Example sentences of "germany have [be] " in BNC.
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1 | THROUGHOUT history , Germany has been an idea or , more accurately , a longing ( Sehnsucht ) rather than a reality as a unified state . |
2 | The contract to operate a mobile telephone service in West Germany has been awarded to the Mannesmann-led consortium , which includes Britain 's Cable & Wireless . |
3 | The contract to operate a mobile telephone service in West Germany has been awarded to the Mannesmann-led consortium , which includes Britain 's Cable & Wireless . |
4 | Public reaction to the film in Germany has been divided . |
5 | Though some big firms have boldly marched eastward , investment in the former East Germany has been slower than expected . |
6 | Even green western Germany has been put to shame by Japan 's and America 's commitment to lead-free petrol . |
7 | In the author 's constituency , for example , there is a company whose main competitor in Germany has been given switchgear free of charge by the local electricity board , and they have been given a twenty-year loan at no interest for generating plant . |
8 | It is already widely acknowledged that Germany has been able to augment her political weight , especially in European affairs , by pursuing her interests under the European banner . |
9 | The Black Forest in Germany has been the victim of forest decline , where symptoms such as yellowing leaves and needles and a thinning crown affect half the country 's trees . |
10 | A chapter on homebuilt organisations around the world is instructive , not least to learn that whilst amateur-built aircraft have had official blessing ( or at least the blind eye treatment ) in many Eastern Bloc countries for a decade or more , getting approval to fly a homebuilt in Italy and Germany has been a hard-won struggle against obstinate bureaucracy . |
11 | IN MOST ways , post-war Germany has been a model citizen . |
12 | Germany has been the jewel of Ingres ' crown , with 700 new licences expected to push revenues there up to DM35m from DM27.6m last time around . |
13 | But Germany has been peaceful because the East Prussians were under our control . |
14 | This conforms to the national situation , where Germany has been Scotland 's top market since 1988 . |
15 | One of the great incentives for development in Germany has been the ability to bring academic institutions into the real world of production to allow technology transfer , aided , abetted and assisted by the Landers and the local authorities . |
16 | To date , major public transport and traffic planning investment in West Germany has been geographically concentrated in the major conurbations and city regions , for example Rhine-Ruhr , Rhine-Main , Stuttgart , Hamburg and Munich . |
17 | West Germany has been put forward as having a culture that generates detachment . |
18 | In 1977 , at the time of the Bullock Committee on remoulding industrial relations , Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany had been brought in to instruct the Prime Minister , Callaghan , and Britain 's industrial leaders and trade unionists on the need to frame a new industrial climate as a basis for productive growth and a revived influence in the world . |
19 | After 1933 , Nazi propaganda , largely uncontested now that opponents within Germany had been silenced , could almost deify Hitler . |
20 | The many part-time farmers in Germany had been under the same economic pressures as their counterparts in the UK in recent years . |
21 | When the Weimar Republic was founded , the feeling that Germany had once again been suppressed by victorious external powers was very strong : the division of Prussia into East and West , the imposition of reparations ( the economic effects of which Keynes so famously and misguidedly attacked ) and the association of republicanism and parliamentarianism with defeat all fostered the belief that Germany had been stabbed in the back . |
22 | Unlike Britain and France , where profits were leaked abroad to colonial landholdings and estates , and where profits did not automatically become industrial investments , Germany had been forced to embark on a series of massive and successive re-investment programmes and re-equipment drives . |
23 | Saying that Germany as a whole has not yet bottomed out of recession and that recovery could come in 1994 at the earliest , the management board chairman of IBM Deutschland GmbH said that the government 's solidarity pact to help recovery in the depressed east of Germany had been over-valued — ‘ The pact received praise I do n't think it deserved ’ Hans-Olaf Henkel said . |
24 | The telecommunications business in Germany had been hit hard by the economic downturn there , pulling professional products and systems into a first quarter loss of $5m against a $72m profit a year ago . |
25 | Even if Germany had been willing to risk the assembly of major formations of ex-Soviet prisoners , Vlasov had no interest in these ethnically based units . |
26 | In response , President Jaruzelski of Poland declared that while he approved in principle the removal of Soviet forces from Poland , this should be deferred until agreement on a new European security system had been reached and specifically until the position of a united Germany had been clarified . |
27 | On Jan. 29 , however , Pöhl disclosed to a German financial newspaper , Handesblatt , that Germany had been isolated in its opposition to an accord on currency " target zones " at the G-7 meeting . |
28 | The US Army on Dec. 4 revealed that a US soldier serving in Germany had been sentenced to 34 years in prison after being convicted of spying for Iraq and Jordan during the Gulf War . |
29 | East and West Germany had been unable to agree on the issue of abortion before unification in 1990 . |
30 | But the Soviet Union in the 1950s was an even more formidable adversary than Hitler 's Germany had been . |