Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] the [num] countries " in BNC.
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| 1 | Describing the contacts between the two countries as a " positive development " , Vellayati also said that the exchange of prisoners of war between the two countries , abruptly suspended by Iraq in September [ see p. 37727 ] , would resume shortly . |
| 2 | On the eve of his departure from Moscow , Roh stated that he was " very satisfied with the results " of his visit which , he suggested , represented " a giant step inspiring a new , hopeful era in the peoples of the two countries " . |
| 3 | Lingering in the background was the English claim to overlordship of Scotland , occasionally dragged out as a diplomatic counter to Scottish military ambitions on England 's northern border ; but these neither seriously interrupted the peace between the two countries nor undermined Scotland 's status as an independent kingdom . |
| 4 | The disparity of the two countries provoked a rough division of French politicians into two schools of thought . |
| 5 | Almost inevitably , however , day-to-day irritants and culturally blinkered judgements by both sides aggravated the tensions between the two countries even before policy decisions became the source of more substantive disputes . |
| 6 | The preliminary talks , which had begun in November , represented the first formal contact between the governments of the two countries after more than four decades of implacable hostility . |
| 7 | The governments of the two countries agreed in January 1991 on a basic framework for future formal links [ see p. 37949 ] . |
| 8 | This gross difference is unlikely to be the result solely of the way in which the Directive is implemented in the two countries — other influences are also at work — but the implementation of the Directive in the two countries is certainly different in several respects . |
| 9 | Article Three , the treaty 's key article , stated that the " connection between the security of the two countries requires that Lebanon not become a source of threat to Syria 's security and vice versa under any circumstances … therefore , Lebanon will not allow itself to become a transit point or base for any force , state or organization that seeks to undermine its security or that of Syria " . |
| 10 | Yeltsin made an official visit to Italy on Dec. 19-20 , signing with the Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti a joint declaration establishing the basis for the two countries ' relationship . |
| 11 | The difference between the two countries is that in Britain such sources are primary sources , and in the United States , the primary source is the written document . |
| 12 | The difference between the two countries is that the formal wording of the United States Constitution can be amended only by an extraordinary process , i.e. , one that goes beyond the provisions employed for amending the ordinary law . |
| 13 | Van-Dúnem spoke of the need for the two countries to co-operate in establishing the basis for economic integration in the region . |
| 14 | These complex relationships have been central to the fortunes of the two countries over the past three centuries . |
| 15 | Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir , himself Polish-born , had once commented that " Poles suck in anti-Semitism with their mothers ' milk " , and a main purpose of Walesa 's visit was to ease the strains between the two countries centring on enduring Polish anti-Semitism ; Walesa himself was still trying to live down the controversy caused by a statement during his 1990 presidential campaign that he was " clean " because his family had no Jewish blood . |
| 16 | The fence , which it was estimated would cost over US$560 million to build , would have a secondary function of marking the border between the two countries . |
| 17 | The Czechoslovakian scheme could entail diverting the Danube and redefining the border between the two countries , a violation of national treaties . |
| 18 | An Austrian commission of inquiry into the condition of a Czech reactor just inside the border between the two countries has found it to be in an extremely dangerous state . |
| 19 | The programme , which involves four hydro-electric power plants , has already drawn opposition from Greenpeace , the World Wide Fund for Nature , and Greek environmental groups , who fear that it will damage the ecosystem of Thrace , which straddles the border between the two countries . |
| 20 | The US and Mexican governments are examining a proposal to set up an environmental fund to help tackle pollution problems on the border between the two countries . |
| 21 | According to All-India Radio , Bhattarai proposed a meeting with the Indian Prime Minister , V. P. Singh , in order to resolve the problems between the two countries . |
| 22 | This joint initiative did not preclude individual mediation efforts by GCC member states : in 1985 Saudi Arabia promoted an exchange of foreign ministers ' visits with Iran and made other efforts to overcome the estrangement between the two countries resulting from the Eagle-Phantom air battle and Iran 's resentment of Saudi and other GCC support for Iraq . |
| 23 | This proved not to be the case , partly because the relationship between the two countries underwent a transformation in the period 1966–70 . |
| 24 | In the case of the Hundred Years War , the causes of the conflict were to be found both in the long historic links between England and France , links which were gradually becoming weaker , and in the need to express in new terms the relationship between the two countries ( arguably the two most powerful in western society in the late Middle Ages ) taking into account elements such as national consciousness and diverging methods of government ( to name but two ) which historians recognise as being characteristic of late medieval European society as a whole . |
| 25 | Bush visited Japan on Jan. 7-10 and held several sessions of talks with the beleaguered Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa , when they agreed on a vaguely worded Tokyo Declaration which expressed the commitment of the two countries to work together in support of a new world order . |
| 26 | Earlier , on Aug. 19 , a spokesman for the AIG had appealed to the leaders of the ( ultimately unsuccessful ) Soviet coup to " open a new chapter in the relations of the two countries by removing the puppet regime in Kabul " . |
| 27 | Indeed a Foreign Office official in 1947 expected trade and international finance to be the areas most likely to test the relations of the two countries " over the next few years " . |
| 28 | Whereas THE NETHERLANDS should not pose too much of a problem , ROMANIA , given the chequered history of the relations between the two countries , could upset the Welsh plans . |
| 29 | Egypt 's independence had been a unilateral declaration by Britain ; and the reservations imposed were to become a running sore in the relations between the two countries . |
| 30 | A breakthrough was achieved on July 3 , with the agreement in principle that the Premiers of the two countries should meet in Seoul in the near future . |