Example sentences of "that france be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It remains true that Switzerland is not a place for ‘ convenience ’ skiing in the way that France is . |
| 2 | Blithely oblivious to the fact that France is about the only member country with any money that is not running an enormous budget deficit , the European Commission yesterday outlined a grandiose plan to spend $15,000m on a network to link bureaucracies in the 12 European Community countries to help their authorities to exchange information in areas from social security to natural disasters in the single market . |
| 3 | What are the prospects for mining specialist Bernard Pache hanging on to the top job at state-owned Compagnie des Machines Bull SA now that France is to have a new administration ? |
| 4 | It 's wrong , Mr Deputy Speaker , if they 're living in this country erm on a semi-permanent basis and happen to have been here last October they 'll have a vote so will any everybody else who 's a citizen of the European union , so will peers of the realm who happen to be living elsewhere whether they 're in this country or outside this country under these regulations and previous regulations , have a vote in the European elections and I think it 's wholly wrong that erm citizens of other European countries namely France because that 's the one and it 's remarkable is it not that France is the one that 's gon na be the cause of this whole edifice collapsing if we do n't submit to their extra demands but citizens of France who are citizens living in their colonies , as I 've said in South America , the West Indies and the Pacific , will have a vote in the European elections on June the ninth and yet we have got citizens for whom we are responsible for in this house , we can not shirk it onto anyone else , we deny them the responsibility and I think it 's about time the house addressed this matter . |
| 5 | And despite its reputation for being wrapped in red tape , figures from the Scottish Council Development & Industry show that France is already one of the top destinations for Scottish produce . |
| 6 | ‘ A Frenchman is not a Brit with a beret and a baguette , but having said that France is not a difficult market but a different market . |
| 7 | ‘ We need to show this generation of British players that France are not unbeatable in Paris . |
| 8 | Rob Andrew , his captain , added : ‘ Not one player in that team had won in Paris , and now we know that France are vulnerable when you keep running at them . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Major got off to a stickier start with President Mitterrand , who neglected to tell him about the Gulf peace plan that France was about to launch in mid-January . |
| 10 | While Mark was in Dublin the head of the French Development Authority DATAR paid a courtesy visit to Detroit to make the point to Nate Cocello , and Chairman , Tom O'Reilly that France was keen to attract very much more United Motors investment . |
| 11 | This came about because the general feeling in the European capitals was that France was a victim of Prussian provocation and that the candidature should be withdrawn . |
| 12 | It was now clear to her that France was alone and must do the best it could by its own efforts . |
| 13 | He said that France was still shipping the missiles to Argentina because they had signed a contract . |
| 14 | Wordsworth felt that the wheel had indeed come full circle or rather , to use his own expression , that France was like a ‘ dog/Returning to his vomit ’ ( Prelude 1805 , x , 935 ) . |
| 15 | It was for that reason that France was hostile to both proposals : de Gaulle had already expressed his belief that the Commission already had too much power . |
| 16 | What they perhaps did not realise at the time was that France was not prepared to compromise . |
| 17 | The point was that France was protesting not so much about its inability to get its way on agricultural policy nor about the latter 's incorporation into a package , but more about the political or supranational elements of the package . |
| 18 | At a time when most German princes had small armies they would supply on a cash basis to the highest bidder who was not actually attacking them himself , the British subsidies to Frederick had a very direct effect in keeping the German campaign going and making sure that France was tied to the continent of Europe . |
| 19 | It was obvious that France was determined to keep the lid on . |
| 20 | It would seem from the record , therefore , that France was not prepared to dismantle her colonial empire . |
| 21 | The result was that when Bollaert finally made his speech on 10 September it was obvious that , for all the rhetoric and for all the idealization of the French Union , if it was independence that France was offering , it was so heavily circumscribed as to make it obvious that France had , at most , transferred the Jacobin concept of ‘ the nation one and indivisible ’ to a French Union in which she would still be in a commanding position . |
| 22 | Yet he recognised too that France was no Superpower , he was ready to retreat when necessary and he knew that , in the last analysis , Europe needed America to balance the USSR . |
| 23 | Soon it was clear that France was overrun and men began arriving home from the evacuation at Dunkirk . |
| 24 | During a visit to Baghdad on Dec. 11-12 the French Foreign Affairs Minister , Roland Dumas , said that France was ready to discuss new payments facilities with Iraq provided that Iraq settled some arrears in the repayment of F1,850 million as agreed in September . |
| 25 | However , some reports claimed that France was also eager to sever the deal in order to limit its risk in a country already in arrears on foreign debt repayments . |
| 26 | After Cheney 's visit the French Prime Minister Edith Cresson said that France was concerned about a more active European military posture , although she stressed that " the Americans must not be concerned by [ that ] " . |
| 27 | On Nov. 29 it was announced that France was to send an official military " observation unit " to the north of the country , where it would patrol and prevent infiltration across the international border . |
| 28 | French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas commented on Dec. 6 that France was " not supporting dictatorships but neither are we going to play around with expeditionary forces " . |
| 29 | News of the Italian support followed announcements in December that France was granting a credit of US$17,000,000 for the reconstruction of a mineral water source ; that the European Communities ( EC ) had allocated US$140,000,000 to assist in the country 's socio-economic reconstruction programmes ; and that the African Development Bank was granting US$75,000,000 for agricultural projects . |
| 30 | Prime Minister Pierre Bérégovoy , a former resistance fighter , declared in the National Assembly on April 15 that France was " wounded " and that " we will not rehabilitate the Vichy regime on the sly " . |