Example sentences of "[coord] [adv prt] the country " in BNC.
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| 1 | Needless to say , that ‘ artist ’ was not selected by Nikki Milican — the festival 's director — who attended hundreds of events up and down the country . |
| 2 | It even admitted that there were ‘ problems ’ — a slight euphemism , given the tens of thousands of people who had attended mass protests up and down the country — and hinted that the government might be to blame . |
| 3 | Voluntary organisations up and down the country , from the Samaritans to the Women 's Royal Voluntary Service , were standing by to help bereaved families . |
| 4 | They raised money in a variety of ways , from auctioning sketches of Picasso 's Guernica to showing , up and down the country , the films The Defence of Madrid and Spanish Earth . |
| 5 | Up and down the country mini-celebrations occurred in what the official guide called in that unmistakeable paternalistic tone of the period , ‘ spontaneous expressions of citizenship ’ . |
| 6 | These were small events but when repeated up and down the country , they amounted to a vast change in Nonconformist attitudes towards worship . |
| 7 | Simplicity and ceremonial seem to express the changing pattern of Nonconformist worship but that worship was only part of a wider search for dignity , a dignity which was mainly realized in the new and improved buildings Nonconformity was erecting up and down the country . |
| 8 | IT WAS a scene enacted up and down the country on the last Saturday before polling day . |
| 9 | He disputed poll suggestions that a hung parliament was the most likely outcome , pointing to Labour 's strong showing in individual constituency surveys up and down the country . |
| 10 | Even the logistics involved in transporting journalists and television crews up and down the country by bus and plane and , on one day , over the Channel by catamaran , worked smoothly . |
| 11 | To establish the audience ( and its socio-economic composition ) for television programmes , the Broadcasters ' Audience Research Board has installed special sets and hand-held key pads known as ‘ people meters ’ in homes up and down the country . |
| 12 | Though this Evangelical triumphalism has yet to come to pass , the curious state of affairs already exists in which parents , up and down the country , fear the caring professionals as never before and fear the overtly Christian carers most of all . |
| 13 | Hundreds of ballet classes exist up and down the country , but this one , in Shepherd 's Bush , west London , is special : many of the children are black . |
| 14 | Up and down the country , sixteen booksellers from John Waghorn in Durham to Benjamin Smythurst in Plymouth , from William Eaton in Yarmouth to Samuel Lobb in Bath , were interested and Thomas Howard in York invested in three copies . |
| 15 | Such symptoms — repeated at places up and down the country — were exactly those to be seen throughout northern and central Europe . |
| 16 | But this was , as I say , back in the thirties , when as I understand , Mrs Symons 's books were being admired in houses up and down the country . |
| 17 | There will then be all sorts of rumours buzzing through servants ' halls up and down the country to the effect that he has been approached by this or that personage or that several of the highest houses are competing for his services with wildly high wages . |
| 18 | Harrison spent much time visiting other clinics up and down the country advising on how they might be run more efficiently . |
| 19 | Whether this has any foundation in science or whether it reflects the old-fashioned ‘ punitive ’ approach , men up and down the country , known for their ten-pint capacity or love for fine wine , are receiving old-fashioned looks as they ask for a half-pint of lime juice or a tonic on its own . |
| 20 | Allegations about racial harassment simmer away in the background , unhelped by the tiny number of non-whites in police forces up and down the country . |
| 21 | Not all of them would be learning the same thing , parrot-fashion , up and down the country . |
| 22 | The seasoned rockers and cabaret bores at the local pub would appreciate the fact they have travelled up and down the country , playing every decrepit club and hovel on the way . |
| 23 | Chubby is something of a phenomena , being one of the few stand up comedians able to sell out theatres up and down the country having had very little television exposure . |
| 24 | Anyone who does not possess a fax machine of their own can use their local printer or British Telecom 's Bureaufax service which is run from offices up and down the country . |
| 25 | After the cessation of hostilities , there were hundreds of aircrew cooling their heels in airfields up and down the country with nothing much to do . |
| 26 | He had a host of admirers up and down the country , including such subscribers as His Majesty 's Library , and figures such as H. R. H. The Prince Regent , the Archduke of Austria , Lord Dalhousie , Lord Clifford , the Rt . |
| 27 | Wilson appointed Dick Crossman Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Science , and encouraged him to spearhead some 40 conferences , up and down the country , to encourage an exchange of ideas . |
| 28 | The Department of Industry provides CAD information centres up and down the country to give the tyro some help . |
| 29 | Perhaps people would get the message if the Pimlico Connection had more imitators up and down the country . |
| 30 | Every February , like thousands of others artists up and down the country , I have to decide which of my paintings to submit to the Royal Academy ; you are allowed to send in a maximum of three works for which you pay a fee of £9 each . |