Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] nation " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And Zimbabwe have got a very good chance of qualifying for the African Nations Cup AND the World Cup . ’ |
| 2 | And now for the Zulu nation ( O A Cleary , 1 March , and D A Smith , 5 March ) : journalists in 1991 exposed the clandestine funding of the Inkatha Freedom Party by the National Party , dubbed ‘ Inkathagate ’ . |
| 3 | The temptation for the rich nations will be to avoid or limit them by deferring expenditures on pre-emptive measures which will add up at home to taxes , higher energy costs and technology transfers to poor countries striving to compete with the donors . |
| 4 | A vast majority of Arab leaders and Arab people have made it clear that the invasion of Kuwait is an issue for the Arab nation to resolve , but to no avail . |
| 5 | As expenditures on arms decline with the ending of the cold war , there may be more money available for aid , but democratic politics being what they are , few would care to bet on it ; certainly not on any percentage saved being set aside for the developing nations . |
| 6 | Scotland 's coach , Ian McGeechan , made the pertinent point that fixtures against Fiji and Romania had provided a valuable contrast of styles , expansive and then forward dominated , that were useful preparation for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 7 | He played against the touring Western Samoa and Italy sides that same season and it was not until 1989 that he got his chance for a full tenure for the Five Nations games . |
| 8 | For Scotland it 's now a case of rebuilding for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 9 | WALES flanker Emyr Lewis , out of action since aggravating a shoulder injury last month , could struggle to be fit for the Five Nations match against England in Cardiff on February 6 . |
| 10 | LIVERPOOL 'S David Matthews has replaced Fred Howard on England 's three-man referees ' panel for the Five Nations ' Championship . |
| 11 | I hope he scores a try and if he keeps his place for the Five Nations at my expense , good luck to him . ’ |
| 12 | Therefore , I am in agreement with Mr. Porter in that I believe referees from other rugby nations , such as Fiji , Australia , Argentina etc. , should be selected for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 13 | But , more than that , his predilection for Neath players deprived the club of their own best talent so that when they would otherwise have been training for the league , instead they were training for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 14 | That was certainly the prevalent mood when England , confident of again sorting out the beleaguered Irish , and at least making the French work for the Five Nations Cup , took the field at Lansdowne Road with a side apparently brimful with Lions for New Zealand . |
| 15 | Or rather , according to Mazzini , it includes the totality of such a population : ‘ Every nation a state and only one state for the entire nation . ’ |
| 16 | Any time you have something such as the Rodney King incident on video tape for the entire nation to see , and the jurors somehow arrive at a verdict of not guilty , it is obvious that the system is not based on truth or justice at all . |
| 17 | Typical of Geoff 's talent was the opening goal he scored to set us on the way to a Wembley victory over Everton in the Zenith Data Systems Cup Final in April 1991 , cleaving his way though The Toffees ' defence to head home from a corner and , perhaps partly because of Palace 's and Geoff 's success at Wembley , he was awarded his first full International cap when England travelled to Turkey for the European Nations Championship tie on May Day 1991 . |
| 18 | Paul Floyd and Lee Cooke ( Middlesbrough ) are in the squad of 16 from which the team of 13 will be selected for the four nations contest against Belgium , Holland and Tunisia in Charleroi , Belgium , on May 1–3 . |
| 19 | Cedric goes home Mystery surrounds the recent recall to New York of Cedric Thornberry , the Northern Ireland-born bon vivant and occasional spokesman for the United Nations in Namibia . |
| 20 | Before going into the cosmetic business she was a teacher , and worked for the United Nations in Geneva . |
| 21 | The chaos in Afghanistan may sound the death knell for the United Nations peace plan , which hoped to effect a smooth transition to an interim administration . |
| 22 | After Eden had returned from the House , there might be another meeting of Suez Ministers at about 4.30 or 5.00 pm , and another between 10.00 and 11.00 pm , to give Sir Pierson Dixon in New York his final briefing for the United Nations , which would come to the boil about 12.30 or 1.00 am in our time , i.e. 7.30 to 8.00 in New York . |
| 23 | Late in 1939 Jack Radford was moved back to Toronto and he was sorely missed ; he was succeeded by Peter Aylen who proved a most satisfactory station manager for a year until he also was transferred back east and shortly took over the post as Director of Radio for the United Nations Organization in New York . |
| 24 | Audrey , 63 , is desperate to go back to work — campaigning for the United Nations Children 's Fund . |
| 25 | Members of the Cheshire Regiment were ready to enter Karaula , where 45 people had been wounded by Serbian shelling , said a spokesman for the United Nations protection force . |
| 26 | The star of My Fair Lady and Breakfast at Tiffany 's visited the country as goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Children 's Fund . |
| 27 | The death on May 4th of Haruyuki Takata , an unarmed policeman in Cambodia , also led the Japanese government to order all its people working for the United Nations there back to the capital , Phnom Penh . |
| 28 | In April 1945 , Truman 's government played host to representatives from 50 countries at San Francisco who had met to draw up the Charter for the United Nations . |
| 29 | As for the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea , signed at Montego Bay on 10 December 1982 ( Cmnd. 8941 ) , of which the Community is a signatory but which has not yet entered into force , it contains provisions similar to article 5(1) of the Geneva Convention of 1958 ( see articles 91 and 94 ) . |
| 30 | In the speech Gorbachev expressed his personal support for the United Nations , which had ‘ increasingly manifested its ability to act as a unique international centre in the service of peace and security ’ , and repeated his belief that the most important issues that faced the world community were global rather than regional in character . |