Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] an international " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But they 'd care about Doyle , gunned down by an international terrorist . |
| 2 | I 'M ASHAMED to be the first Scotland captain sent off in an international match . |
| 3 | Before he died in 1983 , Swire had the exhilarating experience of watching one of his Cathay Pacific aircraft landing at Gatwick airport , the first of innumerable scheduled passenger flights from and to Hong Kong by the airline he had built up as an international enterprise . |
| 4 | Heath and his colleagues next abolished the parliament and constitution of Northern Ireland in defiance of all Commonwealth constitutional precedent and despite the fact that the action was a unilateral tearing up of an international treaty registered at the League of Nations . |
| 5 | By 1907 ITF activity was regarded by the shipowners as sufficiently serious to justify the setting up of an International Shipping Federation " to combat the growing forces of socialism and aggressive trade unionism " , but in reality it had made little progress in establishing international standards and the British market for seamen was still being substantially undercut by lower rates of pay of foreign labour . |
| 6 | They feared that , without proper cover , the City would lose out as an international financial centre as large overseas institutions moved their European offices to less-exposed capitals . |
| 7 | Undoubtedly we are living through a period of considerable political instability , in which there is a complex ‘ crisis of legitimacy ’ ( to use Habermas ' expression ) not only in the capitalist societies but also in the former communist societies of Eastern Europe , and in many countries of the Third World ; but the crisis works itself out through an international system of relationships , and such events as the overthrow of President Allende 's government in Chile , or American and Soviet military intervention in various regions of the world in the postwar period , can not be fully comprehended unless they are seen in the setting of global political conflicts . |
| 8 | ‘ My colleagues and I will be very interested , ’ he said sourly , ‘ to know what kind of propaganda that red magazine you work for can make out of an international survey of prospective parents . ’ |
| 9 | This uncompromising line by the main resistance groups implies that the USSR would need to maintain a political and military commitment to any Afghan regime which includes a PDPA component and emerges out of an international settlement . |
| 10 | GOALKEEPER Stephen Pears goes into hospital tomorrow for an operation on a cheekbone injury that has ruled him out of an international debut next week . |
| 11 | The plant is due to close next month as one of the solvents used in the process there , carbon tetrachloride , is being phased out under an international agreement to limit use of chemicals which damage the ozone layer . |
| 12 | But the plan has foundered in the EC 's demand for a general liability clause , a feature that has proved difficult to sort out on an international level . |
| 13 | It is high time the variable quality of international referees and the anomalies that abound in interpretation were sorted out by an International Board Survey . |
| 14 | But Mann has battled through everything to make a visually stunning piece of cinema that has launched a notoriously shy and guarded actor on to an international career as a leading man . |
| 15 | Place the slide or peel mount into the negative carrier of a photographic enlarger and project the image on to an international A4 size sheet of printing paper of appropriate grade , determine the exposure and print two copies . |