Example sentences of "france the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | For instance , until we did a NERC-funded project on tortoises in southern France the locals were not involved . |
2 | As this television programme was made in France the chaps thought the French might appreciate the little touch and make friends . |
3 | Steel-casting companies in Spain which in Britain would have been bankrupted are continuing to offer steel-castings at artificially low prices , and indeed inefficient capacity and production is not only being maintained but is even being purposely created ; while in France the producers of steel-castings are benefiting from soft loans from mostly state-owned banks . |
4 | The new entity , in which each company will have a 50 per cent stake , will distribute in France the brands owned by the two companies , including Glenfiddich , Grant 's , St Raphael , Noilly-Prat and Otard . |
5 | Inside France the opponents of Vichy and of Nazism began to organise underground activities , and to plan France 's post-war revival . |
6 | ‘ That this Committee having inspected various Documents produced by the Professor Mr Vial , are satisfied of their Authenticity and of the fairness of his Character — and that he did actually hold in France the situations of professor of the Veterinary School and of Ecuyer du Roi at Lyons and of professor of comparative anatomy at Montpellier . |
7 | In France the brothers of Charles V , Louis , duke of Anjou , John , duke of Berry , and Philip , duke of Burgundy , all gained military advantage for themselves , their clients and dependants from their close relationship with successive kings . |
8 | He interrogates everyone : a Rouen merchant who amazes him by not having heard of mint sauce , and a canon of Evreux who informs him that in France the men read too much , while the women read next to nothing ( o rarer still Emma Bovary ! ) . |
9 | Yet it is important to realise that in the last decades of the old régime in France the parlements were often expressing more or less accurately what public opinion there was on the issues at stake , and that they had frequently widespread popular support for their attitudes . |