Example sentences of "[adj] countries ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some countries ' currencies are only partially convertible into other currencies and their use for specific purposes , e.g. overseas investment , might be restricted by the central bank . |
| 2 | To facilitate international links between the public networks , efforts are being made to standardise different countries ' ISDNs . |
| 3 | With their teams of lawyers , accountants and company agents , and able to transfer money at the push of a computer button , the launderers dodge through the maze of the different countries ' jurisdictions creating a trail so complex that investigators , never mind the banks , find it almost impossible to spot what is going on . |
| 4 | In terms of products , technology and markets , Mr Aimetti is right , but human differences of culture and language remain , and the requirements of different countries ' laws still lag far behind what the pan-European company needs . |
| 5 | Great care should be taken in using real output per capita figures to compare different countries ' standards of living . |
| 6 | ( Metric and Imperial measure comparison of all weapon sizes in this book are mathematical and do not take account of slight variations in different countries ' measurements of bore sizes , etc . ) |
| 7 | Large military spending took place during the war years of 1914–18 , followed by the Allied countries ' demands for huge reparations in the Treaty of Versailles . |
| 8 | From its international headquarters in Montreal , Canada , AMARC serves a network of African radio producers and , along with partner organisations on the continent , is developing training materials and resources appropriate for specific countries ' needs . |
| 9 | Although belated , the gesture will win Mr Kaifu kudos in Washington , and guarantee a warm welcome for him at the London summit of rich countries ' leaders in July . |
| 10 | The meeting denounced the contradictions of rich countries ' policies which " took with one hand — by protectionism — what they gave with the other — development aid " , while an OECD divisional head noted that " the question of migration relates directly to the need for a different co-operation and development policy and for trade liberalization " . |
| 11 | One reason why this recession is causing such alarm is that it has touched parts of rich countries ' economies that other recessions did not reach . |
| 12 | Part of the burden was thereby eventually eliminated as the prices of advanced countries ' exports to the primary producers rose — reducing the deterioration in the terms of trade . |
| 13 | Thirdly , there are many historical and current variations in different developed countries ' shares of employment in Primary , Secondary and Tertiary sectors ( Urry , 1987b ) . |
| 14 | Some banks were encouraged by industrialised countries ' governments to provide competitive financial packages to overseas buyers in order to win export contracts for their depressed manufacturing industries . |
| 15 | These countries ' agreements with the EC permit the protection of infant industries and those being ‘ restructured ’ — which covers most businesses in Eastern Europe . |
| 16 | Converting these countries ' GDPs with market exchange rates therefore systematically understates their real output . |
| 17 | Alternatively , in some countries previously without a daily paper it has been the government which has started one : there would probably be no daily newspaper in the Central African Republic , Botswana , Niger , Mauritania or Chad had each of these countries ' governments not decided to finance one . |
| 18 | As cogs in the Soviet military machine , the three countries ' armies used to sit mainly near their western borders . |
| 19 | In the opening speech , the Malaysian Prime Minister , Mahathir Mohamad , made a strongly worded attack on the rich industrialized countries ' attempts to force developing countries to compromise their economic development and foot much of the bill for environmental protection measures . |
| 20 | The multilateralism they sought to construct was a reduction and eventual abolition of all countries ' restrictions on trade and investment , such as those on the convertibility of one currency into another and on foreign investments , as well as import duties and import quotas . |
| 21 | It is that the view of Anglo-American finance as a casino full of rapacious capitalists has become popular at the same time as those countries ' companies were being taken over by the people themselves . |
| 22 | Visits were also made to Canada , to see how the implementation of a national curriculum there was affecting work in English , and to Denmark and France , to look at the teaching of Danish and French respectively , and at those countries ' arrangements for bilingual children . |
| 23 | The UK 's stock of overseas direct investments is second only to that of the United States , considerably ahead of West Germany 's and Japan 's , although those countries ' enterprises abroad have grown considerably since the 1960s . |
| 24 | By investing a few million pounds into the anti-poaching forces of Kenya and Tanzania , as is happening at the moment , we will probably reduce and even stop the poaching problem for the time being but the long-term survival of the elephant in eastern Africa is going to depend ultimately on those countries ' abilities to incorporate wildlife and wild area protection into an overall land use policy . |
| 25 | Indebted countries ' options depend on the magnitude of the debt , who lent the money in the first place , and on what terms . |
| 26 | The purpose of this attack is to weaken the economy of these [ oil-producing and Islamic ] countries and strengthen the foundations of the industrial countries ' economies . |
| 27 | Three quarters of developing countries ' earnings come from just 33 commodities , and an individual country is likely to be dependent on just two or three of these.4 |
| 28 | Developing countries ' problems to which the UK should have regard , eg poverty , forests , biodiversity |
| 29 | Indeed , people begin to talk about under-developed Britain , or under-developing Britain , so that we now do n't see this sharp division between British problems as a developed country , and developing countries ' problems in Zambia , or Chile , or wherever , or India . |
| 30 | The members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) as a whole increased exports by 8.5 per cent , but largely as a result of the weakening of crude petroleum prices ( see pp. 36056-59 ; 36573 ) showed a decline of 1.5 per cent in imports , whereas other developing countries ' exports grew by 10 per cent and their imports by 12 per cent . |