Example sentences of "[noun prp] states the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The even more rapid decline in the two-party vote in Britain is to some extent compensated for by the increased vote for the smaller parties since the 1970s , but in the United States the proportion of the electorate mobilized by the parties is almost certainly even smaller because of the growing number of single-issue pressure groups in recent years . |
| 2 | The volume had been published in the United States the year before , and the American critics had been more divided in their response . |
| 3 | For example , in the United States the Century Council targets drunken driving and underage drinking . |
| 4 | Today Canada took the silver , and the United States the bronze medal . |
| 5 | In Britain , the sovereignty of Parliament was conceived in opposition to royal absolutism ; in the United States the separation of powers limits the government 's powers and the constitution is sovereign . |
| 6 | No longer is the United States the single dominating power . |
| 7 | In the United States the State of California 's Air Resources Board announced new regulations for petrol on Nov. 24 , requiring a 30 per cent cut in emissions of air pollutants by March 1996 . |
| 8 | It is said that in the United States the overload of cases and the dominance of the system by plea bargaining mean that the theoretical presumption of innocence is replaced by an actual presumption of guilt in which the costs to the defendant of contesting his or her innocence are frequently overpowering . |
| 9 | In addition , in the United States the view prevailed that it was neither possible nor desirable to attempt to influence social and political behaviour very much . |
| 10 | The New Delhi paper estimated that 0.038 of a ton of oil was burnt to produce a ton of grain in India ; in the United States the figure was 0.110 . |
| 11 | In 1967 in the United States the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ( ADEA ) was passed to protect older workers ( aged 45–64 ) from a variety of discriminatory employment practices , including age-based discrimination in hiring and firing , providing employee benefits , and determining promotions , training and related areas . |
| 12 | In the United States the Age Discrimination Act 1967 aims to ‘ promote the employment of older persons based on their ability rather than their age , to prohibit arbitrary age discrimination in employment , and to help employees and workers find ways of meeting problems arising from the impact of age in employment . ’ |
| 13 | Moscow has publicised a secret agreement allegedly signed between Washington and Islamabad in June 1982 which offered the United States the right to use Pakistani naval and air bases . |
| 14 | In the United States the graduate school is the major arena of pedagogic activity and intellectual life . |
| 15 | In the United States the theory that evolved was based on ‘ pitch phonemes ’ ( Wells , 1945 ; Pike , 1945 ) : four contrastive pitch levels were established and intonation was described basically in terms of a series of movements from one of these levels to another . |
| 16 | It is even suggested that in the United States the routine exposure of the population to radionuclide release from coal burning in that country could be significant and possibly comparable with the effects from nuclear power ( Wilson et al. , 1980 ) . |
| 17 | In the United States the vote for the President is cast separately to those for members of The House of Representatives ( lower house ) and The Senate ( upper house ) . |
| 18 | In the United States the President often has to work hard to create a majority to support his proposed legislation in its passage through Congress . |
| 19 | In the United States the President is elected every four years and , according to the constitution since President Eisenhower , no president is constitutionally eligible to remain in office for more than two successive four-year terms . |
| 20 | Assume for the moment that in the United States the Constitution , the statutes enacted by Congress and the legislatures of the several states , and past judicial decisions are , by convention , all grounds of law . |