Example sentences of "canada and the [noun] states " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the IRFU did nothing for its cause by not awarding caps for the matches against Canada and the United States and by refusing to pay the players the regulation daily allowance because the tour was one day short of the stipulated duration . |
| 2 | Somehow the country has managed to consume more energy per capita than anywhere else other than rich ( and notoriously thriftless ) Canada and the United States and at the same time plunge into a state close to bankruptcy . |
| 3 | In Canada and the United States there are coroners , but they are rarely used . |
| 4 | The commissioners are doing what West Indians are best at , and talking to everybody imaginable — including their exile communities in Britain , Canada and the United States — about whether , and if so how , to work more closely together . |
| 5 | His subsequent promotion to the rank of brigadier was an indication of the growing military co-operation between Canada and the United States . |
| 6 | In Canada and the United States there is roughly a car to every two persons , in Japan six persons , in Brazil 15 persons , in Colombia 32 , Indonesia 207 , India 786 and Bangladesh 1,981 . |
| 7 | Moreover , with the exception of countries such as Japan , Canada and the United States , few public funds were targeted at retraining schemes for this age group . |
| 8 | SCIENTISTS from Canada and the United States have given up attempts to agree about what effect acid rain is having on the environment of North America . |
| 9 | Scientists excavating the fossilized remains of about twenty nests containing from 1 to 24 eggs each , in southern Alberta near the border between Canada and the United States in 1987 , suggest that dinosaurs were more socially complex than was first thought . |
| 10 | ROWEN SHEPHERD , Edinburgh Academicals ' stand-off , who was back-up to Craig Chalmers on Scotland 's tour to Canada and the United States last year , is turning to a new career at fullback . |
| 11 | Her book , ‘ Hands to the Plough ’ added interest to her dynamic speaking as she travelled widely , making the needs and opportunities known to young believers in Canada and the United States . |
| 12 | This is shown by comparing at the extremes Sweden , Norway and Austria in the top left-hand segment , with Canada and the United States in the bottom right-hand corner . |
| 13 | Similar trends are evident in the economies of Japan , Canada and the United States which indicate that labour has shifted out of the primary sector into the service sector prior to or in parallel with the expansion of the manufacturing sector ( Singelmann , 1978 ) . |
| 14 | The inevitability of this historical progression through the sectors does not , however , fit with the examples of the UK , Japan , Canada and the United States . |
| 15 | Today , FSP/UK , an independent member of a network which includes six South Pacific countries , Australia , Canada and the United States , is committed to finding funds for the Malaria/AIDS programme . |
| 16 | In 1874 he toured Canada and the United States . |
| 17 | In Australia , Canada and the United States during the 1970s inquiries into the political police and internal-security agencies demonstrated clearly that reliance on interviews with chief constables and general assertions of good faith by all concerned would be inadequate . |
| 18 | In Canada and the United States representatives of the Travellers ' Aid society were to be found at most large stations to advise women . |
| 19 | Hunting was a common pursuit of station-masters in game-rich areas in Canada and the United States , above all in Mozambique , Rhodesia , Kenya , and elsewhere in Africa . |
| 20 | Throughout western Canada and the United States , in the interior of Latin America , in Australasia and the settler territories of Africa , the provision of railway stations was the vital adjunct of settlement . |
| 21 | Commodities like fish , milk , and vegetables might be transferred locally ; labourers — as in India and Southern Africa — regionally , together with grain , rice , coal , and perhaps some manufactured goods ; while the great international transfers included human migrants , cotton from India , Egypt , the United States , and some parts of Africa and Latin America , tea from India and Ceylon , coffee from Latin America , wheat from Canada and the United States , gold from South Africa , silver from Mexico , copper from Central Africa and South America , cattle from the Argentine and the United States , lamb , wool , and dairy products from Australasia . |
| 22 | Rates of maternal mortality are much higher in the developing than in the developed regions , averaging 10.1 and 9.3 , respectively , for nine Northern European countries and for Canada and the United States combined compared to about 80 deaths per 100,000 live births for the Arab World and around 70 for Asia and Oceania . |
| 23 | Promoting Historic Scotland abroad has taken Bill to conferences and trade missions in South East Asia , Japan , Germany , Canada and the United States in the last year . |
| 24 | Could not the European Community learn something from north America , where a tariff-free trade area , consisting of Canada and the United States and soon to be joined by Mexico , has been created ? |
| 25 | This international seminar brings together rural geographers from Britain , Canada and the United States to compare their research methods and findings on the theme of ‘ rural restructuring ’ , with a view to establishing international collaboration in future comparative research . |
| 26 | Vaclav Havel , the Czechoslovak President , on Feb. 17 departed for official visits to Iceland , Canada and the United States , accompanied by Marian Calfa , the federal Prime Minister . |
| 27 | Environment ministers from 32 European countries plus Canada and the United States , which together produced 70 per cent of the world 's CO2 emissions , met in Bergen , Norway , on May 8-16 to follow up the 1987 Brundtland report on improving the global environment [ see pp. 35227-29 ] . |
| 28 | A controversial book was published in Canada and the United States in September by Victor Ostrovsky , a former employee of Israel 's Mossad secret intelligence agency . |
| 29 | An agreement to improve air quality in Canada and the United States was signed by Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney , and US President George Bush during a visit by the latter to Ottawa , the Canadian capital , on March 13 . |
| 30 | , Mercury accumulation in lakes across Canada and the United States continues to pose a threat to health , despite earlier claims that it had virtually been eliminated as a problem , according to recent studies . |