Example sentences of "of [art] country [unc] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | VISITORS to Belgium often sneer at the scruffy appearance of the country 's towns , farms and people , and pointedly note how much neater everything is as soon as you cross the border into Holland . |
| 2 | A right-wing group , the Committee to Save Democracy , supported by one-quarter of the country 's mayors and by armed former contras , blocked major roads with barricades in November to back demands for ( i ) a bigger role for Godoy in the government ; ( ii ) the dismissal of Gen. Ortega ; ( iii ) the withdrawal of troops from several regions ; and ( iv ) the dismissals of Lacayo , Minister of the Presidency , and Hurtado , the Interior Minister , who were claimed to be the chief architects of government policy [ see pp. 37849-50 ] . |
| 3 | In a similar vein , Geis ( 1978 : 281 ) writes that ‘ the heavy electrical equipment price-fixing conspiracy alone involved theft from the American people of more money than was stolen in all of the country 's robberies , burglaries , and larcenies during the years in which the price fixing occurred ’ . |
| 4 | The Australian government has announced that it intends to allow logging in all of the country 's forests except those already protected as reserves or national parks . |
| 5 | At present , only 2 per cent of the country 's forests enjoy any protected status . |
| 6 | Economically , Jordan was in severe trouble before the crisis , and total adherence to a UN trade embargo on Iraq [ see p. 37639 below ] could mean the loss of a quarter of the country 's exports ; Jordan was also dependent upon Iraq for almost all of its oil supplies . |
| 7 | The government 's decision to devalue the taka by as much as 11 per cent in 1990 , reportedly in response to the IMF 's pressure for a 15 per cent devaluation to improve the competitiveness of the country 's exports , helped ease the balance-of-payments deficit , leading by May 1991 to foreign exchange reserves standing at around US$700,000,000 . |
| 8 | Keen above all to protect the interests of the country 's farmers , and abandoning the doctrine of laissez faire in a period of crisis , parliament moved with alacrity to pass the Corn Law of 1815 . |
| 9 | Its mujahedin commander , Maulvi Nassim Akhundzadeh , is rated by drug enforcement experts as the ‘ Mr Big ’ of the Golden Crescent , responsible for at least one fifth of the country 's narcotics traffic . |
| 10 | Opium farmers ' income is tiny compared with Pakistan 's drug barons and owners of heroin laboratories , and they are regarded by many as the impoverished , innocent end of the country 's narcotics business . |
| 11 | Together , the savings banks control 27% of the country 's deposits , lending to businesses as well as to individuals . |
| 12 | The daily Clarín reported on March 3 that under a decree signed by Menem on Feb. 26 , 1990 ( expanding an earlier decree of March 10 , 1989 , introduced after the La Tablada attack — see p. 36394 and below ) , the armed forces were entitled to intervene in the event of " a state of internal disturbance " serious enough to endanger the life , liberty , property or security of the country 's inhabitants ; with this in mind the National Security Council [ see p. 36613 ] was to draw up plans for possible joint actions by the police , the security forces and the armed forces . |
| 13 | Of the first of these developments one of the earliest examples was the publication in Sweden from 1824 onwards of a list of the country 's consuls and vice-consuls . |
| 14 | This is the last thing that 58 of the country 's batsmen have seen this season before losing their wicket . |
| 15 | However , at the time of the broadcast Iraqi forces were still working to secure complete control of Kuwait City , as well as of the country 's ports and oil terminals . |
| 16 | Work started on rebuilding utilities and refineries , and the government began administering the operation of the country 's ports , which had previously been under militia control . |
| 17 | The strike had involved at least 44,000 of the country 's miners in wildcat sympathy actions and had resulted in 3,700 arrests and 71 casualties . |
| 18 | This resulted in a furious argument between Clinton and Jackson which , while appearing to threaten Clinton 's level of support among black voters , had the immediate effect of reinvigorating his campaign by propelling him once again on to the front pages of the country 's newspapers . |
| 19 | The toxic PCBs are present in many of the country 's rivers , says the WWF , and are largely responsible for the decline of the species which in England is now only found in Northumberland , the West Country and a small area of East Anglia . |
| 20 | Did the trade union movement really fail to grasp that the two pre-conditions were : first , that its sense of responsibility must be seen not to be limited to a commitment in the shorter term to contribute to recovery from immediate crisis , but to extend , at the expense of short-run advantage , to the longer term commitment , to the revival of British industry and to its successful competition in world markets ; and secondly , that a Labour Government would have to preside over the management of the country 's affairs ? |
| 21 | But the conviction too often remains that any extra money in the government pot will somehow find its way into the pockets of the country 's leaders . |
| 22 | All the rest of the Norwegian types are now considered extinct as separate breeds or are rare : 98 per cent of the country 's cattle are now of the Norwegian Red type , which can be solid red or red with some white . |
| 23 | For example , in the eighteenth century pleuro-pneumonia killed about two-thirds of the country 's cattle , especially in the low-lying lands in the north , and farmers were forced to restock from less devastated regions such as the offshore Friesian Islands . |
| 24 | Botswana 's wildlife is disappearing in the face of the rapid expansion of the country 's cattle industry , primarily aimed at providing beef for export to Europe . |
| 25 | By a process which almost seemed inevitable the State found itself directing a major part of the country 's industries , and controlling or licensing most of the remainder . |
| 26 | THE SOVIET government is introducing emergency measures to stave off a winter economic crisis , including a 15-month ban on strikes in key industries and drastic moves to ensure the normal operation of the country 's railways — above all to break Azerbaijan 's blockade of Armenia . |
| 27 | All three major candidates agreed that the influence of the country 's chaebols — large business conglomerates which had traditionally worked closely with the government — should be curbed and a greater emphasis placed upon laissez-faire economics . |
| 28 | Club members help North-East riders with the cost of competing in many of the country 's championships . |
| 29 | On May 7 Brizan accused the previous administration of mismanagement of the country 's finances , increasing the island 's debt and budget deficit as spending had exceeded targets . |
| 30 | The first concern was the stabilisation of the country 's finances . |