Example sentences of "in most countries [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most countries persecution was pre-emptively instigated by an elite which had identified the threat to its position from worker or peasant organisation , rather than constituting a defensive reaction to Communist activity itself . |
| 2 | In most countries women are glad to have jobs in factories and to earn cash , however tedious the work and however low their earnings are relative to male wages ( but not to previous or alternative female pay ) . |
| 3 | In most countries north of the Alps wine was the luxury of the rich , even though most of the wine drunk at this time was what we should call ‘ vin ordinaire ’ ; and even communion wine ( which had done so much to foster the growth of the northern vineyards ) was drunk less and less by the laity in these centuries , until communion in one kind became the rule . |
| 4 | In most countries people understand taxes to refer to everything from income tax and inheritance tax through VAT and petrol tax to compulsory social security contributions . |
| 5 | In most countries people compelled by poverty to ask for social assistance have to show that their families , wherever they may be living , can not support them . |