Example sentences of "of a country [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regular and systematic analysis of a country 's newspapers can provide information on social trends , which may be difficult to obtain from other sources . |
| 2 | National competitiveness — if that is defined as the ability of a country 's firms to compete in world markets , whether through export or overseas production — may be more important , at least to businessmen . |
| 3 | In most countries bank deposits transferred by means of cheques are freely accepted in the discharge of debts and as such constitute as much a part of a country 's money supply as its bank notes . |
| 4 | Bank deposits , because they are freely accepted in payment/settlement of debts , form part of a country 's money supply . |
| 5 | In fact the main component of a country 's money supply is not cash but deposits in banks and other financial institutions . |
| 6 | A draft agreement containing proposals for 10 per cent of the total volume of a country 's textile imports effected under bilaterally negotiated MFA quotas in 1990 , to be brought under GATT rules as of 1992 , was still under discussion when the Uruguay Round was suspended in December [ see p. 37930 ] . |
| 7 | The state of a country 's trading balance on a geographical basis may direct our attention to the condition of the trade balance with the rest of the world . |
| 8 | Lord Curzon later called this the most complete surrender of a country 's resources to foreign interest that could ever be imagined , Protest within Persian was such that the Shah was compelled to avoid the concession . |
| 9 | As a result of the expansion in foreign direct investment , trade deficits are no longer purely national concepts : a large chunk of a country 's exports and imports may be accounted for by foreign firms with bases there . |
| 10 | Rates of progress are , though , difficult to compare without a common yardstick ; obviously , evaluation of a country 's progress towards its own goals does not aid international comparison , given the differing priorities placed on residential safety and environmental quality by different governments and , indeed , by different local authorities . |
| 11 | The general rule is that the efficiency of a country 's intelligence operations is in inverse proportion to the number of agencies it operates . |
| 12 | A surplus may be taken as an indication of a country 's ability to service its external debt , whereas a deficit might imply , if not corrected or offset by capital inflows , future debt servicing problems . |
| 13 | Furthermore , industrial success or failure on a grand scale can have as much , albeit slower , effect as military defeat on the lives and well-being of a country 's citizens . |
| 14 | To a large extent it is dependent upon the quantity and quality of a country 's factors of production — land ( soil , climatic conditions , mineral wealth ) , labour ( workforce size , skills and health ) , capital ( plant and machinery , buildings , railways , etc. ) and enterprise ( inventive , innovative and organisational abilities ) . |
| 15 | This background experience is coupled with knowledge of a country 's laws , constitution and judicial process and political and historical background . |
| 16 | Historical metaphors can never do justice to the complexity of a country 's past , but at this early stage of my trip I felt I was beginning to discern a snake 's energy and inertia in Peru 's past . |
| 17 | Whatever the policies and commitments of a country 's past and current governments may be , it is not possible to exclude the possibility that some future government will not alter the " irrevocably fixed " exchange rates of its currency , or impose restrictions on the movement of capital and , thus , secede from the exchange rate union . |
| 18 | This is not a consideration which applies to other factors of production : there is far less concern about the proportion of a country 's capital stock which is lying idle than there is about the proportion of the labour force which is unemployed . |
| 19 | It provides a measure of a country 's export competitiveness : a rise in the index implies a fall in competitiveness , and vice versa . |
| 20 | An analysis of economic facts can provide some indication of a country 's stage of economic development and progress . |
| 21 | Actuarial predictions of a country 's mortality record are now very reliable , but it is at least a theoretical risk that the record could deteriorate unexpectedly . |
| 22 | The rate of economic and social advancement of a country 's population can influence political stability . |
| 23 | Rescheduling of such debts has become a necessity for the private banks , and a practice which has emerged is that new agreements have been made conditional on such countries accepting the stringent programmes of the IMF which are intended to promote effective adjustment of a country 's balance of payments and ensure that the use of Fund resources is temporary . |
| 24 | They also suggest that there is a critical literacy threshold of 40 per cent : in other words two-fifths of a country 's people need to be literate if it is to ‘ modernize ’ and make an ‘ economic miracle ’ possible . |
| 25 | The IMF decided , in 1988 , that the limit to enlarged access would be 440 per cent of a country 's quota over a three-year period . |
| 26 | Bargaining levels are related to the structure of the parties themselves in collective bargaining , particularly the extent to which their own respective organisations are strongly centralised ( federated ) at national level , and to the extent or density of unionisation of a country 's labour force ( Clegg , 1976 ) . |
| 27 | The prevalent structural forms of a country 's trade union movement have a number of important consequences . |