Example sentences of "in [adj] country [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this country only lip-service is paid to the handicapped : A few concrete ramps and most councils think they have given the earth . |
| 2 | In some countries where religion is not acknowledged to be in any way a necessary part of life , and also to a lesser degree in some where it is , the very important regular holidays , i.e. the single days or short periods of relief from work , which are spaced throughout the year , and which are additional to the long summer vacations , are fixed by arbitrary law and not by reference to religious feast days . |
| 3 | Robert Fellowes commissioned Soane , who was building several houses in East Anglia at that time , to design his family seat in willowy country just south of Norwich near Shotesham All Saints , a village with a winding stream and Dutch gabled cottages . |
| 4 | What applications might these results have in developed countries where vitamin A is plentiful ? |
| 5 | This is in contrast to the situation in capitalist countries where education reflects the authoritarian and exploitative values of the factory system with the result that it helps to reproduce the capitalist system of production which is inherently inefficient . |
| 6 | ‘ It took us quite a while to persuade other people just how much tennis in general could benefit , especially in those countries where Government grants are dependent on Olympic membership , if tennis was once again a member of the Olympic family . |
| 7 | In those countries where activity is much more sparse a national approach is usually necessary in order to stimulate more work or provide models of good programmes etc . |
| 8 | Whether these interpretations of the influence of Christianity are correct or not , it is evident that the growth of technology has been most rapid and most prevalent in those countries where Christianity has been the dominant religion . |
| 9 | But that would not necessarily be inconsistent , in some sectors at least , with an expansion of multinationals ' activities in developing countries where growth rates were better or markets protected and where they could do so without transferring fresh capital . |
| 10 | In other countries where readership is similarly very limited and where the high cost of imported newsprint and machinery and the paucity of advertising revenue combine in much the same way to exclude the private investor , the government has to become involved if a local press is to exist . |
| 11 | That is certainly a contributing factor , but similar conditions obtain in other countries where kidnapping is almost unknown . |
| 12 | The experiment on which this story was based has not been effectively repeated — but it sent a sufficient frisson through legislators and consumerists all over the world for subliminal advertising to have been solemnly banned in most countries where advertising is effectively controlled . |
| 13 | The evidence , however , is slim , and the logical conclusion — the two-second or five-second commercial — seems far away ; while so-called ‘ subliminal ’ advertising , using flashes of picture or words lasting only fractions of a second , is not only totally unproven as a technique , but banned in most countries where advertising on film is available . |