Example sentences of "in their [adj] country " in BNC.
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| 1 | It makes fascinating reading , commencing with the work of British businessmen who pioneered the game in their adopted country . |
| 2 | In spite of an inauspicious beginning , Laura and Bernard succeeded within a few years in developing an absorbing private life in their adopted country . |
| 3 | The conference also called on the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) to convene a conference with prospective donor countries to formulate an aid plan which would assist in the social and economic integration of refugees who chose to return to Rwanda and of those seeking naturalized status in their present country of residence . |
| 4 | ‘ In the hospitality of the Arabs is kinship and assurance in their insecure countries , ’ wrote Charles Doughty in the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | BANGKOK ( AP ) — Two Burmese students who hijacked a plane to demand democracy in their military-ruled country will be tried in Thailand but not sent back home . |
| 6 | He would not be fooled like the man in the film who went cheerfully off to work , leaving his brave young wife to die all alone in their pretty country cottage . |
| 7 | The workshop is aimed at youth leaders who can develop media awareness training schemes in parishes and communities in their respective countries . |
| 8 | During the workshop , participants shared reports on the status of religious broadcasting in their respective countries . |
| 9 | It also encourages assembly participants to submit samples of video footage on social movements in their respective countries . |
| 10 | The monarchs were also the leaders of the society in their respective countries . |
| 11 | Instead of introducing procedures which can be relied upon to identify and protect all those at risk of human rights violations in their own country , Government has introduced a range of measures which create obstacles in the path of those seeking asylum in the UK . |
| 12 | Higher degrees in English are an obvious target for foreign students who have been trained in the subject in their own country , and who wish to obtain a doctoral qualification in an anglophone university before themselves becoming teachers . |
| 13 | Those in the States may have to travel long distances for tournaments but it 's still in their own country . ’ |
| 14 | Those in the States may have to travel long distances for tournaments but it 's still in their own country . ’ |
| 15 | Obviously , then , the fact that 200,000 Greek Cypriots ( a third of the population ) were kicked out of their homes by the Turkish invaders , thus becoming refugees in their own country , is not a crime , according to Mr Gustafson ; nor is the fact that 80,000 settlers were imported from Turkey in an attempt to alter the demographic composition of the island ; nor is the fact that 1,619 people are still reported as missing in action almost 17 years after the invasion ; nor is the fact that the Turks are destroying every trace of the 3,000-year-old Greek culture that exists in the occupied territories , a fact that even the Turkish Cypriot press often reports . |
| 16 | ‘ People are very cautious in their own country about talking to the press . |
| 17 | ‘ There is no single acceptable location , as they see it , unless it is in their own country . |
| 18 | Like the Israelite prophets , they may not be honoured in their own country but they are recognized as belonging . |
| 19 | For instance , he says potential students and immigrants should be examined in their own country at their expense by British doctors employed by the Foreign Office . |
| 20 | Drawing upon their experiences they produced in their own country buildings which echoed those of Imperial Paris , as anyone familiar with the architecture of , say , Philadelphia and Washington , will readily admit ( in the autumn of 1978 the city of Philadelphia recognized its debt by staging , in its Museum of Art , an exhibition devoted to the Second Empire ) . |
| 21 | On talking to parents , we were told that had there been a suitable provision in their own country they would not be in Budapest . |
| 22 | Hotel coupons paved the way for package holidays because tourists paid for facilities in advance in their own currency , in their own country instead of hunting for somewhere to stay and paying hotel bills as they went . |
| 23 | The French also like to stay at home and prefer to take their leisure in their own country . |
| 24 | Specifically , it will allow chemists , particularly those from developing countries , to carry out short term studies in well-established scientific centres abroad and to learn and use techniques not accessible to them in their own country . |
| 25 | At the highest level of society there were the names given to the great tenants-in-chief who held their estates directly of the Conqueror , and it must be remembered that if these magnates were already powerful in their own country they may even have brought locative bynames with them , as was the case of William de Moyon already mentioned . |
| 26 | Grants for maintenance in any form are not available under the scheme and students should apply to the appropriate grant awarding body in their own country for such support . |
| 27 | They had homes and jobs in their own country but these have been burned and stripped away from them through no fault of their own . |
| 28 | England too made a significant contribution to this new Western development and produced four great mystics who quickly attracted a considerable following on the continent as well as in their own country : Richard Rolle of Hampole ( c. 1290–1349 ) , the unknown author of The Cloud of Unknowing , Walter Hilton ( d. 1376 ) and Dame Julian of Norwich ( c. 1342–1416 ) . |
| 29 | It is prophets who proverbially have no honour in their own country , and Frodo is increasingly a prophet or a seer . |
| 30 | Spies working for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds found that Tanzanian traders routinely forge export papers to the UK , despite tough laws in their own country . |