Example sentences of "a country [conj] has " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a country that has grown rich doing business , service in restaurants and cafes can be astonishingly slow , and catching the waiter 's eye is about as easy as catching sunstroke on a North Sea beach . |
| 2 | A country that has given us countless cheeses , truffles , classic dishes such as moules marinières and cassoulet , champagne and , for many years , some of the world 's finest wines , requires several tomes to do it justice . |
| 3 | The Iraqi missile attacks have provoked a wave of rare sympathy for a country that has been cast as the regional baddy . |
| 4 | But the commitment of governments was to the gold standard and free trade and , in 1922 , Baldwin reflected that , ‘ a free trade country , such as we are still , finds it very difficult to argue with a country that has a tariff weapon in its hand . ’ |
| 5 | We try to give a picture of Israel as a democracy , a country that has strengths and weaknesses , that has reasons for being distrustful . ’ |
| 6 | In a country that has pushed the technology to the limit , the French confidence that nuclear power is safe and unproblematic was overwhelming and saddening . |
| 7 | Consider a country that has no commercial or other relations with either of two warring parties . |
| 8 | Thus , the protagonists ' encounter with a postman who is too drunk to articulate properly or to deliver his letters , which he keeps dropping in the street , is one of a series of symbolic episodes expressing the generalized breakdown of communication in a country that has lost all sense of social cohesion . |
| 9 | A country that has a large supply of easily-developed resources ( land , water and minerals ) will find growth easier than one that has fewer and less accessible resources . |
| 10 | In a country that has known hosepipe bans in autumn even as gardens disappear under floodwater , it is reasonable to wonder how much good the downpour of the past 48 hours has achieved . |
| 11 | There 's also Bob 's ‘ Songs Of Freedom ’ , a force worldwide , but out of fashion in Jamaica , a country that has moved on to the more bodily delights of raggamuffin . |
| 12 | FOR a country that has been run by soldiers for nearly a decade , Nigeria shows little enthusiasm for the elections due on June 12th . |
| 13 | PICTURE a country that has two main political parties , both led by 74-year-olds . |
| 14 | And Britain is once again a country that has found its pride , regained a high reputation in the world and is playing a leading role on the international stage — both in Europe and beyond . |
| 15 | ‘ Britain is once again a country that has found its pride , regained a high reputation in the world and is playing a leading role on the international stage — both in Europe and beyond . ’ |
| 16 | With its broad and open frontiers , Russia is a country that has been invaded and occupied many times by outside powers . |
| 17 | A country that has a balance of payments surplus may receive payment from the debtor 's foreign exchange reserves , receive the balance in gold , leave the money in the debtor country and use it to purchase goods and services in the future , or lend the debtor country the money to pay off the debt and receive interest on the loan in the meantime . |
| 18 | In the same way , a country that has a deficit on its balance of payments will either have to run down its foreign exchange reserves , pay over gold , borrow the money to pay off the debt from other countries or hold money , in terms of credit , that the creditor country can use to purchase goods and services in the future . |
| 19 | a country that has less developed countries |