Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] country " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could have been a serious road accident with a dozen or so frightened animals careering about country lanes . |
| 2 | Some were convincingly disguised as country houses , with entrance gates and spreading lawns , such as the Black Horse , Northfield , Birmingham or the Hare and Hounds , Kingstanding Road , Perry Barr . |
| 3 | What changes , or what differs between countries , is why they happen and how they take place . |
| 4 | It should be emphasized that private markets have remained the main source of financing for countries with balance of payments problems . |
| 5 | Er , it would n't matter to the leather trade as such or to any of the countries , er if there was no saddling and harness trade , and that goes for countries like erm , Britain and France and Germany and United States and so on . |
| 6 | The cyclicity of support has varied between countries , as has the depth and persistence of that support . |
| 7 | In the centre of this grouping was the telephone administration itself ; its exact status varied between countries from being within a central government Department ( as in France ( to being a partly state-owned commercial company ( Italy and Spain ) . |
| 8 | Throughout my many years in the travel industry , I have always believed tourism has an important part to play in the spreading of understanding between countries , as well as being a catalyst for economic development . |
| 9 | Goods passing from one country to another have to be paid for ; trading between countries thus involves the creation of debts between countries . |
| 10 | Trade credits or deficits accrued between countries A & B are used by country C or C & D [ complex switches are possible ] to effect a multi-national balancing of payments . |
| 11 | Stella Lowry 's analysis of the problems affecting medical education ( which ends this week , p 000 ) holds for countries other than Britain . |
| 12 | But if you have the luck to come of country stock then you should never sever your roots , no matter how great the temptation to ‘ improve ’ yourself , or to inhabit more glorious scenery , or to be nearer a railway station . |
| 13 | Well New Zealand looks like country and |
| 14 | Appreciating that Britain had become even more vulnerable to air attack , children living in ‘ target areas ’ , such as London , were again evacuated into country areas , and in June 1940 , Strand-on-the-Green School was closed in Chiswick and reopened in Cornwall . |
| 15 | It may be so , if it is a personal Christmas card list , for example ; but if the same modest list were to be headed ‘ suspected sympathisers with the X Party ’ ( or the Y terrorist group ) , or ‘ directors of companies believed to be trading with country Z ’ — there could be danger to those on the list if it fell into the hands of evil-minded zealots — and perhaps then the shorter the list the greater the danger . |
| 16 | Be extra careful when walking along country roads . |
| 17 | Like most radio services , paging is limited by the regulatory authorities ' allocation of frequencies , which tend to differ from country to country . |
| 18 | As you will know we 're given large sums of money by governments , the E E C and others , to work in countries in need , to tackle specific tasks . |
| 19 | The impact of the migrants has varied from country to country , but two areas which stand out as having been profoundly affected throughout the continent are housing and employment . |
| 20 | Agricultural productivity varied from country to country with its structure . |
| 21 | They will want to know why we did not appreciate the inconvenience and stupidity of having to change currency constantly as one moved from country to country in the Community . |
| 22 | During a gathering of families at beautiful Seal Park , to christen a grandchild and celebrate the return of the good life after the War , a battle for succession is resolved in Country ( BBC-2 9.00pm ) continuing ‘ The Richard Eyre Season ’ . |
| 23 | The pace of change differed from country to country : Poland , Romania and Bulgaria were effectively Soviet puppets by 1946 , but Hungary was only brought under Moscow 's control in mid-1947 and a coalition government survived in Czechoslovakia until February 1948 . |
| 24 | The designs differed from country to country , but the general trend was from geometrical shapes — circles , triangles , quatrefoils — in the earlier period , to curved flamboyant forms in the later years . |
| 25 | Many of our best supporters increased their majorities , and a new team of MPs committed to country sports has been elected . |
| 26 | Angela had always preferred old oak and mellow English fruitwoods to mahogany , and was attracted to country furniture because it was the sort of simple , practical furniture that ordinary people would have had in their farmhouses or cottages . |
| 27 | I am a country living junkie and my appetite for magazines devoted to country life is insatiable . |
| 28 | The analysis can be made more sophisticated , and sometimes more realistic , by introducing alternative assumptions relating to country size . |
| 29 | transborder data flows will not be permitted to countries which do not have an ‘ adequate level of protection ’ . |
| 30 | The tale soon ran round Devonport — of a dead body carried across country by three men and a woman . |