Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] the country " in BNC.
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| 1 | On March 21st Brazil 's economics ministry stopped issuing permission to export the country 's coffee , causing uproar at home , turmoil in the international coffee market and an insider-trading scandal that could prove embarrassing for the government of President Fernando Collor de Mello . |
| 2 | In 1944–5 de Gaulle 's Minister of Economic Affairs , Pierre Mendès-France , proposed a bold economic programme to strengthen the country through the introduction of austerity measures and national economic planning . |
| 3 | I 'll think what I can do about that ; I do n't want to go back to Security or through Six … when you come down to it how do we know some of the Old Guard in those places are n't involved in this bloody attempt to run the country from the shadows ? |
| 4 | He also announced spending of the equivalent of US$1,200,000 to upgrade urban slums ; this amount was part of a US$6,300,000 increase in the government 's social programme to support the country 's poorest groups . |
| 5 | NORTHERN Ireland butchers have been given the good news they can compete in a major English contest to find the country 's top sausage-maker . |
| 6 | She got it when she sailed into neighbouring Albania a week ago , the first British warship to visit the country for 54 years . |
| 7 | The National Bank said that for 1990 it had to adhere to a strict monetary policy aimed at keeping the hard currency account deficit under $550,000,000 , that of the state budget under 10,000 million forints and inflation under 19 per cent — conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) when it approved an agreement to pave the way for additional foreign loans to maintain the country 's creditworthiness . |
| 8 | It would be an interesting time to visit the country . |
| 9 | Although the idea of WCY is over a year old and the year is now a month old , Britain has only just announced its six-man committee to represent the country 's interests . |
| 10 | The strength of the protest vote against the mainstream parties was seen as reflecting popular disillusionment with their unsuccessful attempts to resolve the country 's long-running linguistic problems and to complete constitutional reforms [ see p. 38465 ] . |
| 11 | We 've had to do some very uncomfortable things to put the country on an even keel for the future . |
| 12 | The widely respected dissident Doina Cornea , who resigned from the Front in January [ see p. 37190 ] , accused its leaders of insincerity and of lacking the moral authority to regenerate the country . |
| 13 | In Schmidt v. Secretary of State for Home Affairs the plaintiffs were Scientology students who had been given a limited leave to enter the country . |
| 14 | Bulgaria 's new Communist authorities yesterday ended key aspects of the official assimilation policy which has forced thousands of ethnic Turks to flee the country . |
| 15 | Anti-Western and anti-Israeli feeling in Jordan , illustrated by large-scale demonstrations against the military attacks on Iraq , led Germany and France to advise their remaining citizens to leave the country . |
| 16 | He made a deal in 1948 with the communist authorities that , if he could get passports for himself and his entire family to leave the country , he would make over his lands to the state . |
| 17 | Indeed , the process was implicit in the ambitious plans to industrialize the country already drawn up under Dej . |
| 18 | On 2 September , troops opened fire when barricades were erected by a group protesting against a sharp increase in the cost of living and the government 's failure to convene a national conference to discuss the country 's political future . |
| 19 | About 150,000 people attended FORD 's first legal rally in Nairobi on Jan. 15 to hear calls from the movement 's leaders for the formation of a national conference to discuss the country 's future . |
| 20 | The appointment of Kang , 67 , a Moscow-trained economic technocrat who had served as Premier from 1984 to 1986 , was widely interpreted as indicative of Kim Il Sung 's recognition of the urgent need to reform the country 's highly centralized and largely moribund economy . |
| 21 | That art was demonstrated wth conspicuously different talents by British editors and journalists in the aftermath of the revelation that Jeffrey Archer , best-selling novelist and deputy chairman of the Conservative party , had paid a Shepherds Market street-walker £2,000 to leave the country . |
| 22 | The Canton city authorities confirmed on Aug. 16 that three Macao students at Jinan University in Canton , Chen Tse-Wei , Chin Kuo-tung and Liang Tsao-hua , had been arrested on a charge of " involvement in helping illegal elements to flee the country " . |
| 23 | The government on July 20 , 1989 , launched a major initiative to protect the country 's environment . |
| 24 | It was always a Russian ( and later a Soviet ) ambition , for instance , to acquire warm-water ports to the south , and to develop a network of client states in Eastern Europe to strengthen the country 's defences against the other continental powers . |
| 25 | The Duke of Kent , the opera 's patron , and Sir Michael Tippett , composer and president of Kent Opera , both fought to save the company , the first in regional professional opera to tour the country . |
| 26 | Following the murders in late March of an elderly US missionary and his British wife in a village attacked by rebel forces , the UK and US embassies urged their respective nationals to leave the country . |
| 27 | Although Hawke retained much of his former Cabinet following the general election , one notable absence was that of former Finance Minister Peter Walsh who retired from government because he felt that the Hawke administration lacked sufficient political will to tackle the country 's pressing financial problems [ see p. 37378 ] . |
| 28 | Walsh announced his decision to retire from the government on April 2 ; although he gave no reasons , he had earlier suggested that the government lacked sufficient political will to confront the country 's grave economic problems . |
| 29 | Yet further fumblings by Mr Major could haul Mr Clarke to the top job much earlier than that ‘ one more year ’ which , by Tory consensus , is now Mr Major 's time-limit for proving he is the right man to lead the country . |
| 30 | Mr Ashdown is to spend the last four days of the campaign stressing the need for a lasting coalition to rescue the country from economic and political crisis . |