Example sentences of "[prep] the west " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the days before glasnost — which his fictions may be thought to have rehearsed and predicted , but which could well mean that his fictions will no longer be for the West what they have been so far , when the thing that they deplore was still there in its entirety to be deplored — Kundera was forced into exile in the ‘ free world ’ of the time . |
| 2 | As for the West Midlands , it tried various shades of red , white , blue , and grey and even canary yellow but by the end of 1989 had still not got its formula worked out . |
| 3 | IN ANOTHER spectacular climbdown by East Germany , more than 6,000 East Germans , who had filled the West German embassy in Prague beyond bursting point , were allowed to leave for the West last night . |
| 4 | ALMOST 24 hours late , the first of several chartered trains left Prague for the West last night , carrying some of the 12,000 East German emigrants who had spent another night and a day on the chilly pavements around the West German embassy or in the embassy 's increasingly squalid grounds . |
| 5 | Eddie Hemmings is already inked in , but Nick Cook — still trying to puzzle out why he has been brought here but overlooked in favour of Keith Medlycott for the West Indies — may end up as one of the drinks carriers . |
| 6 | Living is easier , but more expensive , for the West German family than for its Eastern counterpart . |
| 7 | ABAD-TEMPERED Uefa Cup game between Cologne and Red Star Belgrade last night ended with a last-minute winner for the West Germans , two players sent off for fighting , the Red Star coach involved in an after-match incident with an usher , and fighting between rival supporters . |
| 8 | President Mitterrand of France ( and he 's not alone in this ) has been anxious that too swift a move to reunify the two Germanys could destabilise Gorbachev , something that could spell disaster not only for the West but for the balance of world power . |
| 9 | Mr John Brown , the Conservative agent for the West Midlands , said he had heard rumours about financial difficulties yesterday : ‘ I do not know if there is any truth in them , and I can not react . ’ |
| 10 | He is bushy-tailed and defiantly optimistic for the new decade — which in his case starts early when the still battered England cricket team leave for the West Indies in less than three weeks . |
| 11 | And he has made it clear that an all-German election should be held next year at the earliest , not as a quick substitute for the West German one in December . |
| 12 | With all this , some people might feel sorry for Mr Oskar Lafontaine , the Social Democrat who will be challenging Mr Kohl for the West German chancellorship in the December election . |
| 13 | It would be nice to dismiss this as a problem concerning a far-off country paying the price of its excess , if it was not for the West 's dependency on Japan 's past boom . |
| 14 | They were unfortunate in that batting conditions for them were not as favourable as they had been for the West Indians . |
| 15 | The fallacy , so long espoused by the United States , that any political settlement for the West Bank must primarily involve Jordan was sharply exposed by the Uprising . |
| 16 | Since the PLO , composed of both accommodationist and rejectionist groups , could not accept either without damaging its internal unity , Jordan seemed pivotal to any settlement for the West Bank . |
| 17 | This idea was reiterated by US Secretary of State , George Schultz , reflecting US determination that any settlement for the West Bank should exclude the PLO and restore Jordanian sovereignty , in theory if not in practice . |
| 18 | The Chief Constable for the West Midlands , Geoffrey Dear , took this argument further by pointing out that the day before the riots a successful carnival had taken place , with the support of local community leaders . |
| 19 | Unfortunately for the West German mining industry , the reports of resurrection were exaggerated and demand was weak . |
| 20 | When a bureau is about to be sited , a great deal of consideration is given to the needs of the disabled , although statistics for the West Midlands showed that full access is still not always easy to achieve . |
| 21 | PPG10 : Strategic guidance for the West Midlands ( Sep ) |
| 22 | Pamela is appeals co-ordinator for the West Sussex Macmillan Service based at King Edward VII Hospital , Midhurst . |
| 23 | She lives with her husband and four children in Liphook and is hoping enough people will sponsor her run to raise a much needed £18,000 for the West Sussex Macmillan Service , which includes Haslemere , Hindhead and Liphook in its area . |
| 24 | If this a new beginning for South Africa , their first Test since their isolation from international cricket in 1970 , because of their government 's apartheid policies , so it was for the West Indies . |
| 25 | If they were held at bay longer than they anticipated and carried into the final day , it only seemed a stay of execution for the West Indies . |
| 26 | The result was most timely for the West Indies even if it left the South Africans in a state of some shock . |
| 27 | He has been given every chance to develop , for the West Indies youth team 's tour of Australia in 1988 , another trip to Zimbabwe in 1989 and every representative President 's XI or Under-23s going in the Caribbean against touring teams . |
| 28 | Although two other Murrays , the unrelated Deryck of Trinidad and David of Barbados , have kept wicket for the West Indies no one from Grenada has yet earned a Test place . |
| 29 | Gus Logie top-scored for the West Indies with 20 , while Paul Reiffel claimed 3-14 in six impressive overs for the Australians . |
| 30 | After a tearful goodbye to Camilla at his Buckingham Palace apartment , he sailed for the West Indies on HMS Minerva in 1973 . |