Example sentences of "[noun pl] of a country " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irena took an unofficial day off work and we wandered through the damp streets while she told me about being a student at Palacky University in 1968 ( and what happened afterwards : ‘ It is strange how the history books of a country can change , is n't it ? ’ ) . |
| 2 | On the other hand , in 1806 no less a person than James Clark , farrier to the King in Scotland , in his First Lines of Veterinary Physiology and Pathology wrote that the healing art , and the art of shoeing , would and should necessarily continue as two linked aspects of a country veterinary practitioner 's work . |
| 3 | Comparative findings might be used for normative , or even polemical , purposes in order to support or oppose certain aspects of a country 's domestic industrial relations policy . |
| 4 | Which of these aspects of a country walk would you miss the most ? |
| 5 | Deep divisions in the democratic institutions of a country favour an accretion of power to the civil service . |
| 6 | Klima 's stories breathe a delicate patriotism — which is not absent , either , from Kundera 's accounts of a country which is harder to inhabit , or remain in , or return to . |
| 7 | But where the political and social values of a country redefine the function of a school , as they have done in Tanzania , or , as with the growth of universal primary education , it becomes more obvious that the school is not mainly an escape route out of the village and on to secondary and higher education , so the separateness may become less pronounced and the desire for integration more genuine . |
| 8 | Ultimately , the pattern of management applied depends on the history , culture , and social values of a country . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The British photographer Paul Graham is adept at capturing the concrete but almost imperceptible signs of a country 's social unease and inherited mental attitudes . |
| 11 | The prevalent structural forms of a country 's trade union movement have a number of important consequences . |
| 12 | This was the permissive factor which allowed the military needs of the state to be met from the indirect taxation of a wide range of consumer goods , which in turn funded the wartime borrowing needs of a country taking an increasing part in the state system of Europe . |
| 13 | While thousands of miles away her countrymen were revelling in the celebrations for Australia 's 200th anniversary , she enjoyed the historic sights of a country with a slightly richer heritage . |
| 14 | Actuarial predictions of a country 's mortality record are now very reliable , but it is at least a theoretical risk that the record could deteriorate unexpectedly . |
| 15 | The expanding Russian empire was showing an increasing interest in Northeast Asia , and China was likely to challenge any attempt by Japan to intervene in the affairs of a country which for centuries had been her foremost tributary . |
| 16 | The book first appeared in 1953 and was produced under the difficult conditions of a country still emerging from the ruins of World War II . |
| 17 | I sat and tried to stay calm turning the pages of a Country Life so old it was still selling off prefabs . |
| 18 | The extended family system in some LDCs encourages bribery in public services and , perhaps , preferential central government treatment for certain regions of a country . |
| 19 | Indeed it is ironic that the weaker regions of a country tend to " catch-up " most in times of expansion , and yet it is partly because of the regional differences that inflationary pressures emerge and induce policies which prevent further gains . |
| 20 | For the wider economic and political interests of a country may be in complete conflict with the wishes and needs of a constituent community which an anthropologist happens to have studied . |
| 21 | Gerard Fusil was only too aware of the dangers the 175 racers faced between the Caribbean and the Pacific coasts of a country aptly nicknamed the Switzerland of Central America . |
| 22 | Although I knew most of these countries from my naval days , the perspective one gains visiting the coasts of a country as a sailor is very different from the view of the businessman . |
| 23 | When the inhabitants of a country were nomadic they had to be tied down in order to ensure that the land was properly exploited , but because in Russia they were predominantly sedentary state institutions could monitor their activity . |
| 24 | What became known as the Naythuyein Mass Meeting heard Aung San speak about the Burmese contribution to the Allied cause ; he saw Labour 's victory as a sign that imperialism was on the way out and he affirmed that ‘ 99 per cent of the PBF would be unwilling to serve in the fighting forces of a country that was not free ’ . |
| 25 | For most Germans it was bewildering that they should suffer such losses at the hands of a country that had not existed for over 100 years . |
| 26 | With such scenes as these continually around me , is it surprising that I should have entertained the idea of collecting examples of the indigenous Mammals of a country whose ornithological productions I had gone out expressly to investigate ? … ’ |
| 27 | He has acquired an autonomy and influence staggering even by the standards of a country where anomalies are institutionalised . |
| 28 | Whatever the policies and commitments of a country 's past and current governments may be , it is not possible to exclude the possibility that some future government will not alter the " irrevocably fixed " exchange rates of its currency , or impose restrictions on the movement of capital and , thus , secede from the exchange rate union . |
| 29 | Major rejects claims of a country in decline |
| 30 | The spokesman , Rafi Horowitz , was wrong when he said that Palestinians could not claim their lands because they were citizens of a country at war with Israel . |