Example sentences of "to foreign " in BNC.
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| 1 | WE live at a time when reporters go to foreign countries where there is trouble and come back to write books in which they say that it was hard to make out what was going on . |
| 2 | As Ireland opened up to foreign investment under de Valera 's successor , Sean Lemass , another element in the value structure came to prominence , namely the obligation to achieve and retain full employment within the context of a modernized economy and a satisfactory level of housing , welfare , and medical care for all . |
| 3 | Jordan is fighting to regain the £400m annual income by appealing to foreign visitors to provide high quality accommodation . |
| 4 | INDIA is hoping to revitalise its failing economy by making the country more attractive to foreign investors — especially hoteliers . |
| 5 | In alternate weeks the auction is wholly devoted to domestic buyers or to foreign buyers . |
| 6 | But even the most mercenary of foreign firms grows a little queasier about trading with a regime which shoots dead its citizens , and then tries to score popularity points by offering convict labour to foreign factories ; and even the most unreconstructed optimist can see that the resurgence of hard-line Marxists in the Peking power structure is likely to militate against further free-market reforms . |
| 7 | The index , at 1,834.83 , is now 138 per cent up since the market was opened to foreign buyers on 9 August . |
| 8 | The Indonesian market has also opened up to foreign investment allowing up to 49 per cent of any listed company or new issue to be bought by foreigners compared with only 11 companies being open to foreign investment previously . |
| 9 | The Indonesian market has also opened up to foreign investment allowing up to 49 per cent of any listed company or new issue to be bought by foreigners compared with only 11 companies being open to foreign investment previously . |
| 10 | By pre-arrangement the debate was limited to foreign and defence matters , which Mr Ford considered his strong suit because he had been a congressman and a vice-president while his opponent , Jimmy Carter , had been a mere governor of Georgia and a peanut farmer . |
| 11 | The last two days ' scenes of disarray , including some fisticuffs , caused by the exclusion of far-right MEPs from the leadership of two delegations to foreign parliaments , are demeaning to the European Parliament , and bode ill . |
| 12 | Under the assembly 's system of apportioning positions on committees and on the 26 standing delegations to foreign parliaments , mathematical logic made it inevitable that far-right members would receive a few sensitive posts . |
| 13 | The US telecommunications industry , which became subject to foreign competition on the dismantling of the Bell System , has reacted by attempting to enter foreign markets , especially those of Europe and the Far East . |
| 14 | to gain access to foreign ‘ know-how ’ and methods ; |
| 15 | In spite of moves by the South Korean government to open up its long-and-heavily protected domestic economy to foreign imports , efforts by many multinational companies to break into South Korean markets have run into trouble . |
| 16 | the court may be ill-disposed to foreign companies ; |
| 17 | Exchange controls Controls on the outflow of foreign exchange , notably on the payment of dividends or fees to foreign companies , or the transfer price payments for goods from another part of the group in another country , or the transfer to the foreign holding company of proceeds from the sale of entire subsidiaries . |
| 18 | With the exception of Radio Luxembourg 's popular entertainment programmes , few British people ever listened to foreign broadcasts . |
| 19 | By early 1989 the Prime Minister was at odds with several colleagues , not only Nigel Lawson with whom she quarrelled incessantly , but also with Sir Geoffrey Howe whose sympathy for European monetary union and generally benign approach to foreign affairs came increasingly to jar with her . |
| 20 | The USA was in the opposite camp , fighting for complete free enterprise for airlines ( except in situations in which US airlines were subject to foreign discrimination ) and open access to all countries . |
| 21 | In the 1980s payments of this kind , and for related royalties and patents , have come to equal about 40 per cent of the income in dividends which accrues to foreign investors and they are usually given priority in payment over dividends . |
| 22 | In relation to the outside world they imply a wariness to foreign investors , and an ambivalence to foreign aid in so far as investors and aid donors may undermine the autonomy of the government . |
| 23 | In relation to the outside world they imply a wariness to foreign investors , and an ambivalence to foreign aid in so far as investors and aid donors may undermine the autonomy of the government . |
| 24 | Since the American slump that created a space for Henry VIII and some of Korda 's succeeding films quickly passed , subsequent pictures had to be not just good , but exceptional , if they were to break through the resistance or American audiences to foreign films . |
| 25 | Moreover to advocate exposing French tradition to foreign literatures , citing Whitman , Williams , and Pound , as seminal influences , to translate them in addition to David Jones or Basil Bunting , and to deny any allegiance to the French poetic mainstream is received in some circles with incomprehension . |
| 26 | As to foreign trade in Eastern Europe , two thirds of it is within the Comecon area , and the absolute levels are low . |
| 27 | The exact proportion sold to foreign buyers depends on demand for the UK retail market , financial advisers said yesterday . |
| 28 | The Communist Party newspaper , Rabotnichesko Delo , revealed that unknown sums of convertible currency had been paid to foreign publishers to produce Mr Zhivkov 's books . |
| 29 | No one who went to foreign language movies in the late Sixties will easily forget the extraordinary films that seemed to pour out of the state-owned studios of Czechoslavakia . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , many of the largest US purse-seiners had been re-flagged or sold to foreign investors . |