Example sentences of "in a country [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travelling to polling stations is expensive in a country where many people earn only £100 a year , so wealthy well-organised candidates bus voters to the booths and traditionally nudge them in the right direction with sample ballot sheets with the appropriate names ticked . |
| 2 | Violent incidents of this kind have become commonplace in a country where all human rights are being eroded . |
| 3 | It is this alien presence that has sown alarm in a country where all foreigners — but particularly poor ones with darker skin — are unwelcome . |
| 4 | Moreover , in a country where all supplies of food were quite inadequate , the food provided for our workers was less inadequate than that of others . |
| 5 | In a country where 60 people are slaughtered every day , the beach killings of young mother Julie Godwin and her best friend Elizabeth Over hardly rated a second thought . |
| 6 | In a country where public education is sketchy , it is a double tragedy that TV air time is not used both to teach the three ‘ R's and supplement the four hours per day schooling . |
| 7 | The research agenda encompasses the challenge posed by public management-type reforms to established modes of policy planning and administrative evaluation in French government , and the difficulties encountered in bringing about new administrative values and behaviour in a country where public administration is regulated by administrative law norms that privilege the State in its dealings with citizens . |
| 8 | He genuinely wanted to bring about change in a country where tens of thousands of its people had been tortured or murdered under his father 's regime . |
| 9 | Most certainly , though , we should appreciate how fortunate we are in having medical services , caring people around us , and living in a country where natural disasters are rare compared with many places on this earth . |
| 10 | In a country where teenage rape and murder are on the increase , do we really need this salaciousness and is it responsible to show a programme which lingers over the grisly reminiscences of a psychotic serial murderer ? |
| 11 | Nor is there any reason why the state should tell firms how to attract and keep good staff in a country where qualified labour can be hard to find . |
| 12 | In a country where most of the goods and services exchange for money , GNP can be defined and estimated fairly reliably , given sufficient care . |
| 13 | In a country where most of us are taught to paddle on flat water , should we insist on putting novices into white water boats which are specifically designed to veer off course and then spend millions of man hours teaching them to go straight or should we put novices into boats designed to go in straight lines ? |
| 14 | Babe-obsessed boys like Bill and Ted , Wayne and Garth and MTV 's Pauly Shore might once have been dismissed as metalhead wastoids , but now they 're big box office in a country seemingly intent on celebrating the stupidity of its youth . |
| 15 | Students of Russia who hail from much smaller and less heterogeneous countries might pause to ask themselves whether democratic rule under any kind of government is possible in a country as awesome in its administrative complexity as this one . |
| 16 | In a country as large as Australia the need for transportation fuels is paramount and even to keep growth down to this level will mean continuing efforts at economy by use of smaller cars and the replacement of oil-fired by coal-fired power stations . |
| 17 | Yet even in a country so vast and diverse as the ex-Empire , there were some features that affected most parts , and set up their own horizontal influences at all lower levels of society irrespective of any vertical political pressures acting from a single centre . |
| 18 | In a country so large there really is something for everyone . |
| 19 | His comrades in arms had made their views known to him quite openly and , in any case , he could not have remained ignorant in a country so full of informers , police and intelligence services as Spain then was . |
| 20 | Mary was indeed brought up in a country far wealthier and more powerful than that which she was to rule . |