Example sentences of "with its [adj] neighbour " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Vietnamese government 's increased willingness to accept forced repatriations in the face of known US disapproval was believed to stem from its desire to improve ties with its ASEAN neighbours following the signing of the Cambodian peace accord in Paris on Oct. 23 [ see p. 38511 ] . |
| 2 | Liechtenstein would now need a modification in the legal basis of its relationship with its Swiss neighbour ; under the 1923 agreement creating a customs union , it could not join any treaty to which Switzerland did not also adhere . |
| 3 | That same year , France reopened the border and concluded a trading agreement with its southern neighbour . |
| 4 | What is often overlooked because of Cuba 's active ( although never particularly substantial ) support for armed struggle in Latin America later in the 1960s is that , initially , the Castro regime made consistent attempts to build diplomatic relations with its hemispheric neighbours . |
| 5 | No parse structure is produced , instead each candidate word is assigned a score indicating the goodness of fit with its possible neighbours . |
| 6 | More imaginatively , it might also provide a precedent for associating the DDR with its German-speaking neighbours within an EC without recreating a sovereign unified Germany . |
| 7 | Each processor on the network runs its own copy of the 13Kb microkernel and when a new thread is started , the kernel on that chip compares its loading with its immediate neighbours . |
| 8 | Interesting results emerge when we place these ‘ players ’ — who may be individuals or organized groups — on a two-dimensional , nxn square lattice of ‘ patches ’ : each lattice-site is thus occupied either by a C or a D. In each round of our game ( or at each time step , or each generation ) , each patch-owner plays the game with its immediate neighbours . |
| 9 | Each processor on the network runs its own copy of the 13Kb microkernel and when a new thread is started , the kernel on that chip compares its loading with its immediate neighbours . |
| 10 | Czechoslovakia also sought to create bilateral agreements with its immediate neighbours in central and eastern Europe , but a number of disputes continued to affect relationships . |
| 11 | South Africa seldom plays fair with its black neighbours . |
| 12 | Norway 's suspicions were soon set aside , and the country joined with its two neighbours in setting up a Nordic Council in 1952 . |
| 13 | Good idea : this would extend the tourist season into late summer and autumn and bring Britain more into line with its European neighbours . |
| 14 | The two main frontier posts with France — Irun-Hendaye at the western end of the Pyrenees , and Port Bou at the eastern extreme — remained in government hands , thus ensuring the Republic 's surface communications with its European neighbours . |
| 15 | President Mitterrand took the opportunity of his visit to President Gorbachev in Kiev this week to spell out his insistence on the inviolability of Germany 's frontiers with its eastern neighbours and emphasise East German democratisation rather than German reunification . |
| 16 | Israel 's uniqueness stems from the fact that it considers itself to be in a perpetual state of war with its Arab neighbours which , together with the Nazi barbarities of the last war , is somehow supposed to make the rest of the world feel permanently sorry for Israel and give it the right to carry out any intelligence operations it likes . |
| 17 | Syrian relations with its Arab neighbours and the West altered dramatically in the aftermath of Iraq 's annexation of Kuwait in early August [ see pp. 37631-41 ] . |
| 18 | After the expiry of the Palestine mandate entrusted to Britain at the 1920 San Remo conference , the state of Israel , founded in May 1948 and since then cherished and sustained by jews all over the world , entered the state of war with its Arab neighbours which has persisted ever since , further stimulated by the activities of Palestinian militants and their sympathizers both in the occupied territories and farther afield . |
| 19 | In the last few years , South Africa , though a rich country compared with its northern neighbours , has none the less been hit by international economic trends , including declining gold prices , as well as by pressures of sanctions . |
| 20 | The Gulf war and its attendant debate over the dispatching of Japanese troops overseas also affected Japan 's relationship with its Asian neighbours , many of whom expressed fears that such a development might be the first step towards a resurgence of military power commensurate with the country 's huge economic strength . |
| 21 | In an attempt to compensate for the reduction of Soviet aid the government made serious efforts during 1990 to improve economic relations with its Asian neighbours , including Thailand , Indonesia and Taiwan . |
| 22 | Dependent on the pipeline through Turkey for its oil exports , Iraq complied with its big neighbour 's wish and dropped the Kurdish deal . |
| 23 | Now , with its near neighbour the yacht club , it caters for nautical types of the amateur sort who enjoy messing about in boats . |
| 24 | Thus a gold or purple-leaved shrub is best used not as an alternative to green foliage , but as a specimen highlight whose beauty depends on the contrast with its green neighbours . |
| 25 | The ‘ village ’ of Trebetherick has a rarefied air ; it keeps apart and does not like to mix with its brash neighbour Polzeath , whose villas are shoulder to shoulder , nor with the heartier village of Rock , where strong men sail small boats . |