Example sentences of "[v-ing] the country " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the agreement China would provide the Soviet Union with a commodity loan worth 1,000 million Swiss francs ( US$730 million ) allowing the country to purchase Chinese grain , meat , tea , tobacco , peanuts , textiles and light industrial products . |
| 2 | Global Biodiversity Strategy , a blueprint for conservation prepared by the World Conservation Union ( IUCN ) , the UN Environment Programme ( UNEP ) and the World Resources Institute , has suggested that third world countries should declare sovereignty over their genetic resources as a means of protecting the earth 's diversity of species , and allowing the countries concerned to profit from the growing demand for plants and animals . |
| 3 | We now get calls from serious companies — the companies who are involved in building the country 's sewage systems — who inform us of the problems and the reality behind the scenes , because they want to see our efforts succeed . |
| 4 | In an interview with The Art Newspaper published in May 1991 ( no.8 , p.6 ) Korolev explained : ‘ I anticipate that we must play an active role in the international art market ; it is not a question of looting the country , but of a normal integration into the world-wide process of cultural development ’ . |
| 5 | He also announced that the South African team would not be using the country 's current national anthem but the Olympic hymn , Beethoven 's " Ode to Joy " , and unveiled the flag under which the team would compete . |
| 6 | Romania is to stay a republic , suggesting the country 's new rulers see little future for the former King Michael . |
| 7 | Among these , AEA is actively helping the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union clean up various types of contamination resulting from Chernobyl and a variety of other nuclear and non-nuclear activities . |
| 8 | Aimed at helping the country 's construction industry to survive the recession and emerge ready for the competitive European future , the conference fielded a strong line-up of speakers . |
| 9 | They wanted more reforms , not less , and an active role to play in helping the country rid itself of social ills . |
| 10 | It is good for the consumer and is helping the country out of recession . ’ |
| 11 | There 's little to disturb the fun for these young people , the middle class children whose parents are enjoying the country 's new found wealth . |
| 12 | Nothing is known of its activities , but Vikings normally maintained themselves by raiding the country within a wide range of their base . |
| 13 | IN his attempt to retain power John Major is , not unnaturally , trawling the country in search of support . |
| 14 | Although Newton did not hinder the setting up of a programme in animal morphology under Balfour , he was suspicious of the laboratory-based discipline and played an important role in galvanizing the country 's amateur bird-watchers to form a network that could provide information of real scientific value . |
| 15 | What with Becky Sieff crusading the country and a succession of charity dinners and film and theatre premieres , close on £300,000 was raised in the first half of 1939 . |
| 16 | The Nationalist Party government of Prime Minister Jim Bolger , elected in October 1990 after six years of Labour rule [ see p. 37781 ] , aimed to reduce the budget deficit and to tackle what Finance Minister Ruth Richardson characterized as a burden sapping the country 's energy . |
| 17 | In West Germany the leader of the opposition , Kurt Schumacher , and his Social Democrat Party rejected entry on nationalist grounds , arguing that by binding the country so closely to western states which were also members of a military alliance led by the United States , Adenauer was making the possibility of German reunification even more difficult and remote . |
| 18 | He accused the Tories of transforming the country through the lacerations of unemployment , the disfiguration of poverty and the grievous bodily harm of record bankruptcies and repossessions . |
| 19 | Australia 's Prime Minister Paul Keating pledged on Monday after re-election that his government would begin transforming the country into a republic with the Queen replaced as head of state . |
| 20 | Everything he has done has been aimed at bringing the country to dictatorship , to presidential rule as they call it . |
| 21 | The North might well observe too that it would rather be free of national economic policies that have only succeeded , over so many post-war years and through several alternating governments , in bringing the country to a level of GNP per head visibly falling behind all our respectable rivals — and some newcomers till recently beneath notice . |
| 22 | That means power and coal workers bringing the country to its knees once again . |
| 23 | Valentin Mesyats , the first secretary of the CPSU committee in Moscow oblast ( region ) , said that the platform ignored the fact that besides the CPSU no other force was " capable of uniting the people , capable of coming through the difficulty of this transitional period and bringing the country out of the crisis " . |
| 24 | This immediately provoked a strike by taxi drivers and private haulage operators who blocked main roads and border crossings , bringing the country virtually to a standstill on Oct. 26-28 . |
| 25 | Buthelezi accused the ANC of bringing the country to the brink of civil war and of aiming to wreck the negotiation process , setting the stage for an attempt to seize power . |
| 26 | Pitt 's great parliamentary opponent , Charles James Fox and his supporters roundly condemned his profligacy in loans to foreign powers , an obvious but overestimated cause of gold drain , and accused him of bringing the country to the point of bankruptcy . |
| 27 | Fantastic painted foliage is appearing in streets and adorning gable walls , bringing the country into the city . |
| 28 | More recent theories suggest the crossing place further down river at Rochester or Chatham , but Dunkin tells us the Roman Army ( the seventh and tenth legions ) then turned along through what is now Snodland and Halling burning and wasting the country as they advanced through the villages . |
| 29 | The sluice gates holding back a bottomless reservoir of blood are creaking open , spattering the country with thick , viscous dollops . |
| 30 | The new overtures , reflecting the country 's overriding economic troubles , point to a further lessening of their sway over Mr Gorbachev . |