Example sentences of "[noun prp] to the [adj] east " in BNC.
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| 1 | The threat to British interests had changed , with international Communism replacing the political and military intrigues of predator European powers and Tsarist Russia of earlier centuries , but the policies for meeting the new threat remained traditional : the judicious stationing of garrisons to protect overseas territories from external aggression and from internal subversion ; the deployment of naval forces to maintain the freedom of the seas in areas of British interest ; and the positioning of strategic reserves at key points , like Egypt and Singapore , on the imperial lines of communication through Suez to the Far East . |
| 2 | The typical barnyard ( or factory-farm ) pig — whatever its breed — is almost certainly descended from the Eurasian wild boar Sus scrofa , whose natural range covers a broad sweep from south-western Spain to the Far East . |
| 3 | Once the route round Africa to the Far East was established and the Muslims who controlled the land across the Middle East had been outflanked , the spice and silk trade of the Mediterranean began slowly to decline . |
| 4 | , John Kidston ( 1893–1983 ) , businessman , was born 19 February 1893 in London , the elder son and second of four children of John Swire of Hillingdon House , Harlow , Essex , and his wife Emily Kidston , and the grandson of John Samuel Swire ( ‘ the Senior ’ ) who moved the emphasis of the family 's trading business from Liverpool to the Far East in the mid-1800s . |
| 5 | The NSR involves plans to open an all-year-round shipping route from north Norway to the Far East along Russia 's northern coast . |
| 6 | It so happens that the Roman collections , which cover a geographical area from Britain to the Middle East and North Africa , fall within the interests of several departments of antiquities . |
| 7 | Recently there has been a change in emphasis within the textile industry from Europe to the Far East , and CAC has had to react to this new situation . |
| 8 | GKR laid the foundations of a world network in the 1970s which broadened in the following decade from Europe to the Far East . |
| 9 | The same document underlined British ( and Commonwealth ) usefulness in a vast segment of the world from Europe to the Far East . |
| 10 | Among the various routes that were agreed upon were US routes via London to the Middle East and South Asia , and through Hong Kong . |
| 11 | The old imperial line of communication through the Mediterranean , Suez Canal , Red Sea and Indian Ocean to the Far East and the Antipodes would be just as important to the Commonwealth as it had been to the colonial Empire . |