Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [adj] nations " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poet and visionary climber Edwin Drummond is about to achieve his ambition of a United Nations Climb for the World , now sponsored by the Sheffield firm Fretwell-Downing Datasystems . |
| 2 | Two hundred and fifty British troops are preparing to fly to war-torn Croatia as part of a United Nations peace-keeping force . |
| 3 | A few governments say that they own weapons to provide a part of a United Nations peace-keeping force . |
| 4 | Endorsing the concept of " open skies " and " open lands " , he indicated the Soviet Union 's willingness to participate in " the establishment of a United Nations register of sales and transfers of weapons " . |
| 5 | That is to try for a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict through a United Nations peace conference . |
| 6 | I am not sure whether we shall get the support , but the plan includes the elements mentioned by the right hon. Gentleman , and encouragement for the concept of a United Nations peacekeeping force once the appropriate conditions exist . |
| 7 | An excited fan planted a kiss on the Duchess of York 's cheek yesterday as she practised for her new role as a United Nations roving ambassador . |
| 8 | We proposed the appointment of a United Nations disaster relief co-ordinator and the introduction of a United Nations arms register , and both proposals have been accepted . |
| 9 | In fact , their own chairman , John Dunster , presented a paper to a United Nations session on atomic power in 1958 in which he revealed that some polonium had been released . |
| 10 | A MINEFIELD yesterday blocked the path of a United Nations aid convoy trying to reach a beseiged Bosnian town . |
| 11 | We proposed the appointment of a United Nations disaster relief co-ordinator and the introduction of a United Nations arms register , and both proposals have been accepted . |
| 12 | After the United Nations was established in 1945 , ICAO was accorded the full status of a United Nations Agency . |
| 13 | THE SOVIET UNION and Pakistan remain bitterly divided as to how the conflict in Afghanistan should be resolved , despite having agreed on the wording for a United Nations resolution in the hope of avoiding a public row at the General Assembly , diplomats said yesterday . |
| 14 | There is now a chance of progress via measures such as those that the EC has taken , and via the possibility of a United Nations peacekeeping force . |
| 15 | Moreover , by November 1983 American soldiers had gone into action in the Middle East , as the major element in a United Nations force attempting to open a way to peace in the Lebanon , long battered by civil war ; and in the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada , where , following a coup within the island 's Marxist-dominated government , the Reagan Administration — fearful of Cuban activities — had sent in the Marines , an action condemned by the United Nations . |
| 16 | SADDAM Hussein last night threatened revenge after American pilots shot down an Iraqi jet inside a United Nations ' no-fly zone . |