Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] country [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But if you have the luck to come of country stock then you should never sever your roots , no matter how great the temptation to ‘ improve ’ yourself , or to inhabit more glorious scenery , or to be nearer a railway station . |
| 2 | There could have been a serious road accident with a dozen or so frightened animals careering about country lanes . |
| 3 | The most ancient images found in country areas are known to have been wooden , with the location and nature of the tree from which the wood is taken being of great significance . |
| 4 | And yet it is a paradox of the period that change came into country life as often as not through the women . |
| 5 | The burden which Christian carries on his back is the anvil which Bunyan humped through country lanes , encountering , like Christian , floods and mud and dangers of footpads . |
| 6 | If , as usually should be the case , the courts of country B decide to return the child to the jurisdiction of the courts of country A , the latter courts will be in no way inhibited from giving permission for the child to return to country B or indeed becoming settled there and so subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of that country . |
| 7 | There were numerous poems written about country estates in the eighteenth century , but again it is difficult to know how many of these Leapor read , though she must have read some . |
| 8 | The analysis can be made more sophisticated , and sometimes more realistic , by introducing alternative assumptions relating to country size . |
| 9 | T-tests are a fairly simple way of testing for significance in the difference between the mean or proportion of a sample drawn from country A and the mean or proportion of a sample drawn from country B. |
| 10 | T-tests are a fairly simple way of testing for significance in the difference between the mean or proportion of a sample drawn from country A and the mean or proportion of a sample drawn from country B. |
| 11 | Many of our best supporters increased their majorities , and a new team of MPs committed to country sports has been elected . |
| 12 | Many of the letters we receive come from people living in country towns and villages concerned about proposals that would smother green fields with development , destroy attractive open spaces within the built-up area or ruin important views . |
| 13 | If prior to the Hague Rules bankers had legitimate concerns that a bill of lading issued in country A , the place of shipment would not be enforceable in country B , the place of issuance of the letter of credit and arrival of the goods , such concerns were lessened by the enactment in more than 70 nations , of statutes implementing the Hague Rules . |
| 14 | I am a country living junkie and my appetite for magazines devoted to country life is insatiable . |
| 15 | In many cases the use of local materials imparted to country stations a distinctive regional flavour . |
| 16 | Trade credits or deficits accrued between countries A & B are used by country C or C & D [ complex switches are possible ] to effect a multi-national balancing of payments . |
| 17 | Robbie spent the afternoon as Fen had suggested , and when she alighted from the stifling , ancient bus crowded with country folk , she felt in no mood to go back to the boat . |
| 18 | Interest in the grotto and gardens was stirred by SAVE and in particular by an article Eileen Harris wrote for Country Life . |
| 19 | Maynard Mack rather grandly pronounces Gay 's pastorals ‘ … the only lasting edifice based on country life and peasant folkways between The Shepheardes Calendar and Michael . ’ |
| 20 | It was a painful process , but Angela 's experience as an antique dealer specialising in country furniture and folk art helped her to accept it philosophically . |