Example sentences of "[vb past] in the us " in BNC.

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1 They insisted that there was no long-term contradiction between a common tariff structure to protect fledgling industries , and CARICOM taking advantage of such free trade areas as that proposed in the US Enterprise for the Americas Initiative [ see pp. 37526 ; 37914 ] .
2 Already characterized by the victory of democracy over authoritarianism in Latin America , this new age would , he said , be bolstered by a new economic partnership linking both hemispheres in a free-trade zone stretching from Alaska to Cape Horn , a concept expounded in the US Enterprise for the Americas Initiative launched by Bush in June 1990 [ see p. 37526 ] .
3 The US duo arrived in Spain on a private jet from North Carolina , where they played in the US Tour Championship on Sunday , and both have to be back in the States next Monday .
4 ‘ Looking at what happened in the US under the push of liberalisation in the air transport market , you ca n't necessarily say it was better afterward , ’ Silvestri said , carefully avoiding to choose the US telecommunications system as his example .
5 All of Gold Fields Mining Corporation , also based in the US ; and
6 But Concord Leasing , also based in the US , slumped to a £75 million loss , from profits of £11 million last time , and the London stockbroker , James Capel , saw profits dive from £14 million to only £2 million .
7 Jose-Maria Olazabal , who arrived in the US as an undoubted front-runner after finishing second to Woosnam last year , had a bad time last week in New Orleans , finishing right at the back of the field .
8 He served in the US Army Signals Corps during the latter stages of the First World War before settling in Onawa , Iowa , where he worked as a teacher and ran a sweetshop in his spare time .
9 Keiran served in the US Air Force , fought the Pentagon to prevent being posted to Vietnam and eventually ended up at Salford studying under the G.I. Bill of Rights , all paid for by Uncle Sam .
10 ‘ The semiconductor market also is being helped by the gradual global economic recovery that began in the US in the fourth quarter of 1992 ’ — remark that seems to ignore the fact that continental Europe is plunging into ever deeper recession while the jury is out on whether recession has bottomed in Japan.The North American market should reach $23,600m in shipments in 1993 for a growth rate of 28.1% .
11 Again it would not matter if the person were a US citizen or not , so long as he or she lived in the US the classification would stand .
12 It will be available for Sun , HP , DEC and Silicon Graphics machines come April priced in the US at $1,500. +1 403 245–0036
13 But , strangely , I have seen no protests concerning an equally callous and stupid mishandling of a human being in distress just now perpetrated in the US of A.
14 BRITON Michael Ford called in the US Navy when he fell ill on a Greek holiday — and was treated like an admiral .
15 Some degree of accommodation between conservation and tourism is essential , involving the management of both place and people , possibly in a similar way to that employed in the US national parks ( section 8.3.1 ) .
16 During the Fifties , output per person grew in the US by 2.4 per cent a year .
17 Criticism of Israel also grew in the US Congress .
18 Many different varieties of apples emerged in the US and its apple industry was set in motion by Henderson Luelling — a fortune hunter who went west during the gold rush in a covered wagon full of soil and apple trees .
19 In the first of a regular series , we bring together some of the practical designs and circuits which first appeared in the US magazine EDN .
20 Friedan 's The Feminine Mystique ( 1965 ) , which first appeared in the US in 1963 , at the beginning of the second wave of western feminism , quotes male psychologists extensively and uncritically .
21 The trend follows hot on the heels of the phenomenal success of buying computers by direct mail , also pioneered in the US .
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