Example sentences of "in [adj] country [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he wishes the children , both of whom were born in Australia , to be brought up in that country where he will be content with access to them . |
| 2 | Indeed , there is a greater likelihood that they could give the names of more researchers in the same field in another country than they could give the names of staff in other disciplines in the same building . |
| 3 | His wish was not to rake over the past of men who had lived peacefully in this country since they came to Britain as refugees after the war , he said . |
| 4 | She was teaching in a private school in this country before she came to us . |
| 5 | it is true that it is currently harder for me to get any kind of sympathetic press coverage in this country than it is anywhere else in Europe . ’ |
| 6 | The Minister will probably claim that the decline in the number of smokers is greater in this country than it is in Italy and in France . |
| 7 | It was even just possible that I should have to spend more of the war in this country than I had done in my own . |
| 8 | So history 's a very much broader and more popular subject in this country than I think it is in almost any other country in the world . |
| 9 | You know the first time I came in this country cos it was not decimal yet |
| 10 | Norsk Hydro UK broke new ground in this country when it published an externally verified environmental report in October 1990 . |
| 11 | It never ceases to amaze me just how backward we are in this country when it comes to the use of boats and Peripheral equipment . |
| 12 | Does he accept that not only that youth 's family but many other people have a total lack of comprehension as to how someone could be hanged in this country when he was in police custody when the gun was fired and the unfortunate police officer was killed by another person ? |
| 13 | Ye get bombed in this country if ye show a light . |
| 14 | The respective rights of young and old — whether for health or welfare and income support — have not generally been articulated as sharply in this country as they have in the United States . |
| 15 | It is not , however , as clear-cut in this country as it is on the continent . |
| 16 | A university is after all fundamentally an academic institution , world famous universities of course have all sorts of other attributes er for example , er theatres er as well as er sports grounds and that is just as true in this country as it is for example in the United States or Australia or even in the non-English speaking world . |
| 17 | Our musical Aunt Anna took care of us in this country until we were able to look after ourselves . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's possible — he knows I 'll be looking for him — but he 'll have to remain in this country until he can collect his legacy , and by then he 'll expect me to have given up . ’ |
| 19 | why they do n't change over in this country because we 're the odd one out and if they make cars they 've got ta make them with the steering wheel one side or the other |
| 20 | I mean , if you went to America and told them told a bu , American business man that to invest in this country because we 've got a lot of ! |
| 21 | As my honourable friend said from the front bench , the Labour party is absolutely firmly committed now both by the voices of the leadership and the votes and the resolutions at our party conference that we are in favour of a proportional representation system for the European parliament and I hope that when the elections come Mr Deputy Speaker , and people will be arguing about why they 're voting for Europe on June the ninth in one boundary as opposed to another and why they 've got erm erm different rules for this election of course as indeed for the last European election because the registration will be different , allowing all kinds of erm how can I put it foreigners in inverted commas , to vote in our elections in this country because it is the European elections that we will actually put the point across that er for the future there will be different arrangements made indeed . |