Example sentences of "[adv prt] by foreign " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visa restrictions brought in by foreign governments in co-operation with the Chinese authorities in March and April of 1988 did little to reduce the queues of hopefuls in the embassy districts of Beijing and Shanghai . |
| 2 | Equally important , how many of them will be strong enough to avoid being taken over by foreign companies in the long run ? |
| 3 | Oyston sees the north being reduced to Third World status , and is alarmed that the country is being taken over by foreign investment . |
| 4 | The more valuable emergency aid was siphoned off by foreign ministry officials for their own use or re-sale ( just as many of the outpourings of Western sympathy for the orphans and destitute of Ceauşescu 's Romania were purloined by the same fat-cats in the ministries early in 1990 after the fall of their master ) . |
| 5 | The problem is compounded when we allow our leading businesses — Rowntree and perhaps Cadbury 's and others — to be bought up by foreign predators so that our muscle is destroyed . |
| 6 | But Althusser 's example indicates that there can also be contradictions between aspects of one practice , such as the methods of production which are used in urban and in rural districts , between social groups , for example different factions of a ruling class , and between aspects of two societies , such as the contradictions thrown up by foreign policy . |
| 7 | For Sun Yat-sen , the leader of the revolution , China was a slab of meat waiting to be carved up by foreign powers , a loose sheet of sand incapable of being coherently organised . |
| 8 | And they say any spare cars are being snapped up by foreign buyers . |
| 9 | The point is that so much economic growth in Latin America , from the enclave economy to contemporary multinationals , has been brought about by foreign concerns , which has denied the local entrepreneurial groups their historic role in leading , organising and financing this process . |