Example sentences of "france have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But though the excitement in France has been echoed in the London market , there remains heavy scepticism about the financial merits of the Eurodisney share offer . |
| 2 | France has been expecting heavy snow all week to 1200m … and still waits . |
| 3 | His involvement in peace-feelers after the German invasion of France has been portrayed as verging on treason . |
| 4 | But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years . |
| 5 | Dealers believe France has been forced to spend three-quarters of its foreign currency reserves in the past 24 hours . |
| 6 | The impressive energy with which France has been building and renovating museums as well as adding to their collections since 1981 — the year François Mitterrand became President and Jack Lang his Minister of Culture — actually began in the last years of the previous Centre Right administration . |
| 7 | Behind the decline in asylum applications to France has been an effort by the French government to clear the backlog . |
| 8 | With Germany , France has been the prime mover behind closer European integration . |
| 9 | The national monopoly has disappeared and auctioning in France has been opened up to other Europeans , but auctioneers will remain officers appointed by the Minister of Justice . |
| 10 | A man at the centre of a stay-behind group in France has been killed in a Brittany sailing resort . |
| 11 | Economic development in France has been the subject of a lively debate over the past few years . |
| 12 | France has been suffering from a series of dry winters , since that of 1988-89 . |
| 13 | France has been paying US$20 million a year to have nuclear waste reprocessed in Russia , reportedly at the Tomsk plant . |
| 14 | France has been identified as employing a rationalist approach . |
| 15 | Until now France has been the principal export outlet . |
| 16 | The idea of marriage into the royal house of France had been openly raised at least as early as September 1543 , and presumably had been in the mind of Mary of Guise long before that . |
| 17 | France had been hoping for a Kinnock victory , to provide a second socialist power in one of the leading EC countries to act as an ally for President Mitterrand at summit talks . |
| 18 | For several years France had been carrying out nuclear weapons tests on the remote Pacific island of Moruroa in the Pacific . |
| 19 | In Berlin , Bismarck pretended to believe that the internal instability affecting France presented a danger to the peace of Europe , remarking to the British Ambassador that : ‘ If the present Constitutional Government in France had been three years instead of three months in existence , there would be some chance for its duration and the maintenance of peace . ’ |
| 20 | France had been the major supporter of Euratom ; as the only one of the Six already possessing a nuclear programme , it obviously hoped to benefit most from the joint funding of the Community and to establish a domination of the nascent industry . |
| 21 | France and Belgium were the two lesser industrial powers and although France had been a big eighteenth-century producer of coal , her resources were unable to provide her with the fuel she needed for industry on the German scale . |
| 22 | Two hundred thousand veterans had been recalled to the Eagles , the half-pay officers had been restored to their battalions , and the arsenals of France had been filled . |
| 23 | One of the attractions for Englishmen in the long wars with France had been the prospects of conquering and ruling new territories . |
| 24 | From 1066 to 1558 France had been the country that England would fight if she was going to fight anyone , but for over a hundred years that role of the perpetual enemy had been taken by Spain or — in the minds of a few people — by the Netherlands . |
| 25 | War in France had not hitherto been popular : in the thirteenth century it had been said that the English knights ‘ did not give a bean for all of France ’ , and resistance to service in France had been an important element in the political crisis of 1297 . |
| 26 | Yet it may be argued that part of the process was a search for the open sea which France had been denied until the early years of the thirteenth century , and that the desire to win control of the peripheral duchies of Aquitaine , Brittany and Normandy was but an aspect of a wider policy which included an ambition to have access to , and control of , the ports on the Atlantic , Mediterranean and Channel coasts for military as well as for commercial reasons . |
| 27 | France had been the western European nation most opposed to American concepts of data free flow . |
| 28 | ( Although , as the free export of arms to France had been permitted , the restrictions were more nominal than real . ) |
| 29 | In July 1939 Nizan publicly proclaimed that France had been betrayed by fascist infiltrators and fascist collaborators . |
| 30 | The flight from London to the Nice-Côte d'Azur airport in the south of France had been long-winded and tiring , with delays at either end . |