Example sentences of "to france [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | North America ranks second only to France as the UK 's most important food and drink export market . |
| 2 | Many Scots words are of French origin , which is bonnie , and an elite guard of the French Monarchy was formed from Scots who journeyed to France as mercenaries . |
| 3 | When Haiducu defected he named , among others , the Romanian Ambassador to France as one of those involved in plots like the one to murder Goma and Tanase . |
| 4 | For example , when the State Department 's Far Eastern Office was trying , unsuccessfully , to put together a compromise paper that would be agreed with the European Office , one may applaud the objective of an Indo-China that was to be fully self-governed , autonomous , and democratic : but there was a world of difference between a ‘ national ’ and a ‘ federal ’ government which would become obvious as events unfolded and the qualification , which Moffat and his colleagues seemed to accept , to full self-government which was explicit in Indo-China 's recommended partnership in the French Union , and was , by implication reserved to France as a matter of imperial concern , precisely the point , or at least the formality , which produced the irreparable break between France and Ho 's infant Republic . |
| 5 | The 1973 crisis , with the embargo on oil and a quadrupling of its price , was a sharp reminder to France of its dependence and vulnerability : at the time , oil covered two thirds of the country 's energy needs , and our overall dependence on foreign sources of energy , including gas and coal , exceeded 75 per cent . |
| 6 | After the flight to France of James II , Ken took part in the Parliamentary Convention which considered the constitutional position ; he voted that William and Mary be declared Regents and against the Resolution declaring the throne to be vacant . |
| 7 | The horror of the battle and the danger to France of those first days had , however , at last become imprinted on Joffre 's sanguine and complacent mind . |
| 8 | Dumas announced France 's decision to grant Syria F39,000,000 ( US$7,000,000 ) in aid , despite problems over the existing Syrian debt to France of F1,200 million . |
| 9 | Observers also noted that the ICRC tended to be associated in Iranian eyes with the Swiss government — with which there were continuing tensions because Switzerland appeared ready to allow the extradition to France of Zeyal Sarhadi , an Iranian suspected of involvement in the August 1991 murder of former Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar [ see pp. 37409 ; 38697 ] . |
| 10 | We 're going to France of course |
| 11 | At the beginning of 1990 the Chinese government protested strongly to France about plans announced on Jan. 3 to sell six frigates to Taiwan . |
| 12 | This looks very like the rerun of a scenario first enacted in the early years of this century , when two unknown expatriate American poets attacked a torpid English literary establishment in the name of nascent modernism , looking to France for their intellectual inspiration and their models of literary achievement . |
| 13 | Sealink British Ferries are running a special offer : a day trip to France for only £7 ( if you travel as a foot passenger ) . |
| 14 | In October this seemingly unbeatable filly went to France for the Prix du Conseil Municipal , and here she met her first defeat , beaten two and a half lengths by the 66–1 outsider Presto . |
| 15 | Swim to France for Daddy |
| 16 | When the Scottish government turned to France for aid in 1547–8 , therefore , it was undoubtedly recognizing that the level of English aggression was both intolerable , and irresistible without foreign help . |
| 17 | In return , Louis-Napoleon agreed not to return to France for some years . |
| 18 | The Maronites were prepared to cooperate with the outside power because they correctly believed that the French wanted a future independent Lebanon which would look to France for protection . |
| 19 | In 1978 , I went over to France for the final day of the parliamentary elections , expecting to stay up for most of the night as one would in the UK . |
| 20 | But the day belonged to biplanes with a stirring co-ordinated aerobatic routine from Vic Norman and Brendan O'Brien in Stearmen ; lyrical singleton aerobatics routines from types as varied as Jungmann , Great Lakes and Stampe ; Barry Tempest crazy flying and taking much advantage of the local topography ; the Diamond Nine Tiger Moth team dominating the intimate skyline with their outstanding final burst ; the Tiger Walk twin Tiger Moth girl-on-the-wing team ; with the weather preventing a migration to France for a booking , the Crunchie Flying Circus aerobatic girls-on-the-wing attended for a show on ‘ home ’ territory . |
| 21 | Moving on to structures , and we look to France for the offer of all year round tennis from the makers of the polygonal , aluminium/fabric system , Walu Structures . |
| 22 | The last was discovered to be infected with eighty types of funghi and was sent to France for treatment . |
| 23 | KENDALL SQUARE GOES TO FRANCE FOR THE RIGHT OBJECT DATABASE FOR PARALLEL KIT |
| 24 | In addition , because of the course of world events , he was turning to look more closely to France for political support . |
| 25 | Above all , Britain had failed to convince the new French president that it could be nothing but a rival to France for European leadership . |
| 26 | To crown this important exhibition of French sculpture , Bellanger has come up with something quite exceptional : Clodion 's ‘ Sacrifice à l'amour ’ , originally shown at the 1773 Salon , which only recently surfaced on the international market and has been brought back to France for this occasion . |
| 27 | I told him we were heading off to France for the weekend . |
| 28 | The early 1330s , therefore , saw the renewal of English involvement in Scotland and in 1334 David II and his wife fled to France for asylum , a development which in its turn seriously complicated England 's relations with France . |
| 29 | The duke 's London residence was Essex House , the property of his brother-in-law , Robert Devereux , third Earl of Essex [ q.v. ] , another of Rose 's employers , who encouraged him to the extent of sending him to France for the first time , probably early in the 1640s . |
| 30 | In the first year Laura wanted to see everything herself so the colours , prints and designs were all taken regularly to France for inspection . |