Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] this country " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now when this is all over , and Saddam has got to be stopped , forcibly stopped , when this is over , I believe that there 's got to be no reneging as this country has constantly done with the Arabs ; there has got to be a Middle East conference , and the Israelis said ‘ yes , we agree to your State , but return to your original frontiers or you will get the same treatment as Saddam has got . ’ |
| 2 | Does the Minister accept that the virtual destruction of the British Merchant Navy in the past 12 years has been one of the most severe crimes committed against this country by the present Government ? |
| 3 | The market is being distorted : if General Electric wants to come into this country , it gives a price concession which damages one of this country 's crucial companies . |
| 4 | 1745 " The Gentlemen befrementd. taking to Consideration That there are a great deal thefts Committed in this Country Doe to prevent & Discover the samen come to the following Resolutions , That The Chamber lain of Kildaltan & some of the princl . |
| 5 | 1745 " The Gentlemen befrementd. taking to Consideration That there are a great deal thefts Committed in this Country Doe to prevent & Discover the samen come to the following Resolutions , That The Chamber lain of Kildaltan & some of the princl . |
| 6 | We regard murders committed in this country by terrorists as deserving a minimum of 20 years ' imprisonment for those people . |
| 7 | The thousands of children who are born every year , we do n't even know in this country how many there are , because the figures the ca n't be kept , er er and these tend to be children erm born of er , anonymous donors and and I think that as a society we are wreaking such problems for the future , we 're creating secrets for families , and I would really like to hear from my fellow women here about that . |
| 8 | At present , interest earned in this country by overseas nationals is subject to tax but , if a tax haven state was created in Britain , this liability would disappear and make such deposits more attractive . |
| 9 | Non-existent until about I should n't think there was an a bus did come to the bottom of Road , I ca n't remember what was , it must have been about nineteen twenty I suppose something like that , it used to go to the bottom of Road and turn round there , but I never er my mother always used to say you 'd ruin the trade , the trade down well I do n't believe it did really er now I think the lack of transport now you 've hit something there , lack of transport there encouraged people to shop in Green rather to go down the town cos you could get anything off Green you know , you just think you 'd ju you , you smiled about the er butcher 's shops , the grocer 's shops , the cake shops , you could get the gents , you could get anything on Green the ironmonger shop , you need n't go anywhere else but , when they started transport er yes I think the buses had quite a bit gradually cos things that , you do n't think get things happening in this country overnight I mean , they grow on you do n't they ? |
| 10 | That means doctors who qualify from Czech Univeristies will only be allowed by the General Medical Council to work in this country under the supervision of a fully registered colleague . |
| 11 | There 's a good selection of Fair Isle sweaters with either long or short sleeves and lacy jumpers — plenty to supplement any wardrobe , whether holidaying in this country or abroad . |
| 12 | At the same time , d the Tories are on their knees , some people , as I said earlier , I think it 's just as relevant in this debate , seem to have lost their way and when you took , look at what they 're proposing in terms of say , the er the fifty percent , the , the er M Ps , fifty percent of the votes for er the Parliamentary leader which of course is very consistent with , right , fifty percent of the vote , you take that along with proportional representation and what I believe you 're seeing is the number of people who have given up the ghost and are preparing to restructure the Party around coalition politics , and that 's where they 're heading , and they 're heading completely in the wrong direction because we 're more in tune with what 's going on in this country , the po opinion polls are saying fifty nine percent of the people actually I think , believe that er the Labour government is possible and will be voting for a Labour government , the alternative road is to oblivion and it 's not about modernizing , the people who 're proposing this coalition politics are n't modernizers , they 're Victorian politics , that 's what they 're about , they 're about taking us back , back before we created the Party , before we learnt the lesson that we needed to represent ourselves politically , they 're going back to , let's skil see what we get out of the Liberals , the free trade Liberals , in the nineteenth century , that 's where they 're going back , that 's not about modernization , real modernization is about making sure that the Labour Party speaks for the working people up and down this country and that 's our contribution to make to that Party and therefore we should have a role in decision making and influencing the Party that enables us as an organization to express that feeling , and that understanding of what people actually want in this country , and that 's why we 're supporting the C E C proposals . |
| 13 | I mean , their loan periods are somewhere about twenty five years whereby you probably realise in this country if a young er person wants to start a firm and he 's go to the bank they 're not gon na give him much scope at all ! |
| 14 | The case has echoes of the row that erupted in this country over The Krays movie . |
| 15 | As narrow gauge steam locomotives have proved impossible to find in this country , contact has been made with the authorities in Poland where extensive closures of their systems in recent times will provide examples . |
| 16 | An array of other munitions and allied manufactures included 600,000 copper shell bands , 4in to 12in diameter , 17,500 ammunition boxes , 1,460 sets of equipment to enable various types of aircraft tow targets , 400 pole wagons for hauling trees felled in this country , 9 KVA Rotors and 5 K.W Alternators and Stators , ( over 1,000 ) , thousands of Raft Connectors and mine detectors , and Catamarans for the navy — the list seems endless . |
| 17 | ‘ The young man lives in this country , and the young woman is English . |
| 18 | Is n't this going to make it difficult now , I mean with jobs the way they are , does this mean tat people can come in from erm E C countries and er there is no reason why they should n't be given a job erm against somebody who lives in this country ? |
| 19 | To his first speech to Parliament , on 18 November 1760 , the king added in his own hand the robust declaration : ‘ Born and educated in this country , I glory in the name of Britain . ’ |
| 20 | What is for sure , we need to be more active than we have been in this area if tennis is to flourish in this country . |
| 21 | Does he accept that not only that youth 's family but many other people have a total lack of comprehension as to how someone could be hanged in this country when he was in police custody when the gun was fired and the unfortunate police officer was killed by another person ? |
| 22 | " Facilities to train in this country are often represented as a programme of aid to developing countries . |
| 23 | ‘ Makes no difference in this case Lofty , ’ interrupted Yanto , quietly trying to defuse the situation ; a sturgeon is a royal fish , and all of 'em caught in this country must be offered to the King , that 's the law . ’ |
| 24 | Armin Jordan is still somewhat under-rated in this country , yet has always struck me as one of the most intuitively musical conductors around . |
| 25 | Before the right hon. Gentleman goes into overdrive , perhaps he will confirm that , in the past three months , industrial production has fallen faster in Germany , faster in France , faster in the United States and faster in Japan than it has in this country ; and that , if we take the last year as a whole , industrial production fell more in Japan , and more in Germany , than in the United Kingdom . |
| 26 | I do n't know if you 're alluding to the fact that pension rights might might soon be eroded in this country . |
| 27 | After all , law and order has collapsed in this country . |
| 28 | ‘ The weakness in our economy has reached dangerous levels when key companies like Fords , Rolls-Royce and British Aerospace , whose success really matters to this country , are shedding skilled workers in their thousands . ’ |
| 29 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that while Jean-Marie Le Pen is legally entitled to come to this country , his obnoxious views on racism , immigration and nationality mean that he is simply not welcome in this country ? |
| 30 | We shall forward the work for the 1,000 secondees to come to this country as speedily as we can . |