Example sentences of "[adv prt] the country [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the summer , thousands of artists up and down the country queue up with their paintings on handing-in days at local art exhibitions . |
| 2 | The occasional listings of inhabitants that survive for places up and down the country make it clear that older married people did not live with their married children , though they were often housed nearby . |
| 3 | I suspect that , when people up and down the country realise the sheer horror of what is being proposed , they will recoil from such an open-ended commitment for massive local government spending . |
| 4 | Many of the suspicions which existed when the unit was set up , both about the political motivation for its creation and the likely effects of national monitoring on the curriculum , have been allayed ( if not entirely put to rest ) by the way in which the exercise has been carried out , by the sensitivities displayed by the monitoring teams , by the way in which groups of teachers up and down the country have been involved in the development , trialling and pre-testing of materials , and by the cool , impartial way in which the results have been presented . |
| 5 | Whatever the British weather has thrown at them , flower growers up and down the country produce their best for the Chelsea Flower Show . |