Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] nations ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | LIVERPOOL 'S David Matthews has replaced Fred Howard on England 's three-man referees ' panel for the Five Nations ' Championship . |
| 2 | The display of exotic animals in zoos was a public manifestation of the industrialized nations ' ability to dominate the world . |
| 3 | Outside-half Didier Camberabero , not an immaculate hair out of place , converted 11 of those tries by way of reminding France , who left him out of the Five Nations ' side , that he is still a formidable competitor . |
| 4 | There is a review of the 1991-92 season by the captains of each of the Five Nations ' Championship sides and ample space is given to their views of the game . |
| 5 | IRELAND , bottom of the Five Nations ' Championship last season , may turn to a Welshman to lead them in the 1995 rugby union World Cup in South Africa . |
| 6 | Mrs Frizzell found it impossible to forgive Mrs Dawson 's becoming a widow the same week as her party ; a history of Mrs Dawson one night , and the remarks the following night of the lady secretary of the United Nations ' Society on the role of the Canadian peacekeeping force in Cyprus , had meant that for the first time in years no report of Mrs Frizzell 's party appeared , though room had been found for a report on one of Mrs Murphy 's receptions . |
| 7 | ‘ We call for explicit guarantees of media and press freedom in the constitutions of all African countries as stipulated in Article 19 of the United Nations ' Declaration on Human Rights , ’ they stressed . |
| 8 | At a conference of the Foreign Ministers of the EEC states in Rome the following month Carrington made a general proposal for the conclusion of an international treaty guaranteeing Afghanistan 's status as a ‘ neutral ’ state , which in his view would provide the Soviet Union the possibility of withdrawing its troops on a legal basis in light of the United Nations ' resolution on this issue . |
| 9 | The USSR had given the appearance of supporting the plan of the United Nations ' negotiator . |
| 10 | Given that the appalling tragedy in the Horn of Africa will not end until there is peace , and given the changes in the pattern of the United Nations ' work in recent years , which our Government have so actively supported , does the Minister think that we are now reaching a stage where British troops could be deployed under a United Nations banner in humanitarian action as a precursor to effective aid ? |
| 11 | But Bosnian Serbs refused to let the convoy pass , saying they had had insufficient advance notice , said Judith Kumin of the United Nations ' High Commissioner for Refugees in Belgrade . |
| 12 | With GDP measured on a PPP basis , China is already the world 's third ( if not second ) biggest economy ; India , Brazil and Mexico are all bigger than Canada , the seventh member of the top nations ' club . |
| 13 | Aid supplied by the OECD countries ( and capital-rich oil exporters ) although amounting to about $33bil per annum in the early 1980s ( approximately 0.36 per cent of OECD 's GNP ) was well below the United Nations ' target figure of 0.7 per cent of GNP . |
| 14 | At a mid-point in the novel there occurs McClintoch 's complaint that people are divided into the ‘ attractive ’ and the ‘ unattractive ’ , rather as , according to Disraeli , as Graham duly notes , Victorian England was divided into the two nations ' of rich and poor . |
| 15 | For the first time ever , the Heads of State and Government of the United States , Russia , China , France and Britain sat around the same table and pledged themselves , with the other members of the council , to collective security , to international law and to our commitments under the United Nations ' charter . |
| 16 | Moscow was operating within the United Nations ' scenario which would leave the present regime in place after the departure of Soviet troops . |
| 17 | Work on the first stage in MURRAYFIELD 's redevelopment , building stands to replace the north and south terracing , will begin immediately after Scotland 's final home match in the Five Nations ' Championship , the game against France on March 7 . |
| 18 | These differences may be reflected in the two nations ' space programmes — the French march onwards , their plans to the fore , while the British cautiously conducted a step-by-step withdrawal . |
| 19 | Romania had not in fact recorded a vote on the crucial resolution on 14 January in the United Nations ' General Assembly on the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan . |
| 20 | Does the Prime Minister realise that many people in Great Britain greatly welcome the fact that the first Heads of Government meeting in the United Nations ' history was chaired by a British Prime Minister ? |
| 21 | SADDAM Hussein last night threatened revenge after American pilots shot down an Iraqi jet inside a United Nations ' no-fly zone . |
| 22 | The Iraqi jet was shot down inside a United Nations ' no-fly zone after it turned to challenge an American F-16 pilot . |
| 23 | Walker , who only switched sports in August , is named in the 29-strong squad that travels to Spain next month as part of the build-up to the Five Nations ' Championship . |
| 24 | the rich nations no longer have the stomach for sending their men to fight unless it is safe or there is a threat to the rich nations ' own pampered existence , and |
| 25 | These villages lie way beyond the reach of limited government services , which were shown to be in crisis last year when the island group was added to the United Nations ' list of Least Developed Countries ( LDCs ) . |
| 26 | It was set up in 1981 by the British water industry in response to the United Nations ' Water Decade of 1981 to 1990 . |
| 27 | When Mrs Thatcher and President Reagan both spoke at the United Nations ' 4Oth Anniversary in 1985 they used the same autocue , which remained in a fixed position . |