Example sentences of "in the [adj] east " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his view these blocs were part of a Western policy of ‘ divide and rule ’ in the Arab East and Southeast Asia . |
| 2 | They did kill an estimated 1,500 Japanese for the loss of only 40 of their own men ; a sharp contrast to the 166,500 Allied losses ( mostly prisoners ) in Malaya , Hong Kong , and in the Dutch East Indies , where the Japanese lost only 15,000 men in the campaigns of the 1940–41 winter . |
| 3 | FREE IN THE MIDDLE EAST |
| 4 | It was also — although it is now forgotten in the West — the scene of some of the fiercest fighting between Axis and Allied forces in the Middle East . |
| 5 | The growth of Islam , and regional tensions in the Middle East and parts of Asia would have an impact on the northern industrialised world . |
| 6 | BEIRUT ( AP ) — The American University of Beirut , once the most celebrated centre of higher education in the Middle East , reopened after a six-month closure caused by fighting between Syrian and Christian forces . |
| 7 | Law and order in Uganda IT IS more than a decade since Kampala was one of the world 's danger capitals , when Uganda was under the sway of Idi Amin , the murderous clown now in exile in the Middle East . |
| 8 | JERUSALEM — The US Secretary of State , James Baker , has invited the Israeli and Egyptian foreign ministers to Washington in an attempt to break a stalemate in the Middle East peace process . |
| 9 | The decoration of the jar is lifted directly from Chinese porcelains of the fourteenth century which were highly prized in the Middle East at the time . |
| 10 | Henderson drew a sharp contrast with the years after 1945 when Britain was still a major and respected force in world affairs , the dominant power in the Middle East down to the time of Suez , the second most important power in the Far East at least down to the 1954 Geneva Conference . |
| 11 | Her varied responses in the North Atlantic alliance , in the European community , in Irish affairs , and in attempting to mediate in the Middle East as broker between the Arabs and Israel added to this impression . |
| 12 | In the Middle East especially , British power was still a decisive factor down to 1956 , however illusory its basis . |
| 13 | He was then a flight sergeant with 104 Mobile Signals Unit in the Middle East . |
| 14 | Was service as an airman in the Middle East and India is graphically described , as are a number of post war assignments of great variety covering a multitude of aircraft from Meteors and Javelins to rocket-assisted Valiants ! |
| 15 | ‘ Dramatic events in the Middle East proved once again the importance of the Royal Air Force as a fighting service . |
| 16 | ‘ The fact is , ’ wrote Clark himself on 15 August , ‘ that if we lose out in the Middle East , we shall be immediately destroyed . ’ |
| 17 | The Suez event was a parting of many ways ; but justice is not done to their complexity by perceiving it as merely the last spasm of an Empire-orientated Britain , a Britain conditioned to regard ‘ losing out in the Middle East ’ as immediate destruction . |
| 18 | Ten years later I discovered while watching the same film on TV that the shadow was n't part of the film after all : it was Um Al-Marhoom 's shadow [ Um Al-Marhoom is what we in the Middle East call the woman who is left without children after the death of her only son ] , trying to sell some boiled chickpeas to us children . |
| 19 | This fear of American inroads into areas that Britain used to control effortlessly was not confined to civil aviation ; the British also resented the activity of US oil companies in the Middle East , and US attempts to break into the British-dominated international rubber market and the sterling bloc . |
| 20 | As the Americans hoped to obtain substantial rights in the Middle East , the British took the opportunity to use their influence in those countries and warn the governments about what wide American penetration of their air services would mean . |
| 21 | The Chiefs of Staff focused on the strategic arguments for the British presence in the Middle East . |
| 22 | The Chiefs of Staff also seem to have been strikingly narrow in their strategic vision , disregarding the political and diplomatic problems arising from Britain 's role in the Middle East . |
| 23 | Bevin and the Foreign Office were on occasion more sensitive to this issue — but in Bevin 's case this produced the bizarre proposal to hang on in the Middle East from a base in inhospitable ( but British ) territory 2,000 miles from the Suez Canal , Even Bullock is forced to concede that Bevin was ‘ obsessed ’ with the Middle East , an obsession he never seems to have lost . |
| 24 | Looking at the question from an economic standpoint , the key justification for a continued British presence in the Middle East was access to oil . |
| 25 | We 've got stores in the Arctic Circle , we 've got shops literally in the desert in the Middle East and we 've got them in Hong Kong and Singapore and they 're all the same — and they all work . |
| 26 | His mother is less than willing to be involved , ignoring him in favour of the in-flight mag — an in-depth article on drainage ditch construction in the Middle East is far more interesting to her than her child 's welfare . |
| 27 | Bryceson had been a wartime pilot ; shot down in the Middle East , he taught himself to walk again only through exceptional determination . |
| 28 | Fox & Gibbons is a law firm in the Middle East and has specialised in Middle East fund management for more than 25 years . |
| 29 | ‘ We are still in the Middle East and one day the government might need teeth . ’ |
| 30 | The Empire reached its zenith after the First World War with the acquisition of former German colonies in Africa and with the addition of League of Nations mandates to govern parts of the old Ottoman Empire in the Middle East — Palestine , Jordan and Iraq . |