Example sentences of "in this country [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For too long in this country we have pushed parental responsibility into the sidelines . |
| 2 | In this country we can count our blessings that our children are not constantly at the mercy of these diseases . |
| 3 | Indeed , in this country we have a conciliation service , known by its initials as ACAS , which is a forum whereby representatives can get together and make demands , counter demands and eventually — and hopefully — reach solutions . |
| 4 | It seems that every few decades in this country we have a major battle over divorce law reform . |
| 5 | In this country we are not accustomed to the threat of rabies ; it is not the same abroad . |
| 6 | IN THIS COUNTRY we first knew Krzysztof Kieslowski as director and co-writer of two imaginative but sharply realistic pieces : A Short Film About Killing , a painful record of capital punishment , and A Short Film About Love , a study of a misunderstood attachment ; both dealt with concrete interpretations of the Ten Commandments . |
| 7 | In this country we can kill people on the roads and walk free , and rape women and get away with around four years in prison — yet we have the cheek to call the Saudis barbaric . |
| 8 | As a result in this country we have had a heavy tax burden and a structure of taxation which is a major disincentive to take risk , to invest and even to work . |
| 9 | In this country we discovered the value of prevention and rehabilitation in the 1950s and 1960s and our belief in permanence achieved through working with a child in his own family was given legal sanction in Section 1 of the 1963 Act . |
| 10 | Falls to thirty two degrees centigrade or ninety degrees fahrenheit the following can occur and that 's a big drop , that 's a drop of five degrees in this country we 're very used to rapid temperature changes in our environment in the spring you can have frost in the morning and it can get really quite hot by the afternoon , sometimes up to about seventy ca n't it ? |
| 11 | In this country we have lost many rituals that in the past supported us through the various stages of grief . |
| 12 | In this country we employ 50,000 people in a number of locations . |
| 13 | We 've also had significant growth in our chain store business in this country we 've signed a new two-year contract with Air Canada and we 're much more optimistic about the rest of the year we 've got orders , production and sales all nicely in equilibrium ready for the second half . |
| 14 | I mean it may well be that we have in this country we have erm pretty much Mill 's system because MPs get paid relatively little bearing in mind what most of them could be getting elsewhere , so maybe we 've got something like Mill 's system but it strikes us as rather a bizarre suggestion that MPs should n't be paid to prevent adventurous and lower classes becoming MPs . |
| 15 | In this country we are always happiest with figurative art . |
| 16 | Surely , in this country we have to obey the laws that are there , not the laws that are going some day to be passed . |
| 17 | When the honourable gentleman said I gave no information I said I intended to talk about jobs and in this country we believe , we believe that er there are three things very important a at this forthcoming summit . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ In this country we tend to take our democratic rights for granted but this event gives Cleveland people a chance to make it clear they value those rights and believe that everyone in South Africa should have them too . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ In this country we tend to neglect our manufacturing industries in favour of service industries such as banking and insurance . |
| 20 | In this country we call it Medau Breathing Movement , and by ‘ breathing movement ’ we mean internal movement of the trunk , which starts with the rising and falling of the diaphragm and then communicates itself to the abdominal walls , pelvic floor , the whole back and as far as the collar bone . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , in this country we were badly served by the press ! |
| 22 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
| 23 | In this country they say that if you do n't like the weather all you have to do is wait five minutes and it will get better . |
| 24 | In this country they followed still later ; at Oxford in 1621 , Edinburgh in 1670 and Chelsea in 1673 . |
| 25 | When rabbits were first released in this country they were freed into man-made warrens — artificial holes covered over with a pyramid of cordwood which in turn was covered with faggots . |
| 26 | I mean do n't forget do n't forget do n't forget when everybody was wearing their sickles and hammers in this country they had millionaires in Russia . |
| 27 | Arriving in this country they established themselves as farmers and in the early 19th century they farmed at Allington Castle and then travelled through various parts of England as farmers until arriving back in Kent . |
| 28 | And I was n't long in this country they shoved me over , Normandy , on the landing in Normandy . |
| 29 | They have to be outstanding academically , and must show that having served pupillage and completed a limited period of practice in this country they intend subsequently to return to their country of origin , and that the experience of English pupillage and practice will be of significant benefit in establishing a practice in their home country . |
| 30 | They need clothes for the prisoners as well as paper , pens , paint , in fact anything that we might find to be surplus in this country they could use , ’ he said . |