Example sentences of "the [adj] countries " in BNC.
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| 1 | I if the producing countries are going to get more for their products , we 're going to have to take less . |
| 2 | Traffic 's director Jorgen Thomsen draws attention to the responsibility of the tropical timber consuming countries , along with the International Tropical Timber Organisation ( ITTO ) , to find effective solutions rather than leaving the responsibility to the producing countries . |
| 3 | All the European countries in the chart except Britain now have fatter official reserves than in 1988 . |
| 4 | If he wants to import vehicles or components from Taiwan or Singapore or Hong Kong into Europe , he 'll go ahead and do it , regardless of the economic consequences for the European countries concerned . |
| 5 | It was possible to group the farm types surveyed in Britain to match the farming of the parts of the European countries visited . |
| 6 | The European countries also appreciated that the need for the whole world recovery was important , and they became more willing to contribute to the economic development of underdeveloped countries . |
| 7 | These ‘ pull ’ factors operated with particular force in the post-Second World War period as many of the European countries began to reconstruct and expand their economies at a rapid rate and found themselves suffering acute labour shortages which could only be relieved by the employment of foreign workers . |
| 8 | The British participants were particularly interested in the brand of signs which seem to be generally understood by the deaf of most of the European countries . |
| 9 | In recent days there 's been increasing evidence that the European countries , including Britain , are extremely disturbed about this . |
| 10 | And , in addition , we 're suppliers to other countries as well particularly the European countries . |
| 11 | It can be observed , however , that minimum late fetal mortality falls more frequently in the 20–24 years age group in the European countries than in countries of other continents where the nadir more often occurs at ages 25–29 . |
| 12 | The UK profession has lobbied the DTI , Parliament , the European Commission , the European Parliament , and national centres of influence by giving seminars in many of the European countries . |
| 13 | In addition to the International Network , MAS has designated people responsible for initial service delivery in most of the European countries . |
| 14 | West Germany was also believed to have cited the case of US support for a ruling in July 1989 [ see p. 37021 ] which lifted controls on the export to eastern Europe of 16-bit microcomputers , a product where the USA was more competitive than the European countries . |
| 15 | Most importantly , this was almost entirely the result of immigration , first from the European countries and , following the First World War , from southern USA . |
| 16 | The ‘ push ’ took the form of organised , trade unionised , labour forces in the European countries . |
| 17 | were writing , however , there has emerged an argument that capital is actually increasingly finding itself drawn back to the European countries . |
| 18 | It is considered essential for employers and students to have access to easily understood information about the types of qualifications offered by the many institutions across the spectrum of the European countries . |
| 19 | But what the change does do is to reflect , rather more accurately than the previous arrangements , the various sizes of the electorates in the European countries and that is the logic and the sense behind it . |
| 20 | Announcing that special committees had been set up to make recommendations to the next meeting in Oman in April , Mr Baghli added : ‘ We see that the American administration is serious in imposing the tax and the European countries are uniting their ranks to impose this tax to threaten our basic source of living . ’ |
| 21 | Now , it 's not clear to me at the moment that that is going to be the direction , say , of the Roman Catholic Church , because we seem to have a much more conservative Pope and there are conservative movements growing up in all the churches , you 've only got to look at Reagan 's America and the way you find counterparts to that kind of religious conservatism in all the European countries . |
| 22 | The indigenous population , comprising Christian Armenians and Islamic tribesmen of mainly Central Asian , Turkish and Persian origin , were alternately subjected to periods of persecution and forced conversion ( or extermination ) , depending on whether Christian Russia or one of the Islamic countries was in control ; this culminated in the widespread slaughter and deportation of the Armenians by the Turks during the First World War . |
| 23 | In February 1990 WHO reported the first signs of HIV infection in eastern Europe and the Islamic countries of North Africa and the Middle East , regions which until recently were thought to be relatively untouched by the epidemic . |
| 24 | A report in Nezavisimaya gazeta of April 21 noted that Dudayev appeared to be hoping for support and recognition from the Islamic countries , rather than from the West , which recently had been heavily criticized in his speeches . |
| 25 | A film festival in one of the poorest countries in the world , Burkina Faso , celebrating the development of authentic , indigenous African cinema . |
| 26 | Because of the political impasse over the past ten years Cambodia , one of the poorest countries in the world , has received no UN development aid , nor any bilateral or multilateral development aid from the UK . |
| 27 | Eighty per cent of our bilateral aid goes to the poorest countries . |
| 28 | We will press creditor countries to accept the Prime Minister 's proposal — the ‘ Trinidad Terms ’ — for a two-thirds reduction in the official debt of the poorest countries . |
| 29 | Significant increases in energy usage — of some 140% — will occur in Africa and South Asia , the areas where the poorest countries are to be found . |
| 30 | For your family 's sake you should make one , and during November you can also help people in the poorest countries of the world . |