COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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country
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Yet the Government has committed Britain merely to stabilise emissions by 2005 - well behind the majority of EC countries .
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Makers have been persuaded to publish lists of prices in 10 EC countries .
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Exports to EC countries increased 12.9 percent in January compared with January 1990.
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Britain also makes more direct private investment in the developing world than any other EC country - some £2,400 million in 1989.
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No major EC country has ever been refused what it wanted when it declared that a vital national interest was at stake.
directive
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The working party has authority to form a draft EC directive .
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Furthermore, building enough to replace sufficient coal-fired stations to meet the draft EC Directive meant an impossible construction programme.
limit
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On 20 November 1989, the same treatment works at Camelford again polluted water with twice the EC limit for aluminium.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If directives are not being enforced at a local level, the EC market will remain unfair.
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More than 10,000 EC students came to study in Britain in 1987, the last year for which figures are available.
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Most EC goods enter almost duty-free.
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The EC plans a rescue attempt, with subsidies and incentives to plant more cork oaks.
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The distillers believe the EC tax policy is strangling their business.
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They are also eligible under EC rules for any public subsidies available to companies incorporated under the law of the host state.
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To get ministerial approval it will need to contain something for everybody, in the best tradition of EC compromises.