Example sentences of "of [art] country [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had an effect on the retail sector , the retail areas of the country erm the obvious thing is the chain store . |
| 2 | I mean that was really my only comment that I just erm heard this lady speaking erm okay she 's got two children and it probably is difficult to keep two children occupied without any children 's programmes , but like you commented , ‘ what did people do before television ’ , and erm I mean I 'm sure erm Rainbow and such , the people who produce those sort of television programmes would understand that keeping the majority of the country erm informed of what was going on was slightly more important than erm having children 's programmes on . |
| 3 | He takes it for a walk — such walks have long been a ritual activity of the country 's more optimistic male poor , the dog more expensively jacketed than the chap . |
| 4 | In York , one of the country 's major historic and tourist centres and the city best known to this writer , the visitor 's search for some genuine experience of a better , bygone England will find little reward inside most of the old city 's public houses . |
| 5 | I asked Roger Pawsey of Cants , Mark Mattock , Gareth Fryer , Ken Grapes of the Royal National Rose Society and Robert Harkness , five of the country 's leading rose experts , to name their personal choice of the most highly scented hybrid teas and floribundas . |
| 6 | An odd diversion , perhaps , from one of the country 's leading constitutional lawyers , but he was seized of the gift , and so the poetry became assertive . |
| 7 | And with one of the country 's top competition climbers banned by his own governing body , the situation could deteriorate . |
| 8 | THE SOVIET government is introducing emergency measures to stave off a winter economic crisis , including a 15-month ban on strikes in key industries and drastic moves to ensure the normal operation of the country 's railways — above all to break Azerbaijan 's blockade of Armenia . |
| 9 | According to the justice ministry , staff at 70 of the country 's 180 prisons are on strike , compared with 22 at the end of last week . |
| 10 | Le Monde , one of the country 's most profitable publishing concerns producing special supplements and books while printing other publications , has invested a sum conservatively estimated at not less than Fr350m in a state-of-the-art printing press . |
| 11 | A quarter of the country 's highest-paid executives had pay rises of 36 per cent or more . |
| 12 | HARARE ( Reuter ) — The Zimbabwean government ordered the indefinite closure of the country 's only university yesterday after a day of violent clashes between police and students protesting against the arrest of two of their leaders . |
| 13 | In a decision which was widely predicted , Mr Patten has declared himself minded to uphold the view of the department 's inspectorate that Consortium Developments , representing several of the country 's major home-builders , had not made a sufficiently strong case for the development of 4,800 houses in what is an abandoned quarry and a conifer plantation . |
| 14 | In their imports , Steve Moria and Doug McEwan , they have two of the country 's finest forwards , and they also have Stephen and Ian Cooper on their books and have signed Chris Newton from Peterborough to back up Jeff Smith in goal . |
| 15 | EAST GERMANY battened down the hatches yesterday on the eve of Mikhail Gorbachev 's arrival in its capital , Berlin , for the fortieth anniversary of the country 's creation . |
| 16 | By linking Hungarian national aspirations , in a language reminiscent of the country 's greatest writers , to the general yearning for democracy , he struck a chord . |
| 17 | Their contributions to the serious arts of fish-frying and ice-cream making are well documented ; they have allayed indigenous suspicion about garlic ; and , in Glasgow and Edinburgh , they have established two of the country 's finest delicatessens . |
| 18 | PANAMA 'S military government yesterday stepped up its verbal assault against enemies at home and abroad after putting down a coup led by some of the country 's most senior officers . |
| 19 | Work would already have started on improving what we already believe to be one of the country 's most modern and safe grounds . |
| 20 | Arriving in East Berlin at the height of the country 's most serious political crisis for more than three decades , Mr Gorbachev had earlier in the day , in a brief encounter with enthusiastic East Berliners , spoken of the need ‘ not to panic — that 's the most important thing ’ . |
| 21 | Given this background , the minister of posts , telecommunications and space , Paul Quiles , was treading on eggshells when he met the unions this week for the second in a series of talks concerning the reform of the country 's post office , the PTT . |
| 22 | ‘ Only 11 per cent of the country 's 18-year-olds pass three A-levels , ’ says Michael Duffy , head of the King Edward VI School , in Morpeth , Northumberland . |
| 23 | He has declared himself general co-ordinator of a new Parliament of Popular Power which , although it has no legislative authority , appears destined to take the place of the country 's National Assembly , which was dissolved last month . |
| 24 | In accordance with the procedures governing Roger Hall 's comedy , they do so at regularly-spaced intervals , each entering with a gasp and clad in a ridiculous profusion of scarves , hats and rainwear , so that his droll point about the awfulness of the country 's climate can be adequately appreciated . |
| 25 | Most of the country 's 15,000 parlours are run by Japan 's Korean minority , who have been denied the right to Japanese citizenship . |
| 26 | This sudden glasnost , unthinkable a week ago , was evidently the result of the Politburo statement on Wednesday calling for discussion of the country 's problems and for media that were ‘ close to life ’ . |
| 27 | PRAGUE — An influential Czechoslovak economist , whose criticisms of the country 's stagnation have achieved cult status , returned from the Soviet Union to find his department dissolved and himself under threat of dismissal , writes Edward Lucas . |
| 28 | I returned with some spectacularly horrible photos of the country 's many problems but also with a good many showing Czechoslovakia 's stunning beauty . |
| 29 | They were underlined by Labour 's Defence Review of 1974–5 which committed Britain 's ground forces solely to the defending of continental Europe , and stripped away the last fragments of the country 's global pretensions . |
| 30 | Arresting the cycle of the country 's relative economic decline was the self proclaimed major task of the Thatcher revolution . |