Example sentences of "france have [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Last of the big actors where France has missed the boat , at least for the present , is in robotics .
2 But none of them , may I say , has fully comprehended the reasons for the attitude France has adopted towards her neighbour .
3 France has grown faster ; maintained a different balance between nuclear and conventional forces ; followed a different arms export policy ; pursued autonomy from the US ; and spent less on defence in relation to GDP .
4 The cuisine of France has contributed so much to the culinary traditions of the world that to attempt to summarise all that is good about French cooking in the space of a page or two would be impossible .
5 France has decided to cut off aid to the Comoros Islands until the French mercenary , Mr Bob Denard , and his men , who seized control 10 days ago , leave the archipelago , government sources said yesterday .
6 France has decided to cut off aid to the Comoros Islands until the French mercenary , Mr Bob Denard , and his men , who seized control 10 days ago , leave the archipelago , government sources said yesterday .
7 France has decided to cut off aid to the Comoros Islands until the French mercenary , Mr Bob Denard , and his men , who seized control 10 days ago , leave the archipelago , government sources said yesterday .
8 Both countries have , however , moved sharply into recession at a time when economic growth in Japan , Germany and France has remained strong .
9 At least until recently , however , France has remained the principal external influence on postmodernist fiction in Britain .
10 IBM Corp in France has created a Unix systems division to try and fulfil its aim of becoming market leader by 1994 and , in particular , to focus on high-margin software and services .
11 The whole world has seen and heard our story , and it is in front of the whole world that reparation must take place , reflecting the scale of what was done to us , deploring the fact that a great country like France has accepted such a monstrous crime against us .
12 For all this , France has played its European cards well .
13 Ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin produced in France has given rise to such problems in the past , and complaints to the Commission have led to charges being imposed on several occasions , in order to protect alcohol producers in the other member states from unfair competition .
14 Jean desired this and as ‘ the king of France has given permission to make war in this land ’ , Pierre could serve in Aragon .
15 Already this year France has seen territory fall to the Brits with Tesco acquiring the 90-store Le Catteau supermarket chain in Northern France .
16 And the work that France has done to escape from the tyranny of oil has already begun to pay handsomely .
17 France has done well with reasonable earnings growth , improved productivity , rationalisation , better management , low inflation , low wage awards and strong export performance . ’
18 Fumaroli presents the alliance between culture and the State as a Faustian pact with the devil in which , in return for a steady stream of subventions and commissions , the artistic community of France has surrendered its spiritual independence .
19 France has declared its intent to maintain the truce , ’ the prince objected .
20 The number of dead dolphins washed ashore in Britain and France has increased sharply in the past five years , according to a study commissioned by Greenpeace .
21 INTERNATIONAL Celomer in France has landed its biggest ever paint contract — a massive 1,200,000 litres worth $5.6 million ( £3.7m ) .
22 Although it is neither in England nor Anglican , the ecumenical community at Taizé in France has become well known in recent years as a place of pilgrimage , especially by young people , and its music has a profound and growing influence in our churches .
23 France has said that it would support the side that restarted the war .
24 The total of loans and other financings to customers outside France has gone up from FFr28m in 1981 to FFr10.7m last year .
25 France has gone , and Belgium and Holland , and the German army is only a few miles away across the Channel .
26 France has gone some way towards the Canadian pattern .
27 France has indicated the terms upon which permission will be given , and these include an insistence that the evidence be taken exclusively within the premises of the foreign Embassy or Consulate .
28 If there was a common denominator it was that mystical influence that France has wielded over young Americans ever since the Marquis de Lafayette sailed to the aid of George Washington 's embattled colonists .
29 The Socialist government in France has achieved a change in the country 's R&D programme that has astounded observers .
30 France has achieved low inflation and steady growth but paid a high price in heavy unemployment .
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