Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] country ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeltsin made an official visit to Italy on Dec. 19-20 , signing with the Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti a joint declaration establishing the basis for the two countries ' relationship . |
| 2 | Negotiations to reduce the fee for the prospective French cosmonaut ( estimated at $10,000,000 for one week in orbit ) were continuing during a meeting between the two country 's space agencies in November . |
| 3 | Talks were also held between the two countries ' Foreign Ministers , who discussed the Cambodian question , and between the Ministers of Economic Relations and Trade . |
| 4 | The Washington Post of Feb. 12 reported that Arens made a request for greater US-Israeli co-ordination , including sharing of so-called " friend-or-foe " recognition codes to avoid conflict between the two countries ' military aircraft in the event of Israel entering the conflict . |
| 5 | All payments between Kazakhstan and Russia have to pass through the two countries ' central banks . |
| 6 | The purpose of this attack is to weaken the economy of these [ oil-producing and Islamic ] countries and strengthen the foundations of the industrial countries ' economies . |
| 7 | The crowning absurdity of the rich countries ' current thinking on aid is not , however , their preference for lots of tied aid to not-terribly-poor countries , but their fondness for combining big cheques with barriers to trade . |
| 8 | Born in 1844 to a family noted for its piety and scholarship , Lazarus had decided to emigrate to Canada in 1869 , having heard reports of the young country 's potential : its federation was then but two years old . |
| 9 | On June 6-9 Albania hosted , for the first time , a meeting of the Balkan countries ' national commissions for UNESCO . |
| 10 | He convened a group within the cabinet to wrest control of Japan 's end of the two countries ' Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) talks from the civil servants . |
| 11 | This envisaged , among other things , the connection of the two countries ' electricity grids , giving priority to providing direct telecommunications links , joining railway lines at the border , and joint agricultural and water conservation projects . |
| 12 | The new National Front government 's foreign policy objectives , as outlined in the President 's address on Dec. 20 , 1989 , were for a strengthening of links with India 's neighbours and co-operation through the medium of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation ( SAARC ) , continued dialogue with China leading to a resolution of the two countries ' border dispute , development of the traditional friendship with the Soviet Union and of a new relationship with the United States , and economic co-operation with Japan and the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 13 | In her 15-minute speech she spoke of the two countries ' shared ideals , including democracy , stability and a rejection of the power which " grows from the barrel of a gun " . |
| 14 | The Chairman of Vietnam 's Council of Ministers , Senior Gen. Vo Van Kiet , hailed the visit as an " important event " in the normalization of the two countries ' relations . |
| 15 | The way in which the crisis of 1839 – 41 was resolved persuaded him that Britain might welcome an exploration of the two countries ' thoughts on the future of the Near East . |
| 16 | He also believed , first , that France was unlikely to be able to secure an alliance with Britain ( because of the two countries ' disagreement about the Near East in 1840 ) ; second , that Britain might support Russia in the event of a Russian attack on the Ottoman Empire ( because of the Anglo-Russian discussions which had taken place in London in 1844 ) ; and third , that in any event he could count on the support of Austria ( because of the assistance he had rendered Vienna in putting down the Hungarians in 1849 ) . |
| 17 | Not only were the values of other currencies effectively pegged to the dollar ( formally speaking , to gold ) but dollars had to make up the greater part of the other countries ' official holdings of reserves . |
| 18 | If they are subject to the court 's jurisdiction , or if the court can compel a party to produce them … , violation of the other country 's judicial sovereignty is avoided by ordering that the deposition take place outside the country . |
| 19 | However , the civil servants at the Soviet Ministry , headed by the legendary figure who had charge of the entire country 's fine arts , the ‘ unsinkable ’ Genrikh Popov ( as the experts euphemistically dubbed him ) , along with the Director of the Tretyakov Gallery , Yuri Korolev , did everything they could to ensure that the project was never realized . |
| 20 | OUTSIDERS Zimbabwe are led by David Houghton , a veteran of the African country 's previous two World Cups , and coached by the enthusiastic Essex seamer Don Topley . |
| 21 | He then assumes that for each country the rate of growth of aggregate demand or nominal spending has followed a very simple process ; that is , where is the rate of growth of the ith country 's nominal spending , is the mean value of over the whole period , and is the deviation of from its mean . |
| 22 | US Marines took control of an airfield in Somalia yesterday in their first major sortie out of the war-torn country 's capital . |
| 23 | US Marines took control of an airfield in Somalia yesterday in their first major sortie out of the war-torn country 's capital . |
| 24 | With their teams of lawyers , accountants and company agents , and able to transfer money at the push of a computer button , the launderers dodge through the maze of the different countries ' jurisdictions creating a trail so complex that investigators , never mind the banks , find it almost impossible to spot what is going on . |
| 25 | Before putting themselves forward for selection , potential candidates and their families need to be aware of the foreign country 's environment — for instance its language(s) , climate and culture , its housing and education facilities , what security is like , and where they will be living and working . |
| 26 | The ‘ Trinidad terms ’ , proposed in 1990 by John Major when he was Britain 's chancellor , write off two-thirds of a poor country 's debt incurred before a certain date , and reschedule the rest over 25 years . |
| 27 | In both Guerrillas and A Bend in the River the description of a coup , of an emergent country 's state of emergency , is put together with the description of a sexual relationship between people of different races : an affinity is suggested , also apparent in the novella In a Free State . |
| 28 | The criminal law , in other words , condemns the importation of murderous terrorist acts usually against powerful individuals or strategic institutions , but goes all quiet when governments export or support avoidable acts of killing usually against the under-developed countries ' poor . |
| 29 | In a speech delivered on Nov. 16 Zhu indicated that China was fully prepared to link its dispute with the UK over Hong Kong with the two countries ' future economic relations . |
| 30 | The main item on the agenda will be reduction of troop numbers along the two countries ' common border . |