Example sentences of "in the country " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both programmes are the largest of their kind in the country . ’ |
| 2 | A public appeal to the Emir of Kuwait to intervene personally to end the wave of arbitrary arrests , torture and killings in the country since the withdrawal of Iraqi forces , was issued on 19 April by Amnesty International . |
| 3 | The art discussed may still be in situ , or at least in the country of its origin ; hence the immense attraction of travel to the sites of great civilisations such as Egypt or Mexico . |
| 4 | I remember dark , solemn and suspicious looks , as a travelling family was given tea in the back-garden of a house in the country . |
| 5 | Mrs Sullen is a young gentlewoman , living in the country much against her will , and chafing against marriage to a drunken brute . |
| 6 | In the country , they come largely from rural small holders and farm labourers . |
| 7 | It may take five years , he wrote , or it may take ten , or a hundred or a thousand , but sooner or later everything in the mausoleum will be affected and everything in all the other mausoleums in the city , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the country , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the world . |
| 8 | Mr Govind said the finance minister had announced that 100% equity would be allowed on some developments if they utilised advanced technology and were in the country 's interest . |
| 9 | Choice Hotels is looking to expand in Thailand with a target of 30 hotels in the country within 10 years . |
| 10 | The seven varieties in the Country Range from Countrywide |
| 11 | He would like to open an informal , family-run restaurant in the country one day , so he can eventually imagine returning to the long hours of hotel and restaurant work . |
| 12 | Extensive searches revealed a series of tyre marks along the fairway leading to the 15th and there are fears that Sir Vivien , reputed to be one of the seventeen richest men in the country , may have been kidnapped and held to ransom . ’ |
| 13 | Sunday in the Country |
| 14 | ‘ You know well enough , James — you must have thought — once the government is resolved , and we have talked ourselves hoarse and there is no ink left in the country — then the dragoons will come in and cart the young men away as though we have done nothing . |
| 15 | It 's almost like being in the country . |
| 16 | Rain pours down the window panes of my London flat and I am reading the letters of black political prisoners in the country I was born in . |
| 17 | There are over 170 groups in the country . |
| 18 | 1983 witnessed the last rites on perhaps the most famous freight line in the country — to Consett . |
| 19 | Choreographers should also study John Lanchbery 's sensitive handling of some lesser-known Chopin music for Ashton 's A Month in the Country and his equally successful score for Ashton 's film , The Tales of Beatrix Potter . |
| 20 | This is something that Ashton emphasises when Natalia , Kolia , Vera and the Tutor dance to Chopin 's Grande Polonaise and Fantasy on Polish Airs in A Month in the Country . |
| 21 | They are often most valuable members of a company because of their ability to sink their own personalities in order to play a range of entirely unusual characters such as the comic Alain in La Fille Mal Gardée , the tragic Bratfisch in Mayerling , Kolia , the son , in A Month in the Country and the ridiculous short dancer in Elite Syncopations . |
| 22 | They are found in such widely differing ballets as MacMillan 's Romeo and Juliet and The invitation and as Ashton 's Enigma Variations and A Month in the Country . |
| 23 | The stories can range from the most tragic such as The Rake 's Progress , Romeo and Juliet and Mayerling to the lyrical fantasy of The Dream and from the subtle and poignant A Month in the Country to the happily funny La Fille Mal Gardée or the rumbustious Pineapple Poll . |
| 24 | Particularly valuable examples of the amount of information which can be given about a character in brief solos are those for most of the characters in A Month in the Country and , dramatically , for those in Mayerling . |
| 25 | It can be a group picture , e.g. Enigma Variations ; a solitary figure mourning lost love and youth , e.g. A Month in the Country or enjoying himself , e.g. Les Patineurs ; or , more rarely , the curtain fulling on an empty stage , e.g. Gloria , possibly the most dramatic ending of all . |
| 26 | Some of the best examples of the single gesture of great significance are to be found in Ashton 's A Month in the Country and MacMillan 's The Invitation . |
| 27 | To a very large extent this is what Ashton does in A Month in the Country where the non-dancers speak out from time to time in explicit gestures . |
| 28 | Similarly the delicate and subtle nuances of such ballets as Ashton 's A Month in the Country , Robbins ' Dances at a Gathering and MacMillan 's Song of the Earth are successfully conveyed and capture the audience 's attention from the moment the curtain rises by the impetus , rhythm , dimension and variety of dance . |
| 29 | Is the tale to be told in the short space of thirty or forty minutes with a minimal cast ? 1f so , then care should be taken to dispense with any dancer or item not essential to the action , e.g. Ashton eliminated several characters in Turgenev 's A Month in the Country . |
| 30 | It should only include items which increase tension as in Romeo and Juliet or give rise to more fun and happiness as in La Fille Mal Gardée , or enhance the general mood as in A Month in the Country where there is romance in the air and also a general feeling of frustration . |