaxed and simple . |
| 14 | Polar bears , especially mothers with cubs , tend to spend the summer on the islands , where they also graze on the vegetation . |
| 15 | Les helped to convert an old barn into a wildlife hospital on the islands and he recruited locals to learn how to treat the animals . |
| 16 | The animals spend much of the year on the islands . |
| 17 | It will be very hard to find them , for there is such a darkness on the islands of the Black Sea that a spoon might stand up in it . |
| 18 | Of these , 10 species breed on the Antarctic continent and a further five on Antarctic Peninsula ; the rest breed on the islands and archipelagos both north and south of the limit of pack ice . |
| 19 | They felt that there were some fundamental problems within the education system on the islands , problems that the official teachers ' union were failing to redress . |
| 20 | In November 1989 it was announced that the Falkland Islands Company ( now owned by Anglo United , a UK-based mining and fuel distribution group which had taken over Coalite , the Falkland Islands Company 's existing owner , in August 1989 ) would be appointing a chief executive who would be based for the first time on the islands themselves . |
| 21 | Whilst Williams gave talks on such themes as race relations and the need for genuine party politics on the islands , a volunteer group of supporters gathered in the signatures , and while his reception in some areas was not favourable , in general it was welcoming . |