Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] country which " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 45th meeting of the International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) ended in Kyoto , Japan , in defeat for countries which had sought a lifting of the moratorium on commercial whaling [ see ED 70 ] . |
| 2 | How quickly , though , and whether there will be sufficient incentive to produce in bulk for countries which are unable to pay are different matters . |
| 3 | There is , too , another marked feature of this piece of country which is characteristic of all country enclosed from open fields or common of any kind . |
| 4 | Or perhaps they were still wandering in that long stretch of country which lay between New York and the State of Wisconsin ? |
| 5 | Steadily , quietly , till we stumble on their existence with shocked surprise , pit after pit has been sunk and worked in the beautiful stretch of country which covers the eastern half of the county of Nottingham . |
| 6 | The US Congress was empowered to stop military aid to countries which flout international sanctions against arms sales to South Africa . |
| 7 | An extreme form of the first is the fur trapper in the Russian and Canadian Arctic who lays a line of traps across country which he visits once a fortnight collecting the victims who have died a slow and agonising death with one or two legs caught in a gin trap . |
| 8 | It will all depend on the choice to be made by the national legislatures , and in the case of countries which make the third choice the employee 's option not to transfer may give the worker no more than he or she already has under the Mikkelsen doctrine i.e. the option of going over or resigning from employment with the transferor . |
| 9 | China has had the status since 1980 , when America waived a law ( originally intended to benefit Soviet Jews ) that prohibits MFN for countries which restrict emigration . |
| 10 | Observers noted that the open skies treaty would offer a source of information on military movements for countries which lacked a satellite capability , the main means by which the USA and the Soviet Union gathered such intelligence on each other in the past . |
| 11 | There will be moves to tighten up this part of the bill in the Commons to try to stop some of the waste imports from countries which can dispose of them but find it politically expedient to export them . |
| 12 | But Kuwait 's oil minister , Ali Ahmad al-Baghli , said later that GCC members could tax imports from countries which imposed an energy tax in line with a pledge by the council to protect oil interests by ensuring a continued flow of supplies to markets without restrictions . |
| 13 | For example , they associate liberal democracy with the core countries , arguing that such a system is only sustainable over substantial periods in countries which are exploiting the entire world-system , and can ‘ buy-off ’ popular demands from their own residents because of the wealth that is being appropriated from other countries . |
| 14 | A further striking difference between countries which is partly cultural in origin can be found in the differing legal rules which apply to business relationships . |
| 15 | It is the governments of countries which do not manufacture them — The Netherlands and Denmark , for instance — which press hardest for action . |
| 16 | As one examines the record of countries which have officially adopted the Marxist — Leninist doctrine , one tends to observe in all cases a triad of outcomes — economic inefficiency , religious persecution and political terror . |
| 17 | ‘ The EC should have controls by which it does not to business with countries which do not keep people to a minimum standard , he said . |
| 18 | At the beginning of the year , the Dutch government bowed to consumer pressure and banned all imports of tropical hardwood from countries which lack effective forestry management schemes . |
| 19 | However , it reduces trade barriers between members of the CU and generally stimulates inter-bloc trade and reduces the share of trade with countries which are not in the Union . |
| 20 | A Muslim cleric whose Friday sermon was broadcast on Libyan television warned diplomats from countries which voted in favour of UN sanctions against Libya to flee . |
| 21 | LIBYA reaffirmed its determination yesterday to fight United Nations sanctions and said it would expel diplomats from countries which have taken action against it . |
| 22 | We will stop sales to countries which might use them for internal repression or international aggression . |
| 23 | In late March the US Senate had introduced an amendment barring arms sales to countries which had failed to keep up contributions to US Gulf war costs . |
| 24 | The Financial Times of June 28 described this review clause " ploy " as designed " to hold out the hope to countries which feel their aspirations unsatisfied in this constitutional revision that they may do better next time " . |
| 25 | The USA had also resisted including the " most favoured nation " principle for services on a global basis , which would require that countries treated all trading partners alike ; the USA wanted to be free to discriminate in favour of countries which opened their markets to US services [ see also pp. 37228-29 ] . |
| 26 | A major subject of discussion within GATT in 1989 was the application of the so-called " Super-301 " procedure under the US 1988 Trade Act , providing for retaliatory unilateral sanctions against countries which themselves applied allegedly unfair trade practices against US goods and services , unless those countries modified their own practices within a given period of time . |
| 27 | They are political constraints , particularly with the U N , they are political ones when one considers government to government aid , I mean at the moment for instance the British Administration will only give large , significant amounts of emergency relief to countries which are already recipients of British development aid . |
| 28 | The US administration announced on Nov. 18 that President George Bush had vetoed legislation imposing mandatory trade sanctions on countries which used chemical weapons , or companies which assisted in the development of such weapons . |
| 29 | Under Maastricht ( Article 104C ) , it is , for instance , proposed that the authorities in Brussels should be able to impose fines on countries which do not obey the edicts of EEC institutions . |
| 30 | If fast breeders proliferate how can the spread of plutonium to countries which would have no scruples about making their own nuclear weapons be checked ? |