Example sentences of "[adj] [art] us [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In January 1948 the US State Department began to consider posting an Ambassador to Madrid and supplies of petroleum and military and paramilitary matériel began to be sent through the Standard Oil Company . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , in April 1948 the US Congress approved the European Recovery Programme , as the Marshall Plan had become , which provided several billion dollars to European countries in 1948–52 . |
| 3 | DECISION ‘ 92 THE US ELECTION RESULTS ( BBC2 , midnight ) |
| 4 | In August 1986 the US Agency for International Development ( USAID ) withheld all funding from UNFPA . |
| 5 | In 1980 the US response to conflict at the head of the Gulf was twofold . |
| 6 | By the mid-1950s productivity in steel was around half the US level . |
| 7 | DISTRIBUTES RUSSIAN LANGUAGE NETWARE 3.11 AT HALF THE US DOLLAR PRICE … |
| 8 | This is an important topic since 95 per cent of rural households in the USA consume only groundwater , while half the US population consumes at least some groundwater ( Merchant et al. 1987 ) . |
| 9 | At a series of informal meetings in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on Aug. 1-2 the US Secretary of State , James Baker , and the Soviet Foreign Minister , Eduard Shevardnadze , discussed a wide range of issues , including outstanding differences on the terms of the planned treaty on strategic arms reductions ( START ) , the date for a third summit between President Bush and President Gorbachev , moves to resolve the regional conflicts in Afghanistan and Cambodia , and the possibility of US economic aid to the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | On Sept. 30 the US Navy decommissioned its Subic Bay base , hitherto the major supply and repair centre for the US Seventh Fleet . |
| 11 | On March 22 the US Senate approved a non-binding Concurrent Resolution which acknowledged that " Jerusalem is and should remain the capital of Israel " . |
| 12 | In February 1991 the US ambassador Crescencio Arcos stated that US military and economic aid for the year would exceed $123,000,000 . |
| 13 | In February 1991 the US government ( supporting a claim made by the US Congress in August , 1990 , that there was endemic corruption within the armed forces in the fight against drugs ) had threatened to withhold $100,000,000 in economic development aid . |
| 14 | The Greek authorities protested when in January 1991 the US government warned its nationals against travelling to Greece for fear of Gulf-related incidents . |
| 15 | On March 26 the US State Department confirmed that it had in July 1991 denied a visa to Narong because of suspicions over his role in heroin trading . |
| 16 | On Dec. 26 the US administration renewed for six months the economic sanctions against Libya which had been imposed in January 1986 . |
| 17 | James Baker expressed on Aug. 10 the US view that Resolution 661 gave " the legal authority necessary to constitute such an embargo or blockade , provided the request comes from the legitimate government of Kuwait " . |
| 18 | In August 1991 a US district judge had ruled that the statute violated the right to abortion guaranteed by Roe v. Wade . |
| 19 | In the Seventies the US government initiated large farming projects to boost food production , but today those fields are growing mainly opium . |
| 20 | On Oct. 21 the US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney was quoted as saying that " whatever develops within the area of European security identity should not detract from … the basic cohesion of NATO itself " , but adding that decisions about European security were the prerogative of Europeans . |
| 21 | By Jan. 21 the US Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger , while clearly recognizing " Israel 's right as a sovereign state to retaliate , to defend itself " , was able to confirm that Israel had pledged to work closely with the USA and " will consult us first " before taking any such action . |
| 22 | On May 21 the US State Department issued a statement indicating its apprehension over the rising number of Palestinians being killed in the occupied territories and calling on the Israeli government to exercise restraint . |
| 23 | Early in 1946 the US State Department emphasized the crucial importance of Britain in Europe , especially in the absence of any other significant ally . |
| 24 | At a round of talks in Madrid on June 22-23 the US side proposed that any country should have the right to resume mining if the signatory nations could not reach agreement within three years . |
| 25 | In January 1948 a US official told the British ambassador that Europe must soon he able to say ‘ no ’ both to America and Russia . |
| 26 | In 1980 a US judge had suggested a figure of $3,000,000 , while the US government had demanded in 1988 that Chile pay $12,000,000 in compensation [ see p. 36346 ] . |
| 27 | When Ghana became independent in 1957 the US aluminium corporations , Kaiser and Reynolds , outbid British interests to develop the bauxite industry . |
| 28 | On Sept. 18 the US Deputy Secretary of Energy , W. Henson Moore , and the Soviet Minister of Nuclear Power Industry , Vitaly Konovalov , signed a memorandum of co-operation committing their countries to developing common policies and practices on environmental restoration and waste management . |
| 29 | On Nov. 18 the US Defence Secretary , Richard Cheney , announced a plan to reduce US defence spending by USdollars 180,000 million over a three-year period . |
| 30 | The faster US troops can turn over responsibility for keeping the peace to Panamanian forces , officials said , the better the US invasion would look to Latin Americans . |