Example sentences of "china [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The announcement was seen as a move to reassure China about the colony 's finances on the eve of further talks in Hong Kong on the new airport project by the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group 's Airport Committee . |
| 2 | He began developing his own contacts with the Chinese government , and advocating the view that Hong Kong should learn to accept China as a ‘ protector and friend ’ with whom a deepening relationship was both desirable and necessary . |
| 3 | Even now , and though the events of June triggered a brief period of reappraisal , the British still seem besotted by their vision of China as a billion-strong market for their goods and services — and either unaware , or unimpressed , that their exports to Hong Kong itself are currently worth three times as much as those to its northern neighbour . |
| 4 | By April 30th Carla Hills , the American trade boss , must decide whether to cite China as an ‘ unfair ’ trader . |
| 5 | In autumn 1971 , I went to China as a member of a delegation from the Scottish Council for Development and Industry . |
| 6 | Tournebise and Macdonald describe university life in China as a ‘ profound deception ’ ( op. cit : 46 ) . |
| 7 | His presence there for over a year was a useful lever for Russia , which therefore replaced China as a contender for dominant influence in the peninsula . |
| 8 | Hostility towards Japan , s economic policies in China and the policies of Japanese firms operating there , as well as a wider opposition to Japanese attitudes towards China as a whole , led to a succession of anti Japanese demonstrations and boycotts of Japanese products throughout the 1920s . |
| 9 | During the 1970s there was a China boom in Japan which seemed to evoke the old image of China as a source of civilization and ideas . |
| 10 | Yes well I I , I mean you erm you posed the question whether it was a good or bad thing , this change erm I can only the results of the change and what would have happened if the change had not taken place or try to er see what the change , it would seem to me that the alternative er would have been a continuance of er possibly erm a kind of Kuomintang erm type of policy which encouraged erm other nationalities to develop China as beginning to happen now . |
| 11 | By 1961 the emergence of newly-independent states in Africa and Asia , the development of China as a powerful , independent Communist state and America 's economic decline relative to Western Europe and Japan , all pointed to the emergence of a more sophisticated ‘ multi-polar ’ world . |
| 12 | Taking an unmarked structure such as The book received a great deal of publicity in China as a starting point , we can suggest a number of possible thematic structures in English , starting with the least marked and ending with the most marked . |
| 13 | LUCRETIA STEWART ( Vietnam , page 180 ) was born in Singapore and lived in China as a child . |
| 14 | But Hsu was so anxious that " West Town " should typify China as a whole that the Min Chia peculiarities of the local culture are hardly ever mentioned . |
| 15 | Liddell later returned to China as a teacher and missionary where he was interned by the Japanese at a camp in Weifang . |
| 16 | Also in February US President George Bush paid a 40-hour visit to China as an indication of continuing close relations [ see p. 36455 ] . |
| 17 | Li Peng , the Chinese Premier , began a nine-day tour of three south-east Asian countries on Aug. 6 , designed to improve relations with non-communist countries in the region and to ease fears of China as a security threat . |
| 18 | ( France had announced on June 3 that it would sign the NPT — see p. 38314 — leaving China as the only permanent member of the UN Security Council not bound by the treaty ) . |
| 19 | The government reviewed its relations with Taiwan , but decided to maintain its current policy of recognizing only the People 's Republic of China as the sole legitimate government of China , acknowledging China 's claim that Taiwan constituted a province of the mainland . |
| 20 | One article , carried on the front page of the official party paper Renmin Ribao on Feb. 24 , gave the first ever positive appraisal of capitalism and called for developing a capitalist economy within China as a " useful supplement " to the socialist economy . |
| 21 | Patten paid his first visit to China as Governor on Oct. 20-23 . |
| 22 | This step was a significant move in its own right , since de Gaulle saw China as one of the emerging giants of the new multipolar system . |
| 23 | India 's official census has revealed that its population can be expected to increase by 25 per cent by the year 2011 , surpassing China as the world 's most densely populated country . |
| 24 | Erm but maybe this , this issue is , is , could be important in the sense that you , you 've got tt er if you take China as a whole you 've probably got well in excess of a million villages erm you 've probably got a denser population in the south than the north so you 've got more than half a million villages in the south |
| 25 | Wh when you 're saying to run the economy , do you mean the rural economy or the economy , you know , China as a whole ? |
| 26 | So in a very broad sense agriculture is going to have to con contribute to China 's , China as a whole 's economic development |
| 27 | While Dexel trades with most of the Far East countries , using a network of agents , it has targeted China as a major growth area . |
| 28 | The Party now needed to come up with a longer term programme of how to pave the way towards socialism in China as a whole , paying particular attention to the different economic situation in the south which could indeed significantly influence their future strategy . |
| 29 | The death penalty is routinely used in China for serious economic crimes which involve no personal violence . |
| 30 | The words speak a philosophy known and believed in China for many centuries . |