Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [prep] [art] country " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Netherlands is the seat of war , all the peasants grow rich , for they pay no rent when the enemy is in the country , and provisions sell at a high rate . ’ |
| 2 | Because his exhibition programme was among the country 's ( and the world 's ) most impressive , the museum is now deemed a premier destination for philanthropic largesse . |
| 3 | Amnesty knows , for example , what the long term pattern of abuse is in a country : the known torture methods , the likely victims , the agencies regularly implicated in violations . |
| 4 | A large part of his wealth is in a country with which Britain does not have diplomatic relations . |
| 5 | My real home is in the country near Hungerford . |
| 6 | The picture emerging from Romania this week is of a country barely under control . |
| 7 | ‘ The difficulty for so many people in towns is that most of the information about the countryside is in the country . |
| 8 | It said nothing relevant to the well being of the country ; it was blank space titivated by invective and promises of massive cash hand outs . |
| 9 | If the garden is in the country near woodland than timber may be the best material to use . |
| 10 | An obviously desirable situation is for a country to have a sufficiency of well educated and trained teachers working for reasonable lengths of time in areas where they are familiar with the people and their culture . |
| 11 | But however important the possession of oil is for a country , oil exporters such as Nigeria , Mexico and Egypt demonstrate that oil alone is no guarantee of general prosperity . |
| 12 | Yet if the example is modified a little , so that the overtaking is on a country road at night and the risk is known to be slight , it becomes questionable whether the causing of death in these circumstances should be labelled in the same way as intentional killings . |
| 13 | No more than 15 pairs of the bird are in the country , and the pair which has appeared at the site for the last 15 years is the only one in the south-west . |
| 14 | Our impression over a two week jaunt round the Republic was of a country shedding the shackles of its tortured past without sacrificing its most endearing features . |