Example sentences of "[vb past] to the usa " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1914 an offer from Australia took Lewis and his trainer , Alec ‘ Zalig ’ Goodman , to Sydney and five matches in three months , from where they sailed to the USA on business which lasted five years . |
| 2 | Third-World countries appealed to the USA to reconsider its stand , saying that unless it did so , countries which had not signed the Montreal protocol would be unable to do so , rendering efforts to save the ozone layer fruitless . |
| 3 | In an interview in the New York Times of March 9 , Najibullah appealed to the USA ( which had committed substantial support to the mujaheddin ) to help his government in its fight against the spread of Islamic fundamentalism in central Asia , and to provide economic and humanitarian assistance . |
| 4 | As one of the four original components of the US-administered UN Trust Territory of the Pacific , Belau had negotiated a Compact of Free Association with the USA , but this compact had never become operative , as the rights which it granted to the USA to determine defence and foreign policy issues conflicted with the clauses of Belau 's Constitution which forbade the entry , storage or disposal of nuclear , chemical or biological weapons . |
| 5 | A Soviet spy identified in reports as Igor Cherpinski , a third secretary at the Soviet embassy in Brussels , defected to the USA according to a report in La Libre Belgique , a leading newspaper , of June 5 , 1990 . |
| 6 | Concern over a covert Iraqi nuclear weapons programme had grown after US intelligence sources claimed that a senior Iraqi nuclear scientist , who recently defected to the USA , had confirmed that a substantial portion of Iraq 's nuclear and chemical weapons stocks remained intact . |
| 7 | He stayed the week and was given lots of extra training , but he was still unsafe when he returned to the USA . |
| 8 | The affair ended with the child 's birth and Murphy returned to the USA . |
| 9 | It has been exported since 1817 , when it first went to the USA and Canada , soon spreading into Mexico and South America and readily adapting to environments which ranged from very cold uplands to hot , semi-desert plains . |
| 10 | Perhaps the confusion is understandable : British Whites went to the USA along with the few true White Parks during the Second World War for the security of the breeds . |
| 11 | The first known Chinese student to go abroad was Yung Wing , who in 1847 went to the USA . |
| 12 | In 1846 he went to the USA to study and lecture , and in the following year was appointed to a chair at Harvard . |
| 13 | Unable to live a normal life , he emigrated to the USA in September 1818 . |
| 14 | Under Items 806.30 and 807 in the code , US firms can gain tariff exemptions for products exported from the USA , processed abroad and re-imported to the USA . |