Example sentences of "country [conj] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every man in it had fought before , it was freshly equipped , and it sought vengeance against the countries that had humbled France in 1814 . |
| 2 | Under its terms , exchange of information and materials was permitted solely to those countries that had made ‘ substantial progress ’ in the development of nuclear weapons . |
| 3 | If Africans had plenty of examples of countries that had gone through painful structural adjustments and emerged transformed , it might be easier for governments to persuade citizens that the pain was worthwhile . |
| 4 | Throughout these crucial years of twentieth-century growth , the many colonial countries that had provided so many natural and human resources for the Western machine began to demand an independence of their own , fired by the very principles of democracy that had sprung out of the Enlightenment and inspired the French and American revolutions . |
| 5 | A survey was conducted in five countries which were critical cases for the hypothesis : Britain and the United States of America as countries which had the most successful democratic states , Germany and Italy as countries that had experienced fascist regimes within twenty years , and Mexico as a less well-developed country struggling to establish its democratic process ( Almond and Verba 1963 ) . |
| 6 | This is not entirely unconnected to another feature of the economies of many Third World countries that has become of great salience in recent years , namely their foreign debt and the eff–ct that servicing that debt , particularly in times of rising and unpredictable interest rates , has on economic and social planning . |
| 7 | What is the Government 's view within the European family on those countries that have accepted and signed the treaty of Rome and the Helsinki agreement ? |
| 8 | Taiwan 's experience is typical of poor countries that have become rich and industrialised in a relatively short time . |
| 9 | Countries that have developed direct reduction plants include Brazil , Saudi Arabia , Nigeria , Indonesia and New Zealand . |
| 10 | Countries that have developed a taste for gas-guzzling machinery are certain to find it difficult to turn back to animal power . |
| 11 | Britons tend to retain trust in the inhabitants of countries in which Britain has had or retains colonial interests ; countries that share a common language , values , and ( in some cases ) ancestry ; and countries that have stood together in times of crisis . |
| 12 | And countries that have experimented with free multi-party elections , such as Zambia , Benin and Madagascar , have received their due reward . |
| 13 | Two countries that have sent fighting men to the Gulf — Pakistan ( with 10,000 soldiers in Saudi Arabia ) and Bangladesh — are twisting and turning over their decision , mainly because it is so unpopular . |
| 14 | From the end of the century it will be illegal to manufacture CFCs and halons ( except for essential firefighting uses ) in countries that have signed the protocol ( 2010 in the case of developing countries ) . |
| 15 | At the largest scale , the ‘ bubble ’ approach exists in the form of caps or ceilings on national emissions of sulphur dioxide , oxides of nitrogen and carbon dioxide for countries that have signed the relevant protocols put forward by the United Nations . |
| 16 | Electronics companies are major users of industrial CFCs and Taiwan-made electronics products will be barred from countries that have signed the protocol . |
| 17 | The number of countries that have produced full comprehensive environmental strategies like our own can be numbered on the fingers of one hand . |
| 18 | In the least advanced countries , such differences may be only moderate , but in developing countries that have experienced an important degree of modernization , there may be considerable variation . |
| 19 | Figure E9.1 gives the age-sex profiles for two countries that have experienced a good deal of immigration . |
| 20 | Surveys of T. canis prevalence in dogs have been carried out in most countries and have shown a wide range of infection rates , from 5% to over 80% . |
| 21 | The Shoe People has since been televised in 52 countries and has spawned a multi-million pound empire . |
| 22 | Britain 's participation rate is lower than in equivalent countries but has grown dramatically during 1989-91 . |
| 23 | He betrayed no feelings to anyone in the country that had given him asylum . |
| 24 | The mood in the country that had suffered least from the war , was defiant , violent , haunted . |
| 25 | In France , the one country that had developed a strong tradition of vernacular opera with its own different aesthetic , it needed only a visit of an Italian company playing a repertoire of opere buffe to spark off one of the most celebrated of musical civil wars , the querelle des bouffons , a war which was renewed a quarter of a century later when the pro-Italian faction set up Piccinni in rivalry with the now gallicized Gluck . |
| 26 | It was the realisation that Roziac lay in the heart of Camisard country that had revived Melissa 's idea for a novel set in the region . |
| 27 | Does the Secretary of State imagine that such figures could have been given to any other Parliament in the European Community — especially in a country that had enjoyed a North sea oil bonanza over the years ? |
| 28 | For a country that 's got a balance of payments problem , that seems a bit stupid . ’ |
| 29 | The country that has demonstrated the greatest upward mobility through entrepreneurial channels is Argentina , which was one of the first to industrialise and has had probably the greatest influx of immigrants . |
| 30 | Thus , the protagonists ' encounter with a postman who is too drunk to articulate properly or to deliver his letters , which he keeps dropping in the street , is one of a series of symbolic episodes expressing the generalized breakdown of communication in a country that has lost all sense of social cohesion . |