Example sentences of "[art] country " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both programmes are the largest of their kind in the country . ’ |
| 2 | AI was last permitted access to the country in 1982 . |
| 3 | The appeal followed numerous reports that Iraqi Government forces were committing these and other human rights violations following the recapture of cities and town in the northern Kurdish and southern Shi'a areas of the country . |
| 4 | A public appeal to the Emir of Kuwait to intervene personally to end the wave of arbitrary arrests , torture and killings in the country since the withdrawal of Iraqi forces , was issued on 19 April by Amnesty International . |
| 5 | Keep the 30th Anniversary log flying around the country for Amnesty 's anniversary . |
| 6 | However even when frontiers are closed fast to Amnesty , information still gets out — via refugees or victims who have fled in fear , ‘ friendly ’ foreigners or nationals inside the country , church , trade union and human rights organizations , journalists or travellers , or from letters smuggled across the border . |
| 7 | Based in the Sinhalese south of the island , the Mothers ' Front has nonetheless stated its intention to embrace those affected by the thousands of ‘ disappearances ’ in the Tamil-dominated areas of the north and east of the country . |
| 8 | Amnesty was last permitted access to the country in 1982 . |
| 9 | Such developments , along with the continuing work of the International Committee of the Red Cross within the country , are welcome in themselves and also give some evidence that the Sri Lankan Government is responsive to criticism from outside the country . |
| 10 | Such developments , along with the continuing work of the International Committee of the Red Cross within the country , are welcome in themselves and also give some evidence that the Sri Lankan Government is responsive to criticism from outside the country . |
| 11 | The rule of law in Sri Lanka has been seriously eroded : in the past three years , over a dozen lawyers have been murdered because of their involvement with human rights cases and at least 20 others have been forced to flee the country after receiving death threats . |
| 12 | If de Klerk can convince the world that South Africa has come far enough in improving its record on human rights , sanctions will be lifted and crucial foreign capital will start flowing into the country . |
| 13 | As there is no provision in the UK immigration rules for issuing visas to asylum seekers overseas , in an embassy or High Commission , there is a contradiction in the requirement of visas for asylum seekers to enter the country . |
| 14 | Commentary or criticism of such art within the country concerned necessarily takes the same position . |
| 15 | In 1909 : ‘ The unattached cyclist on entering Italy with his wheel must deposit 42 fr. 60c. with the custom-house authorities , which sum is returned to him ( though seldom without difficulties ) when he quits the country . ’ |
| 16 | The art discussed may still be in situ , or at least in the country of its origin ; hence the immense attraction of travel to the sites of great civilisations such as Egypt or Mexico . |
| 17 | The art criticism in such books generally has a slant , questioning whether the country or places have had a determining influence on art . |
| 18 | Does an English liking for watercolour spring from the country 's climate ? |
| 19 | She lives with Roche above the city in a ‘ Californian ’ company house on the Ridge : this suburb , barricaded , fireproof perhaps , but lived in by prospective quitters of the country , supplies a further scene for the events of the novel . |
| 20 | At the same time , the reader can be made to feel that , on closer inspection , the country 's politics might prove to be antics too . |
| 21 | The country , formerly a colony , now ‘ independent ’ , is controlled by a black ‘ big man ’ in the capital down-river . |
| 22 | All three have international sponsors , and Kapuscinski is to find out that the South Africans have invaded in the south of the country , having fallen in love with Savimbi . |
| 23 | He takes it for a walk — such walks have long been a ritual activity of the country 's more optimistic male poor , the dog more expensively jacketed than the chap . |
| 24 | I remember dark , solemn and suspicious looks , as a travelling family was given tea in the back-garden of a house in the country . |
| 25 | William Congreve 's Love for Love and The Way of the World are highly decorated in language , and sharp in wit ; to compare with these , you could look at William Wycherley 's more ‘ basic ’ comedy , The Country Wife . |
| 26 | Mrs Sullen is a young gentlewoman , living in the country much against her will , and chafing against marriage to a drunken brute . |
| 27 | In this scene the country 's president , Mageeba , talks with an Australian journalist . |
| 28 | Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London , which was followed by repertory theatre in various parts of the country , national tours , and theatre abroad , Vienna , Stockholm , the Caribbean , and a British Council tour of Betrayal in Switzerland and Portugal . |
| 29 | But the country areas and particularly the West were overwhelmingly against the proposal . |
| 30 | In the country , they come largely from rural small holders and farm labourers . |