Example sentences of "in [adj] country [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to understand what is happening in that country we have to see its internal developments as the effects of what is happening to the international economy as a whole . |
| 2 | In this country we discovered the value of prevention and rehabilitation in the 1950s and 1960s and our belief in permanence achieved through working with a child in his own family was given legal sanction in Section 1 of the 1963 Act . |
| 3 | We 've also had significant growth in our chain store business in this country we 've signed a new two-year contract with Air Canada and we 're much more optimistic about the rest of the year we 've got orders , production and sales all nicely in equilibrium ready for the second half . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ In this country we tend to take our democratic rights for granted but this event gives Cleveland people a chance to make it clear they value those rights and believe that everyone in South Africa should have them too . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ In this country we tend to neglect our manufacturing industries in favour of service industries such as banking and insurance . |
| 6 | When the honourable gentleman said I gave no information I said I intended to talk about jobs and in this country we believe , we believe that er there are three things very important a at this forthcoming summit . |
| 7 | In this country we call it Medau Breathing Movement , and by ‘ breathing movement ’ we mean internal movement of the trunk , which starts with the rising and falling of the diaphragm and then communicates itself to the abdominal walls , pelvic floor , the whole back and as far as the collar bone . |
| 8 | In this country we employ 50,000 people in a number of locations . |
| 9 | ‘ For too long in this country we have pushed parental responsibility into the sidelines . |
| 10 | Indeed , in this country we have a conciliation service , known by its initials as ACAS , which is a forum whereby representatives can get together and make demands , counter demands and eventually — and hopefully — reach solutions . |
| 11 | It seems that every few decades in this country we have a major battle over divorce law reform . |
| 12 | As a result in this country we have had a heavy tax burden and a structure of taxation which is a major disincentive to take risk , to invest and even to work . |
| 13 | In this country we have lost many rituals that in the past supported us through the various stages of grief . |
| 14 | I mean it may well be that we have in this country we have erm pretty much Mill 's system because MPs get paid relatively little bearing in mind what most of them could be getting elsewhere , so maybe we 've got something like Mill 's system but it strikes us as rather a bizarre suggestion that MPs should n't be paid to prevent adventurous and lower classes becoming MPs . |
| 15 | Surely , in this country we have to obey the laws that are there , not the laws that are going some day to be passed . |
| 16 | I mean do n't forget do n't forget do n't forget when everybody was wearing their sickles and hammers in this country they had millionaires in Russia . |
| 17 | They have to be outstanding academically , and must show that having served pupillage and completed a limited period of practice in this country they intend subsequently to return to their country of origin , and that the experience of English pupillage and practice will be of significant benefit in establishing a practice in their home country . |
| 18 | The why the Pakistanis can vote in this country they 've got a British passport . |
| 19 | In this country they followed still later ; at Oxford in 1621 , Edinburgh in 1670 and Chelsea in 1673 . |
| 20 | To , to make people feel sorry for them and they have no shame at all in breaking limbs and distorting their features and all so that kind to make themselves look as pitiful as they possible can because they 're going to live a life of a beggar and they tell us it 's very profitable being a beggar in some lands , people can make in this country they reckon up to in places like London a hundred pounds a day being a beggar that 's more than you earn a day is n't it ? |
| 21 | And I was n't long in this country they shoved me over , Normandy , on the landing in Normandy . |
| 22 | Arriving in this country they established themselves as farmers and in the early 19th century they farmed at Allington Castle and then travelled through various parts of England as farmers until arriving back in Kent . |
| 23 | In this country they say that if you do n't like the weather all you have to do is wait five minutes and it will get better . |
| 24 | She did what she thought was right and in this country she said a price . |
| 25 | It aims to achieve a greater spread of awards to people ‘ in any walk of life , well-known or not , whose service to the community , or contribution to life in this country you regard as exceptional ’ . |
| 26 | In this country you cover the cake with poisoned icing . |
| 27 | In this country you get a , you know , child benefit that you and in America you would obviously get a tax deduction if you have children . |
| 28 | And there are people , places , history in this country I 'd never even guessed at , though I sometimes feel I know them anyway . ’ |
| 29 | Adoption was out of the question in this country I think in Grampian region there was four babies for |