Example sentences of "[that] the country " in BNC.
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| 1 | His view is that what the Soviet Union has in small quantities is as good as the technology of the West , but that the country lacks the ability to turn out production volumes . |
| 2 | The problem will then return to the Government 's desk , and I hope it will then accept that the country can have no more universities , and no more university places , than it can afford . |
| 3 | If it continues , it will cumulatively demolish the government 's principal justification for refusing all political reforms : that the country 's economy is healthy , and there is no need for change . |
| 4 | No-one is yet talking about a ‘ new ’ Lebanon but there is now widespread acceptance among both Muslims and Christians in the Lebanese parliament that the country 's unwritten national covenant is now obsolete . |
| 5 | But whether a monetarist or exchange rate policy is preferred it ought to be clear that the country can no longer endure an ambiguous mix of the two . |
| 6 | Mr Mandela 's hand was discernible in the ANC negotiating proposal put out in August ; in the successful campaign of mass protest before the 6 September white election ; and in a silent scheme by some of the leaders of the black ‘ homelands ’ to flat-foot Mr de Klerk by publicly declaring that the country can not be partitioned along racial and tribal lines . |
| 7 | To provide a polite reminder that the country was started by Englishmen they took the Queen to a hostel called Raffles Hall and Westin Stamfords , another hotel . |
| 8 | Indeed one characteristic of British democracy is that the country is normally ruled by the party that lies second or third in the opinion polls ( if we take averages over all months since polls began , giving each month equal weight ) . |
| 9 | But he would have preferred Lord Halifax to Churchill as prime minister in 1940 and even in retrospect believed that the country would have fought the war better under Halifax and that the admirals and the generals would have had a less neurotic time . |
| 10 | impressed upon the Prime Minister that the country had to be saved and that there should be a combination of all decent minded politicians towards this end . |
| 11 | One understands from these films why critic Gavin Lambert remarked of his departure from England in 1956 that the country ‘ really seemed in the doldrums , like it had lost the war almost . ’ |
| 12 | But he said it would be quite wrong to say that the country 's history had been one long mistake since the revolution . |
| 13 | The leader of all the Russias admitted that the country 's economic and social crisis amounted to a ‘ sword of Damocles ’ hanging over it . |
| 14 | It reminded him of shop stewards with their sleeves rolled up in those endless conferences when it was said that the country was being held to ransom . |
| 15 | The agricultural experts pushing crop substitution programmes may congratulate themselves on Pakistan 's declining opium output , but the truth is that the country is now specialising more in processing and marketing . |
| 16 | A condition for membership of the EC is that the country must be a full parliamentary democracy . |
| 17 | A condition for membership of the EC is that the country must be a full parliamentary democracy . |
| 18 | The service 's efficiency can be gauged by the fact that the country 's dissident movement is small to the point of being tiny and that the cult of President Ceausescu 's personality has been unassailable . |
| 19 | THE provisonal government of Romania made itself very much less provisional yesterday by decreeing significant constitutional changes , including the fact that the country is no longer a socialist republic . |
| 20 | While it was generally accepted that the country was economically near bankruptcy and would need time and a continuation of generous American aid to effect recovery , few people doubted the economy could be rebuilt faster than that of devastated Europe and Japan . |
| 21 | Although the defence of the West depended primarily on the American nuclear umbrella , he could justifiably claim that there was a wide measure of agreement in Britain that the country must possess ‘ an appreciable element of nuclear deterrent power ’ of its own . |
| 22 | These would have to be stringent enough to ensure that the country 's borrowing did not put pressure on national or Community interest rates . |
| 23 | It is one sign among many that the country is at last moving away from post-communist politics and towards modern European democracy . |
| 24 | The trouble is that the country where the Kurds have fewest rights is Turkey . |
| 25 | Last year a group of 45 Fortune 500 chief executives and university presidents , known as the Business-Higher Education Forum , published a report saying that the country could not ignore the growing isolation of its inner-city minorities . |
| 26 | There were few predictions of a Tory victory at the next general election and even some concern that the country might topple over into serious civil strife . |
| 27 | It believes that the Country needs a return of the sane principles of ‘ peace , retrenchment , and reform ’ , which formed the basis of Liberal policy a generation ago . |
| 28 | The Presbytery has not encouraged party political participation and it has only been because we felt certainly that Dr Paisley 's position , that the country needs it and we felt that he should be allowed to go . |
| 29 | As George Graham put it : ‘ The day has come when we see that the country has gone to the dogs . |
| 30 | Like the French and Burgundians , d'Ayala was aware of the fighting qualities of the Scots ; it was indeed , he claimed , because they preferred fighting to work that the country was poor , rather than because of a lack of natural resources . |