Example sentences of "country such [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Countries such as the Baltic states hardly signed up with the Soviet Union as free agents . |
| 2 | When Herbert came to put paper on his ideas about where his son 's gifts had come from , he started trying to develop a theory about ‘ mongrelization ’ , or the mixing of racial and cultural traditions , with some countries such as the United States , Australia , Canada and South Africa acting as crucibles or melting pots . |
| 3 | There are perhaps 11,000 of them in the UK today and twice that number worldwide : they were exported to countries such as the USA ( where they have an enthusiastic following ) , Canada and Australia before the First World War and are also in the USSR , the Falkland Islands , Sweden and Germany . |
| 4 | Its capacity for quick growth and early maturity is still appreciated , especially abroad , and there are breed societies in countries such as the USA ( which also has a Polled Shorthorn ) , Canada , Argentina , Uruguay , South Africa , the USSR , New Zealand and Australia . |
| 5 | In the 1980s it has been acknowledged that the importance of formal ( tripartite ) arrangements at ‘ peak ’ levels has been reduced — indeed it is now often suggested that Britain was always less ‘ corporatist ’ in these terms than countries such as the Federal Republic of Germany , Austria and Sweden . |
| 6 | The video writing speed ( the rate at which the rotating video heads track across the tape ) is 3.8 metres per second for countries such as the US and Japan which have 525-line pictures , and 3.2 m/s for Europe 's 625 lines . |
| 7 | For companies in countries such as the UK , where the tax treaty with the US does not prohibit the imposition of such a tax , the costs of disposal of a US business would certainly mount . |
| 8 | This may be beneficial if it enables them to take advantage of the participation exemption available in countries such as the Netherlands or France . |
| 9 | As an illustration , he notes that despite the many differences between industrial relations under communist systems in certain countries such as the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia , and those under the capitalist system in Britain , the emergence of the shopfloor representative in the workplace as a crucial role-player is common to all , albeit making representations about different issues . |
| 10 | Not only has a trend towards the internalisation of negotiating activity been apparent in Britain but also in those countries such as the United States and Japan where enterprise level bargaining has predominated labour relations issues have long been handled by the managements of individual undertakings themselves . |
| 11 | More likely , definitions will be harmonised , and unitary taxes introduced , within blocks of countries such as the EC or NAFTA , suggests Mr Devereux . |
| 12 | Concepts such as ‘ capitalism ’ , ‘ liberal democracy ’ , or ‘ the state ’ are all ideal types , because we know that there are infinitely many differences between actual liberal democratic states in capitalist countries such as the USA , the UK or France . |
| 13 | In contrast , the adjustable peg system was characterized by long periods of crisis in deficit countries such as the UK with exchange rate adjustment occurring infrequently and belatedly , e.g. the devaluations of 1949 and 1967 . |
| 14 | It seems likely that permits are increasingly being given for non-manual occupations , which has tended to favour the white inhabitants of developed countries such as the USA and South Africa . |
| 15 | In countries such as the former Czechoslovakia ( now two separate nations ) , two-thirds of motor lubricants are bought from petrol stations . |
| 16 | Instead , countries such as the Czech Republic , Slovakia , Hungary and Poland , where conditions are more conducive to good business strategies , are likely to scoop up the funds on offer . |
| 17 | However , for countries such as France , Japan and Taiwan and a number of developing countries such as the Republic of Korea which lack readily available alternative energy sources , the development of nuclear energy still remains a priority . |
| 18 | ‘ It is now clear in countries such as the USA , where public apprehension about nuclear power grew before it did in Britain , that people are now moving away from outright opposition , ’ he said . |
| 19 | The aim is to develop a range of policies to develop the positive aspects of this process for scientific growth in potential host countries such as the UK ; and also to minimise the deleterious effects of negative aspects such as those bound up with the current ‘ brain drain' . |
| 20 | Figure 5.22 shows that developing countries such as Nigeria , Indonesia and Egypt consume a mere fraction of the energy consumed by countries such as the UK and Australia . |
| 21 | These qualification requirements are wider than with other unregistered designs and there are also reciprocal arrangements with several non-European Community countries such as the United States , Switzerland and Japan . |
| 22 | It has been argued that lower productivity countries such as the Southern European states , Ireland and the UK could suffer from the creation of the SEM . |
| 23 | A second trend has been abolition of withholding taxes in countries such as the US , Germany and ( for non-residents ) France and Spain . |
| 24 | While in countries such as the United States and New Zealand , confine data protection concepts to the public sector . |
| 25 | The Japanese position initially highlighted the weak commitment of countries such as the US and Britain to commit itself to any targets . |
| 26 | Household waste can still be exported to neighbouring countries such as the Netherlands and Belgium under existing contracts . |
| 27 | In some European countries such as the Netherlands , the same effect has been obtained by delaying the turn-out of calves until mid-summer . |
| 28 | Speaking after he revealed a 58.5 per cent jump in first-half pre-tax profits , Sir Alistair and his chief executive , John Robb , said the company was operating against the background of countries such as the Germany , Italy , Spain and the UK ‘ taking extreme measures against the pharmaceutical industry in an effort to control costs ’ . |
| 29 | In a country such as the UK , many cars are company-owned but available for private use . |
| 30 | The Directive applies whether or not the offeror comes from the Community or a third country such as the US or Japan . |