Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of a country [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Historical metaphors can never do justice to the complexity of a country 's past , but at this early stage of my trip I felt I was beginning to discern a snake 's energy and inertia in Peru 's past . |
| 2 | The names and addresses of these bureaux are listed in Appendix I. A Green Card furnished at frontiers ensures smooth passage establishing as it does the existence of a country 's compulsory motor insurance . |
| 3 | In addition , money is the unit used in the financial accounts of all businesses and , for example , in expressing the values of a country 's national income and balance of payments . |
| 4 | The NEAP process involves : ( i ) the identification of a country 's environmental conditions and specific problems ; ( ii ) preparation of proposals to overcome the problems ; and ( iii ) formulation of a plan of action to deal with them over a specific period of time . |
| 5 | This is not a consideration which applies to other factors of production : there is far less concern about the proportion of a country 's capital stock which is lying idle than there is about the proportion of the labour force which is unemployed . |
| 6 | The general rule is that the efficiency of a country 's intelligence operations is in inverse proportion to the number of agencies it operates . |
| 7 | But the state of a country 's mental health lies not only in the fate of its hospital patients but also in the general condition of its people . |
| 8 | The state of a country 's trading balance on a geographical basis may direct our attention to the condition of the trade balance with the rest of the world . |
| 9 | Narin 's seminal Report to the Foundation , carried out by Computer Horizons Inc. on data from the Science Citation Index , represents the first major effort by any country 's scientific policy-makers , to use bibliometric indicators to forecast and plan research expenditure on a national scale , although Price had , in 1969 , related the size of a country 's scientific literature to its Gross National Product ( GNP ) . |
| 10 | National competitiveness — if that is defined as the ability of a country 's firms to compete in world markets , whether through export or overseas production — may be more important , at least to businessmen . |
| 11 | Since we now have three different measures for the value of a country 's total output , we also have three different names which we could use to describe that output . |
| 12 | In most countries bank deposits transferred by means of cheques are freely accepted in the discharge of debts and as such constitute as much a part of a country 's money supply as its bank notes . |
| 13 | It provides a measure of a country 's export competitiveness : a rise in the index implies a fall in competitiveness , and vice versa . |
| 14 | A surplus may be taken as an indication of a country 's ability to service its external debt , whereas a deficit might imply , if not corrected or offset by capital inflows , future debt servicing problems . |