(1) Today we tend to see islands as backward places in comparison to the mainland .(2) Thirty of the islands are connected to the mainland by a series of bridges and an overseas highway.(3) The geological fault lines underlying the eruptions stretch to the Italian mainland .(4) Ironically, it was these ports on the Spanish mainland that needed reform if Spain was to benefit.(5) In the 1950s bridges began to be built from the mainland to the outlying sea islands.(6) This was a deeply formative experience, dividing the fate of the island from the mainland .(7) And then the same salmon may return to the islands after processing on the mainland .(8) The impossibly pretty town is mostly on an island on Lake Constance but spills over onto the mainland .(9) Taiwanese law requires any local chip company investing in a venture on the mainland to declare the fact.(10) Subsoils on the mainland tend to be limestone, while on the islands they are mainly volcanic.(11) The bridge basically connects the island of Seil to the mainland and the Atlantic flows all around.(12) A decade ago, private art collectors on the mainland were virtually unheard of.(13) The island, which was once attached to the mainland , is reached by a short ferry ride.(14) the growing important of mainland China(15) Chiang had been forced to abandon the mainland and retreat to the island of Taiwan in 1949.(16) It seemed the wind was so strong the island would be blown crashing into the shores of the mainland .
