Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [adj] nations [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland 's coach , Ian McGeechan , made the pertinent point that fixtures against Fiji and Romania had provided a valuable contrast of styles , expansive and then forward dominated , that were useful preparation for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 2 | A preliminary draft of a charter on the environmental rights of developing nations has been issued following the third set of negotiations in preparation for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development ( UNCED ) . |
| 3 | The EC has made clear its continuing full support for the United Nations Secretary-General 's mission of good offices , which offers the best hope of progress towards a comprehensive , just and lasting solution to the intercommunal dispute . |
| 4 | National data for the United Nations Development Programme Human Development Index ( HDI ; based on life expectancy and adult literacy , as well as income ) behave similarly . |
| 5 | The official mandate of the United Nations Protection Force is to ‘ ride shotgun ’ with relief convoys , but the British battalion has stretched that mandate into a peacemaking role . |
| 6 | The ozone-negotiations , conducted under the aegis of the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ) , marked an important stage in the globalization of issues and of policy-making . |
| 7 | I want to return to the question of an armed intervention force in Yugoslavia under the aegis of the United Nations Security Council . |
| 8 | Roxburgh 's conclusions as to consequences can not be sustained today in light of the United Nations Charter restrictions upon the use of force and intervention . |
| 9 | WITH a fine disregard for the dozen Belgian paracommandos stationed on the roof of the United Nations headquarters in Kismayu , a team of Somalis last week chipped a hole in the compound wall and pinched a generator . |
| 10 | Having a busy summer , X/Open Co Ltd has also cut a prestigious five year deal with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research to promote the use of ‘ modern information systems ’ in ‘ developing and recovering ’ countries . |
| 11 | The more we head down the path to a single European voice in the world community , the more likely it is that the Community , as an institution , will take the permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council that we have rightly enjoyed , as have the French , since the United Nations was established . |
| 12 | A highly intelligent and beautiful French television journalist , Christine Ockrent , came to Baghdad to interview him some months before the United Nations deadline for withdrawal from Kuwait . |
| 13 | We owe a great deal to the United Nations Secretary-General and to Mr. Picco who have worked tirelessly with others to secure the release of the hostages . |
| 14 | If the archetypal Tory of the 1979 intake was a rent-a-quote property dealer who backed Mrs Thatcher to the death and the death penalty to the hilt , Mr Heddle can be called a sad loss to the Two Nations Tendency . |
| 15 | The British Government are a signatory to the United Nations convention on refugees . |
| 16 | As a result in February 1990 the World Federation for Mental Health — for the first time in its 40-year history — made a submission to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva , arraigning an individual country for abusing the human rights of mentally ill people . |
| 17 | Japan wants a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council , and knows that it has to show that it deserves one . |
| 18 | Although nominally a Great Power in 1945 , with a seat on the United Nations Security Council and the second largest Empire in the world , France emerged from the Second World War as a much-weakened nation . |
| 19 | However , as that role will need to be funded , does he support the Government 's policy of cutting aid to the United Nations development agencies by 38 per cent . |
| 20 | The convoy , led by a police car and two police motorcycles , made its way through Long Island City , across the Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan then down First Avenue to the United Nations Plaza , the hotel where the Zimbalan delegation would stay for the duration of their three-day visit to New York . |
| 21 | Their speeches to the United Nations World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna delivered a double rebuff to China and other countries which say their circumstances are special and that their peoples ' rights are no-one else 's affair . |
| 22 | In 1945 she became deputy chairman of the United Nations Association , and in 1949 chairman of its executive committee and joint president ( with Gilbert Murray , q.v . ) . |
| 23 | I refer , or course , to the pitiful coverage of the Five Nations Championship provided by the corporation . |
| 24 | Surviving on imported pasta and freshly baked pizza , the Italians are a crucial part of the United Nations operation that has the job of maintaining the peace and running elections in a country emerging from 16 years of civil war . |
| 25 | In 1989 , Kennard was invited by the United Nations to exhibit his work at the Palais des Nations in Geneva as part of the United Nations Disarmament Week , and as a follow-up to this event , the Imperial War Museum has also mounted a show . |
| 26 | Iraq has refused to withdraw missiles from the no-fly zone in the South of the country with the expiry of the United Nations deadline just hours away . |
| 27 | NATO was already providing staff and equipment for the headquarters of the United Nations Protection Force ( UNPROFOR ) near Sarajevo , the Bosnian capital . |
| 28 | The author , Mallica Vajrathon , of Thailand , is a Senior Technical Officer in the Education , Communication and Youth Branch of the United Nations Population Fund in New York . |
| 29 | That is the verdict of the United Nations Childrens ' Fund ( UNICEF ) . |
| 30 | That was certainly the prevalent mood when England , confident of again sorting out the beleaguered Irish , and at least making the French work for the Five Nations Cup , took the field at Lansdowne Road with a side apparently brimful with Lions for New Zealand . |