Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] this country " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been easy for me just to put off the difficult decisions we need to take , but I must do what is right for this country . |
| 2 | It is a choice that is fully there for us to make at the same time and in the same fashion as other countries , except that we have the additional option of deciding that it would not be right for this country . |
| 3 | This country has done very well in the negotiations and we have got an agreement that is right for this country . |
| 4 | They are wrong for this country 's future and contrary to this party 's belief in decentralised wage bargaining . |
| 5 | Six years ago I had my own head examined by the most distinguished of this country 's living phrenologists and was provided with a six-page report of quite startling accuracy . |
| 6 | ’ we have design criteria which are completely different from this country . |
| 7 | Indeed , even today , the social history of ordinary ageing in this country has barely started . |
| 8 | What prompted the submission of thi the motion is the growing feeling of disaffection and desertion among the unemployed , particularly the union unemployed in this country , who many never have had a job . |
| 9 | At first , I suspect , we got Havel wrong in this country : on the strength of an early play like The Memorandum ( 1965 ) we pigeonholed him as an Absurdist along with Beckett and Ionesco . |
| 10 | This is certain to be opposed vigorously by freight transport organisations which argue that road taxes are already high in this country . |
| 11 | Who can be free in this country after the Treason Trials which set behind bars and left to rot … ’ |
| 12 | We 're all suppoosed to be free in this country |
| 13 | In this respect , we are much more generous in this country . |
| 14 | All coroners hold inquests on people who died aboard , if their deaths would have been inquestable in this country . |
| 15 | ‘ I think it 's like foreign lagers becoming quite popular in this country , English beers have a growing reputation abroad , ’ he added.Although the Italians liked the taste of Tolly 's 1048 Cantab beer , they were not so impressed with the brewery 's taste in labels.The controversial naked lady , the Bacchante , on the label of Cantab beer , had already been described by Cambridge students as ‘ sexist ’ and the Italians felt it was ‘ not very English ’ . |
| 16 | That , I think , is not , and would never be , acceptable in this country . |
| 17 | Sadly , the methods used in food processing to boost flavour and enhance colour and texture are all too often detrimental to the nutritional value of the product : natural vitamins , minerals and fibre may be removed , and salt , sugar and cheap fats are introduced , all of which contribute to the already high levels of heart disease prevalent in this country . |
| 18 | It seems to be a feature almost peculiar to this country , and nothing could be healthier for scholarship . |
| 19 | That was not acceptable to this country . |
| 20 | And this takes time , it takes time to change national habits , but I think it would be very serious for this country if erm in fact those people who want an advanced English language education in the Third World erm turned much more to the United States and , and , and Canada , which seems to be the erm trend , than they do at present . |
| 21 | They need clothes for the prisoners as well as paper , pens , paint , in fact anything that we might find to be surplus in this country they could use , ’ he said . |
| 22 | In North America , in areas where conditions are similar to this country , a survey showed that one per cent of houses were affected by damp , but rot was not found in any of these , and in the few years of experience here none of the faults so far reported are due to this cause . |
| 23 | It was crucial to this country 's status as an advanced nation . |
| 24 | The Farm represent everything utterly obnoxious about this country , probably not their fault as they never had a decent education , but glorifying football thuggery , provincial mediocrity and small-minded plebbiness only encourages the pettiness of our current society . |
| 25 | This case arises from an undercover police operation said to be unique in this country . |
| 26 | Oh , that 's a difficult one to answer , is n't it ? erm I think that we 're unique in this country , possibly , especially Sussex and one or two other places , in having erm a mixture of artificial intelligence , psychology , erm microelectronics . |
| 27 | It is not , however , as clear-cut in this country as it is on the continent . |
| 28 | His directorship , by any measure , is one of the most artistically remarkable in this country , and , one ventures , the world . |
| 29 | We are lucky in this country that we have some of the better zoos , and indeed host what is widely recognised as the best , Jersey . |
| 30 | The severe drought , unprecedented in this country , in Southern Africa has created the need for a variety of logistics and distribution resources . |