Example sentences of "that france had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that France had already received the lion 's share of new European component investment over the previous five years was beside the point . |
| 2 | By now the French government had become quite brazen about the whole affair and the new French prime minister , Jacques Chirac , publicly stated that France had good reason to be proud of what Mafart and Prieur had achieved , a view that was evidently shared by most people in France . |
| 3 | If Marshal Piłsudski and Colonel Beck , the Polish leaders in Warsaw , were upset that France had not given them stronger backing over the Wilia crisis , then they were also relieved to find that Hitler was not prepared to go to war over the city — at least not yet . |
| 4 | The extravagant but spontaneous and absolutely marvellous celebrations which broke out in Lyon 's Palais des Sports the moment that Guy Forget completed his four sets victory over Pete Sampras to make sure that France had won the Davis Cup again for the first time in 59 years , will become part of sporting folklore . |
| 5 | Thus , although the US had been told by the French not only that there was no question of the ‘ reconquest ’ of Indo-China but that it was also doubtful that France had the military strength to accomplish it , they were also invited to believe , by the French , that Ho was in direct contact with Moscow and was receiving advice and instructions from the Soviets . |
| 6 | The result was that when Bollaert finally made his speech on 10 September it was obvious that , for all the rhetoric and for all the idealization of the French Union , if it was independence that France was offering , it was so heavily circumscribed as to make it obvious that France had , at most , transferred the Jacobin concept of ‘ the nation one and indivisible ’ to a French Union in which she would still be in a commanding position . |
| 7 | In July 1939 Nizan publicly proclaimed that France had been betrayed by fascist infiltrators and fascist collaborators . |
| 8 | A UN arbitration panel ruled on May 8 that France had committed " substantial violations " of a 1986 UN accord by repatriating two French agents convicted in New Zealand of sabotage and manslaughter . |
| 9 | In a speech to the Federal Assembly on Sept. 13 following talks with President Vaclav Havel , Mitterrand admitted that France had abandoned Czechoslovakia in its hour of need . |
| 10 | While the communiqué made clear that the alliance needed to confront " new security risks and challenges of a global nature " which threatened " common interests " , it was understood that France had expressed strong reservations about NATO extending its responsibilities beyond European frontiers . |
| 11 | June : A visit by French President Mitterrand led to the announcement that France had accepted Madagascar 's claim , supported by a UN vote in 1980 , to the islands of Les Glorieuses , Juan de Nova , Europa and Bassas de India , which had been under French control since 1882 . |
| 12 | French Prime Minister Michel Rocard signed in Wellington on April 29 an agreement setting up a bilateral " friendship fund " ; accepting blame , he said that France had recognized its past wrongdoing in the Rainbow Warrior affair . |
| 13 | A UN panel , finding in May 1990 that France had violated the 1986 agreement , proposed French payments into a " friendship fund " [ see p. 37459 ] . |
| 14 | Bérégovoy said later that France had " categorically refused " to agree to a proposed statement on international debt which would have attempted to " ring-fence " recent US-sponsored Polish and Egyptian debt forgiveness settlements [ see pp. 37978 ; 38107 ] . |
| 15 | In this connection , it was noted that France had not participated at the Military Committee meeting ( having remained outside the NATO joint military structure since 1966 ) , but had decided in March to join a working party created at the July 1990 NATO summit [ see p. 37599 ] to consider the strategic implications of the changed world situation . |
| 16 | It was reported on Nov. 11 that France had refused permission to members of the environmental group Greenpeace to conduct its own investigations on the Pacific nuclear testing site of Mururoa Atoll [ see p. 37886 ] . |
| 17 | Die Welt of Dec. 22 reported that France had raised the question of the payment of Second World War reparations to French nationals by Germany during the two-plus-four talks on German unification . |
| 18 | On July 10 President François Mitterrand issued an effective rebuttal , stressing that France had not changed its policy on immigration . |
| 19 | Reports on July 30 said that France had indicated its support for a partial easing of sanctions against Iraq after the UN sanctions committee failed on July 24 unanimously to agree to an Iraqi request to sell oil worth US$2,400 million to buy food and medicines . |
| 20 | Reports quoting French officials indicated that France had refused a last-minute Iranian demand for supplies of enriched uranium from the European consortium Eurodif . |
| 21 | Reports said that France had opposed the US-German declaration , claiming that it would duplicate the pan-European network of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) . |
| 22 | On Oct. 31 , NATO officials in Brussels disclosed that France had dropped its objections to a pan-European security " forum " . |
| 23 | French President François Mitterrand said on Feb. 7 that France had decided to moderate some of its nuclear arms programmes . |
| 24 | President Alpha Oumar Konare announced on Oct. 9 that France had decided to given financial support for the implementation of the national peace pact signed in April with Tuareg rebels [ see p. 38853 ] . |
| 25 | Reports in late October confirmed that France had arrested key members of a Paris-based Russian espionage ring which had gained access to highly classified information on nuclear experiments . |
| 26 | Unlike the sentimental francophile in Downing Street , the American president believed that France had ceased , for the foreseeable future , to be a great power . |
| 27 | Its liberal recommendations reflected de Gaulle 's own view that France had to satisfy African demands for development , not with a view to eventual decolonization , but on the contrary in order to tie the empire more securely to France in the postwar era . |
| 28 | As promised , his regime had delivered a degree of governmental stability that France had not enjoyed for many years . |