Example sentences of "in europe [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Atlas folding in north-west Africa conforms remarkably with that of the Pyrenees , which provide probably the best evidence we have in Europe of the coincidence of Hercynian and Alpine fold belts .
2 The first test in Europe of the theory of " liberation " came as early as 1953 when , after the death of Stalin , unrest in the satellite countries came to a head with a rising by the people of East Germany .
3 That will mean an enormous shift in the centre of gravity in Europe towards the north — something that we in Britain should heartily welcome , because on many issues , our approach , or at least , that of Labour Members , has much in common with the countries of northern Europe .
4 If one had to make a guess , it is that within another ten years or so ‘ environment ’ will have become a somewhat passé term , rather as ‘ ecological ’ has , simply because of its insufficiency as a generic description ; a term which links the preservation of rural landscapes in Europe to the fate of millions in Bangladesh obviously has problems of definition .
5 Ducks from Britain are being blamed for driving a species in Europe to the verge of extinction .
6 These migrants were pushed from station pillar to post from the moment they left their homes in Europe to the time they settled in the western United States .
7 On the substantive point , my hon. Friend will know that I agree with him , for I refused earlier this week to agree in Europe to the sort of laws that would have had the effect my hon. Friend sets out .
8 We will let it stew in Europe for a while .
9 Social democratic parties have existed in Europe for a century or more ; the Democratic and Republican parties in the US are well over a century old , and indeed have a certain continuity with earlier parties dating from the time of the American Revolution ; conservative parties on a mass basis were created soon after the emergence of social democracy in Europe ; and communist parties were formed on a world scale after the Russian Revolution .
10 The committee system was to become standard practice in aircraft development in Europe for the rest of the century .
11 The Western Isles have been chosen as one of only three areas in Europe for the preparation of an experimental IDP .
12 Experts have also argued that Britain has the most favourable conditions in Europe for the exploitation of wind , wave and tidal power .
13 Pinochet Hiriart stated in his testimony to the committee in mid-January that the money , apparently used to buy out his share in a small bankrupt arms manufacturing company , was in fact a payment for three loans which he had personally secured in Europe for the company .
14 The Ulster Unionists came in for particular criticism , being accused of sacrificing the province 's interests in Europe for the prospect of holding the balance of power at Westminster .
15 Looking at growth rates in the computer hardware industry in Europe for the period 1990 - 94 , they forecast the following breakdown :
16 well then my Lord ah my Lord not all objective criteria and this I think is very important because you can have objective criterias as I , as I submitted last week that would be erm in order to trade in this market you must have capital of twenty million pounds and ten years experience , but that 's uniform rule , it does n't discriminate it 's objective , but it would be anti competitive because here you are setting up the most important market er in this , erm as they say in Europe for the project futures market and you 're excluding people who could be in there trading and who could be effecting the market
17 Mr Bangemann explicitly appealed to other European leaders not to suggest that German reunification was an immediate political issue or one which could be decided without dramatic changes in the political and security situation in Europe as a whole .
18 In Europe as a whole , mums with under fives work an average of 30 hours a week , while UK mums can only manage under 20 hours a week .
19 But in Europe as a whole the car was still a rich man 's toy .
20 In Europe as a whole , applications for asylum rose more than ten-fold between 1983 and 1992 .
21 But then it is puzzling why so little reduction has occurred in Europe as a whole .
22 Nevertheless , in Europe as a whole , there is a great quantity of Romanesque work and much of it in buildings where a considerable portion is in the original style , though perhaps restored .
23 Before World War II , Samuel had travelled extensively in Europe as a merchant , and thanks to the close fraternal society of orthodox brethren he had contacts in most cities .
24 The EFTA countries , the richest countries in Europe as a group , would be granted a privileged relationship in return for a full share in the burden of supporting the economic development of Eastern and Southern Europe .
25 Many prophets in the tenth century believed that the world would come to an end in the year 1000 , but according to A. J. Gurevich the legends concerning mass psychoses in Europe as the year 1000 approached originated at the end of the fifteenth century when people really were afraid that the end of the world was imminent .
26 NEW environmentally sensitive protective coatings have been launched in Europe as the start of a five-year programme to revise the product range ahead of legislation .
27 Frequently the French company seeks to take over second tier United States enterprises already established in Europe with a view to establishing itself as a mainstream European producer .
28 In the 1970s it was also the biggest in Europe with a population of 70,000 .
29 During its years of power Constantinople was the largest city in Europe with a population of more than half a million .
30 Mr Ainslie dismissed Christie 's strength in Old Master Paintings as a London phenomenon and , when asked to comment on Christie 's Chairman Lord Carrington 's statement that Christie 's were now the largest auction house in Europe with a market share of 48% , said ‘ let him wait till mid 1992 .
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