Below you will find example sentences with "overseas territories". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Overseas Territories in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: overseas
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 9
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 25.9 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "overseas territories" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 25.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as with the overseas territories, 14 uk overseas territories working with, british, minister and commonwealth stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with occupied territories, northwest territories, palestinian territories, overseas filipino and overseas markets, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with overseas territories
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British Overseas Territories Citizens to be precise. (7 words)
What is the UK Parliament’s relationship with the overseas territories? (11 words)
Premier Andrew Fahie and UK minister responsible for Overseas Territories, Lord Tariq Ahmad. (13 words)
Skelton recently backed out of Premier Dr Natalio Wheatley’s offer to appear in a joint press conference to rebut Governor John Rankin’s move to secure greater powers for his office from the United Kingdom’s Overseas Territories Minister. (40 words)
The British government pushed to water down key parts of an EU crackdown on corporate tax havens at a European Council meeting this week, days after the Paradise Papers leak revealed more evidence of tax dodging in UK overseas territories. (40 words)
In the aftermath of those global conflagrations, independence movements emerged in overseas territories once administered by the United Kingdom and France and set in motion decades of decolonization across Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East, and Asia. (37 words)
What is the UK Parliament’s relationship with the overseas territories? (11 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Foreign Secretary and the Minister for the Overseas Territories, will continue to engage directly with the Overseas Territories, including during the November Joint Ministerial Council and in future visits to the Territories.
One High Commissioner will represent all the Commonwealth Countries and one Overseas Territories representative will represent all the Overseas Territories, a spokesman for Gibraltar House in London confirmed.
The Overseas Territories are self-governing territories and the idea of legislation being forced upon them is problematic.
According to the Premier, JMC meetings will focus on reframing the relationship between the OTs and the UK, as well as the development of a new UK strategy for its engagement with the Overseas Territories.
According to various newspaper reports, proposals to use overseas territories have been resurrected, with Ascension Island – a volcanic island in the middle of the south Atlantic – being considered.
HE Director General for America, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Middle East, Overseas Territories at the British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Vijay Rangarajan attended the meeting.
In England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland тАУ and across our Overseas Territories and the wider Commonwealth тАУ people are marking this momentous occasion in the spirit of unity and hope for the future,тАЭ he said.
Not only did Scotland, Northern Ireland, Gibraltar reject Brexit, but other Overseas Territories such as the Falkland Islands have suffered from the 2016 initiative.
The audit and inspection of His Majesty’s Prison Stanley took place between 16 August to 8 September 2022 and was carried out by David Butler-Trump a Ministry of Justice Overseas Territories Prisons Advisor.
What is the UK Parliament’s relationship with the overseas territories?
British Overseas Territories Citizens to be precise.
Downing Street sources later insisted there had been no change of position on Gibraltar, the Falklands Islands, or any of the other British overseas territories.
In the aftermath of those global conflagrations, independence movements emerged in overseas territories once administered by the United Kingdom and France and set in motion decades of decolonization across Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East, and Asia.
Skelton recently backed out of Premier Dr Natalio Wheatley’s offer to appear in a joint press conference to rebut Governor John Rankin’s move to secure greater powers for his office from the United Kingdom’s Overseas Territories Minister.
The Royal Navy, RFA and merchant navy operate round the clock, all year, in peacetime and war, protecting and connecting our islands and 14 UK overseas territories, working with allies worldwide and promoting global Britain.
Overseas territories could even take part in the COP26 and the Glasgow Climate Change Summit in 2021.
We are looking, in conjunction with the other Overseas Territories, to organize an air bridge.
France runs its overseas territories as “departments,” with social services at the same level as France’s.
Premier Andrew Fahie and UK minister responsible for Overseas Territories, Lord Tariq Ahmad.
The British government pushed to water down key parts of an EU crackdown on corporate tax havens at a European Council meeting this week, days after the Paradise Papers leak revealed more evidence of tax dodging in UK overseas territories.