Example sentences of "[noun sg] over the country " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Russian M-17 aircraft will be used by the Chileans to monitor ozone loss over the country . |
| 2 | The evident squabble over the country 's soul is bound to offend those who stubbornly express the wish that religion and politics should be kept in discreet compartments . |
| 3 | The 30-year-old Mandale Harrier was making his first appearance over the country for a year , but he broke clear on the second of the three laps of a gruelling nine kilometre course and held off a late challenge by Newton Aycliffe 's Kevin Vose to win by an emphatic 13 seconds . |
| 4 | In the Communist Manifesto the claim is made quite explicitly that the family is to be abolished , education undertaken by the state and that there is to be ‘ a more equitable distribution of the population over the country ’ . |
| 5 | Whilst control over the country was transferred to the armed forces , the task of directly confronting recalcitrant elements a the population was largely entrusted to the ZOMO ( motorised militia ) ORMO ( militia reserve ) and élite security units . |
| 6 | Bakufu control over the country was never absolute , but rested on the administration 's ability to hold in check the ambitions of various provincial lords and play them off against each other . |
| 7 | No one group has established control over the country . |
| 8 | The British were determined to consolidate their own control over the country and in 1919 they imposed an Anglo-Persian treaty that virtually made Iran a British protectorate . |
| 9 | Observers noted that the government appeared to have adopted a dual " soft-hard " approach , attempting to maintain strict control over the country , including the political system , the media and the economy , while giving some ground to calls for change . |
| 10 | The army 's deployment in the south was part of the government 's attempts to reassert control over the country under the terms of the Arab League-sponsored Taif peace accords [ see pp. 36986 ; 37928 ] . |
| 11 | In the mainstream parties , incessant wrangling over the country 's political asylum law , implicitly ‘ the foreigner problem ’ , had conveniently paved the way for the ultra-right . |
| 12 | Again there was a problem of lawlessness even greater than the average over the country as a whole , exacerbated by the disorders which had followed the Glyn Dwr revolt . |
| 13 | The proposals represented the federal government 's most significant contribution to the debate over the country 's future since the collapse of the Meech Lake Accord in 1990 [ see pp. 37519-20 ] . |
| 14 | To begin with the government wants private operators to cast a spider 's web of cable-TV over the country , It is n't obvious that this is the best way to go about it . |
| 15 | About 1 in 10 has now followed this route over the country as a whole , and in the costly Southeast as many as 20 per cent may opt out of the NHS . |
| 16 | In a quiet period after the end of the Second World War in 1945 the Secretary of Commissions , responsible for the appointment of the lay magistracy over the country as a whole , found that days passed when no letter came into his office and no letter went out . |
| 17 | Government concern over the country 's economic performance had been increased by a current-account deficit of $646,000,000 in the first two months of 1990 , compared with a surplus of $888,000,000 in the same period a year earlier . |
| 18 | In particular , concern over the country 's widening trade deficit had been compounded by a sharp fall in foreign exchange reserves from a peak of US$1,007 million in February 1989 to around US$450,000,000 in March 1990 . |
| 19 | Fresh efforts to persuade Iraq to sell oil under the terms of UN Resolutions 706 and 712 [ see pp. 38406 ; 38452 ] , rejected by the government as an infringement of Iraqi sovereignty , were prompted by renewed concern over the country 's food and medical crisis [ see pp. 38452 ; 38548 ; 38597 ; 38696 ] . |
| 20 | For most of the first week of February high pressure was centred to the southeast or south of Scotland giving a generally cloudy , mild , southwesterly flow over the country , although the month started with a sharp frost in central and southern areas . |
| 21 | The terms under which children could be received into care were considerably widened , the methods of care were made more sensitive to the needs of children and the unified administrative structure ensured more uniform standards of care over the country . |
| 22 | A fitful northeast wind blew a dampness over the country , threatening rain that never quite fell . |