Example sentences of "[noun] country [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Delegates discussed ways of compensating 50 Third-World countries most seriously affected by the Gulf crisis and criticized the international community for failing to respond adequately to the consequences of the economic blockade of Iraq .
2 The SACIM countries already hold stocks of ivory and Zimbabwe 's national parks department says elephant numbers have become so large that it will have to start culling next year .
3 Other former Eastern bloc countries also face growing concern over their ageing nuclear power stations .
4 Although all four strategies may be separated so as to discuss their major characteristics , in practice countries commonly adopt a combination of two or more types ; ( Murley , 1991 ; UN ECE , 1987 ) .
5 In the event of a casualty involving a vessel in a non-EEC country please consult H O Accident ( Personal ) Claims & Support , for immediate advice on claims handling and the appointment of a Surveyor or Investigator .
6 Distributors for Benelux and Scandinavian markets are currently being finalised — they 'll be announced in May , when a telemarketing campaign for Germany countries also begins .
7 Other EFTA countries also began to consider the possibility of EC membership [ see pp. 38158 ; 38444 ] , which tended to undermine ongoing EC-EFTA negotiations on a common European economic area [ see pp. 38307 ; 38353 ] .
8 Other European countries whose eventual membership is considered possible are Norway and Iceland ( two Efta countries currently displaying absolutely no enthusiasm for the EEC ) , the Baltic states , the former Yugoslav republics , and the other Balkan countries .
9 To suggest that that is the way forward for the future must be objected to by the fact that Sweden , Austria and the EFTA countries now want to join the supranational Community .
10 When the European Economic Area agreement is finalised , the Directive will apply reciprocally in the EFTA countries too .
11 She then goes to a cat country far away which is taken over by bandits . ’
12 This is wilderness country indeed .
13 Third , most families maintain close relationships with their kin in Pakistan , consulting the head of the family about important decisions , sending money back for the purchase of land and visiting the home country as often as possible .
14 Whilst the USSR has been less successful than she had hoped in restricting export volume , CMEA countries nonetheless find themselves obliged to purchase ever larger volumes of fuel from non-CMEA countries at market clearing prices .
15 Students in other Community countries traditionally take wide-ranging curricula which include languages , philosophy , history , law , political science etc , disciplines which provide them not only with directly relevant skills for employment , but also ensure a common set of references and cultural values which are vital to mutual understanding and cooperation .
16 He said that imports through European Community countries now account for half of cocaine seizures , and ‘ the practical reality is we can not afford to have open frontiers with countries like the Netherlands , because the consequence is that drugs in increasing numbers come into our countries . ’
17 The ACP countries also expressed concern that the aims of the convention would be jeopardized by the planned introduction of a single market in the Community by 1992 , the opening towards East European countries , and the EC 's willingness to grant concessions to third countries under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) , all of which were expected to lead to a dilution of aid and benefits for ACP countries and to weaken the EC 's commitment to the convention .
18 At the fourth meeting , in Luxembourg on Oct. 27-30 , the ACP countries formally rejected the EC 's proposals on the amount of financial aid to be provided under the new convention and on trade concessions on agricultural products and other exports .
19 Specific protocols on beef and veal , rum and bananas also took account of the effects of the coming introduction of the single market on ACP countries highly dependent on exports of these products .
20 But then his concentration would slip away from the complexity of it all , and escape into Ashdown country again .
21 ( Average donor country ODA to LDCs during the 1980s had not exceeded 0.09 per cent , and almost all donor countries also still fell well below the UN target for ODA to all developing countries , set at 0.7 per cent of GNP . )
22 The kit system worked well until 1990 , when the donor country suddenly and unexpectedly decided to reduce funding .
23 But it may be that , as in 1066 , the signs are bad for the defending country rather than the interlopers .
24 The Northern Hemisphere countries generally take a more cautious view of any changes .
25 It would also have many applications in Third World countries since it uses rubber tyres in both modes and thereby has an incline capability of ⅙ This means that in Third World countries instead of flattening the mountains and filling the valleys to make them level to one could follow the contours of the countryside and enormously reduce civil engineering costs .
26 The difference between their debts and those of Third World countries however , is that while loan institutions can seize an individual 's assets , they ca n't so easily reclaim a nuclear reactor or a dam .
27 This new attempt to apply Marxism to the Latin American situation has sought little outside inspiration and , when it has done so , has turned to other Third World countries rather than to Moscow .
28 A scientist claims he 's invented a way of making charcoal which could be a life-saver in third world countries desperately short of fuel .
29 Conversely , in Third World countries today , where industrial development is in its infancy , the demand for domestic servants is high ( the supply being fuelled by the decline of subsistence agriculture and by the lack of alternative employment ) .
30 There are very few reported cases of new investment in Third World countries directly replacing UK closures ( as with Garrard Engineering , above ) .
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