Example sentences of "our country " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a measure would be an insult to our Faith ; it would without question prove to be gravely damaging to morality , private and public ; it would be , and would remain , a curse upon our country . |
| 2 | He also instructed his parish priests in a letter , leaked to the Irish Times , to have the bishops pastoral Marriage , the Family and Divorce distributed to every home in the archdiocese along with special bidding prayers invoking divine protection for marriages and the guidance of Holy Spirit ‘ at this critical time of decision for families and our country ’ ( Irish Times , 17 May 1986 ) . |
| 3 | Our country has more than enough pubs whose ruined interiors fail to live up to the promise of attractive historic frontages . |
| 4 | BRIGHTON : ‘ We are fit to serve our country , ’ said Neil Kinnock , the Labour Party leader , in the peroration to the peroration of an epic speech to conference . |
| 5 | The party was ‘ not only telling itself , but exuding to the British public the feeling that we are fit to serve our country ’ , he said . |
| 6 | ‘ We seek the power in order to do all that , to stop being spectators and start being negotiators , to take our country off the sidelines and put it in the mainstream of advance where it should rightly be . |
| 7 | Concluding , Mr Kinnock looked beyond the conference : ‘ It is an encouragement , an inspiration to see this party working together , coming to a joint position on objectives , and of not only telling itself , but exuding to the British public the feeling that we are fit to serve our country . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science because if we carry on like the Tories are , our country is going to be shoved down to the second or third division of modern industrial nations ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ In full awareness of our responsibility , we reject the policies of the present leadership which are diverting our country from the socialist path and leading it into catastrophe . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Negotiations which exclude the legitimate leaders of our people , which the government appears to be contemplating , will intensify , not resolve , our country 's crisis . ’ |
| 11 | As for government mistakes , he said : ‘ I think that as a consequence of the Stock Exchange crash in 1987 , when the richest countries in the world all decided collectively to avoid a 1930s-type recession , and collectively there was an expansionist policy followed across the world and the tap marked ‘ money ’ was turned on , perhaps that tap was left on too long ; not only in our country but in other countries as well . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I am fasting because , unlike our state media , I am worried about the great number of people who have left our country . |
| 13 | It is worth noting that there are few narrow political aims involved , and that repeated reference is made to ‘ our country ’ : East Germany . |
| 14 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
| 15 | ‘ The main thing is perhaps the fact that we are now having a fresh look , without blinkers , at ourselves and our country , ’ he said . |
| 16 | ‘ Significant errors ’ had been committed by the party ‘ to the detriment of our country ’ . |
| 17 | Timberlake Wertenbaker 's award-winning Our Country 's Good moves from the Royal Court to the Garrick : if you have n't seen it already , not to be missed . |
| 18 | Nabil Shaban in Nativity ; Tricycle : see Theatre Seamus Newham , The Vanek Plays ; Soho Poly : see Theatre Suzanne Packer and Clive Russell in Our Country 's Good ; Garrick : see Critics ' choice Reg Stewart and Howard Crossley in Ca n't Pay ? |
| 19 | TODAY , De Klerk talks about beach apartheid and Separate Amenities Act , but what about those pillars of apartheid like the Group Areas Act , the Population Registration Act and the very fundamental laws that govern the political life of our country ? |
| 20 | What is the use of going to open beaches when we must return to segregated residential areas and schools and suffer under the laws that make the best medical treatment the prerogative of the whites only in our country ? |
| 21 | What is the point of bathing together in the beaches when in fact we can not sit together to make the laws of our country ? |
| 22 | But these campaigns have never been isolated from the fundamental issue of power , the issue of who rules our country , who has this right to make and unmake the law . |
| 23 | The only National Front MP elected in last year 's general election , Mrs Yann Piat , said she resigned from the party a year ago because she ‘ realised that the Front was a dead-end movement and a danger to our country . ’ |
| 24 | Only together can we maintain the sovereignty of the GDR and save our country from anarchy and chaos , ’ it said . |
| 25 | Only together can we maintain the sovereignty of the GDR and save our country from anarchy and chaos , ’ it said . |
| 26 | Only together can we maintain the sovereignty of the GDR and save our country from anarchy and chaos , ’ the statement said . |
| 27 | So it was interesting to hear this week from Mrs Bolton of Wildlife In Need in the north of our country that she has recently saved the life of a six-month old roe doe fawn . |
| 28 | With BCM delegates reserving their position , the remaining delegates adopted the Harare declaration and further resolved to call for a ‘ constituent assembly , established on a non-racial basis and representing all the people of South Africa , to draw up a new constitution for our country ’ . |
| 29 | It looks to me as if-in accord with our country 's culture generally-recent Black art is harsher , more hurt , more despairing . |
| 30 | Composing himself , Sir Michael pressed on : ‘ Would my Right Honourable Friend reflect on the great progress that has been made during the last 10 years in the well-being of our country and the competitiveness of our industries and … |