Example sentences of "uk [noun sg] has [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prolonged UK recession has reduced the numbers able to contemplate buying a home overseas ; indeed , some of those with properties in Europe are now trying to sell , to reduce their borrowings . |
| 2 | Pre-tax profits for the half year to August are flat , only Pounds 500,000 ahead at £143m , and the UK slump has slammed the lid on margins . |
| 3 | Australian maritime company Howard Smith 's UK subsidiary has made the bid . |
| 4 | Conversely , if the UK limit is lower than the EC limit , the exporter of an item valued at or above the UK limit has to use the UK application form . |
| 5 | The UK government has announced a ban on the non-agricultural use of the pesticides atrazine and simizine , commonly used to clear weeds from roadside verges , railway lines and footpaths . |
| 6 | The UK government has announced a plan to give the public freer access to environmental information , in line with a 1990 EC directive on the subject . |
| 7 | The UK government has announced a number of measures to boost energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources . |
| 8 | The UK government has announced a series of new initiatives for the countryside , in a package involving £22.5 million of new expenditure spread over three years . |
| 9 | The UK government has announced the appointment of an advisory committee on business and the environment , composed of leading industrialists . |
| 10 | Since 1972 the UK government has adopted a policy of progressive reductions in the quantity of lead permitted in petrol . |
| 11 | The UK government has launched a grant scheme to encourage the restoration of damaged hedgerows and their maintenance as wildlife havens . |
| 12 | The UK government has ordered the closure for modifications of a Derbyshire incinerator which was emitting dioxins , after milk from three nearby farms was found to contain the chemical at densities above the permitted level . |
| 13 | The UK government has issued a consultation paper on the further protection of wildlife and habitats designed to conform with an European Community ( EC ) directive on habitats which is due to come into force in June 1993 . |
| 14 | The UK profession has lobbied the DTI , Parliament , the European Commission , the European Parliament , and national centres of influence by giving seminars in many of the European countries . |
| 15 | The first time a UK manufacturer has won an award for an ICN product . |
| 16 | As a result of these anti-avoidance provisions , the foreign business carve-out is excluded , and the general COB Rules apply in relation to the customer concerned , where : ( 1 ) A UK office executes a transaction with or for a UK private customer on the instructions of a non-UK office ; or ( 2 ) A UK office gives investment advice in relation to any transaction to a non-UK office , which the non-UK office passes on to ( or uses for the benefit of ) a UK private customer if ( in either case ) : ( a ) the UK office itself transmitted the order to a non-UK office of the firm ( even if a different one from that instructing it ) ; ( b ) the UK office has itself advised the customer in relation to the transaction concerned ( and the customer has then directly or indirectly given the order to the non-UK office which deals through the UK office ) ; or ( c ) the UK office has advised the customer to deal through or seek advice from a non-UK office of the firm ( even if the relevant prescribed disclosure was made ) . |