31.   But more such deals will follow, say analysts, as the pressures to merge break down traditional national boundaries.

32.   But the most striking feature about the Internet in Europe is its fragmentation along national boundaries.

33.   But with no national boundaries or organizational restrictions on the Internet, even fledgling film makers can act like little movie studios.

34.   But this is the new Europe, the one with no national boundaries and a forthcoming universal currency.

35.   Chairman Lord Wolfson said the acquisition will help the British company provide credit services more suitable to an age when credit information needs to cross national boundaries.

36.   Cheryl Irwin, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Information Agency in Washington, D.C., said the visits are important for addressing environmental issues that cross national boundaries.

37.   Conspiring to commit an act of terrorism transcending a national boundary.

38.   Even though the new European single currency is hastening the development of a single financial market, banks are shoring up their positions by merging within national boundaries.

39.   Even thinking in terms of national boundaries was considered old-fashioned.

40.   Even taking the national boundaries of Russia as given, the crucial issue in Russian domestic politics is state-building rather than democratization.