Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the usa " in BNC.
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| 1 | The range was designed in the USA under the watchful eye of Chris Kelley , the director of Artist Relations for Hoshino and who has in the past been responsible for such marriages as Joe Satriani and Steve Vai with their custom Ibanez guitars . |
| 2 | Our four modern refineries , located in the USA , Canada , Australia and the United Kingdom , convert primary and secondary gold into a wide range of internationally recognise |
| 3 | It spends £100,000 in buying American shares ( that are located in the USA for the purposes of Schedule D , Case V ) and receives £2,000 . |
| 4 | The condition that we now recognise as AIDS was first reported in the USA in 1981 . |
| 5 | Late in 1991 they were completed and returned to Rochester and around the same time the Merlin 266 engine that had been rebuilt in the USA came home and was fitted to the airframe . |
| 6 | The first of these objectives was particularly pursued in the USA , where humans were relatively recent but where the fossil history of the horse seemed to be well displayed , and where there were curious links between reptiles and birds . |
| 7 | Lift and Snip scissors originated in the USA , but have become increasingly popular in Britain . |
| 8 | The health and fitness revolution originated in the USA , where 49 per cent of the population now exercise regularly . |
| 9 | But , despite the fact that headhunting originated in the USA , and that the Big four have gained a strong presence in the British search market , the headhunting business in Britain has evolved not by aping the American fashion but in its own way , with its own style , priorities , emphasis and approach . |
| 10 | His statement was a consequence of an earlier announcement by US President George Bush that the USA had completed the pledged withdrawal of more than 2,400 tactical nuclear weapons located outside the USA , including those based on warships . |
| 11 | Expansion was not confined to the USA . |
| 12 | They needed to co-ordinate thousands of manufacturing operations in GM 's plants scattered across the USA ; and secondly they needed a system to control the supplying of its dealer network with vehicles and spare parts . |
| 13 | The Chicago discussions were attended by fifty-one countries , many of which were still under German or Japanese occupation , so the proceedings were dominated by the USA , Britain , and the Commonwealth ( the USSR backed out at the last minute ) . |
| 14 | Environmental officials believe that some 3 billion used tyres are currently stockpiled around the USA . |
| 15 | The Dominican Republic , which gained its independence from Spain in 1844 ( but was occupied by the USA from 1916 to 1924 ) , comprises 26 provinces , each administered by an appointed governor , and a Distrito Nacional containing the capital . |
| 16 | Yet , currently , Europe is being outperformed by the USA and Japan . |
| 17 | Baker also claimed that the results of the international diplomatic isolation of Iraq , fostered by the USA , had been " extraordinary and unprecedented " , and he praised the UN , the Arab League and the Non-aligned Movement for their co-operation . |
| 18 | October 11 : LANSA Curtiss C–46D Commando HK–750 , carrying false registration marks N–500 , entered Guatemalan airspace on a flight from Colombia without authority , believed destined for the USA , and crashed on a farm near Quirigua , Izabal province , 120 miles NE of Guatemala City , while attempting to force-land . |
| 19 | The power of the sun would then be harvested by an array of silicon or gallium arsenide solar cells and then beamed back to earth by microwave and converted into low-frequency , alternating current electricity and fed into the USA 's grid . |
| 20 | On Dec. 21 , 1990 , European Community ( EC ) Environment Ministers agreed on new , stricter , car exhaust emission standards which would bring EC regulations up to the levels applied in the USA since 1983 . |
| 21 | Y is resident and ordinarily resident and domiciled in the USA . |
| 22 | X is resident , ordinarily resident and domiciled in the USA . |
| 23 | The vast majority of basic trainers are , or were , manufactured in the USA , and most of the remainder come from outside the UK . |
| 24 | Work done in the USA has lent some support to the tendon splitting operation as a treatment for some tendon injuries . |
| 25 | The earliest expert systems were built in the USA as part of academic programmes investigating the application of various AI computing techniques to problem solving . |
| 26 | Of the 7,098 varieties of apples grown in the USA in the last century , all but 6,121 have disappeared . |
| 27 | In addition , some of the film of Japanese aircraft is of captured or surrendered examples being evaluated in the USA . |
| 28 | It is normal mode of practice to put any old thing on the plate ( a company 's US headquarters is quite normal ) and then a detachable sticker on the neck giving the real story , thus encouraging the sort of ‘ Made in the USA ’ guitar snobbery that continues to exist . |
| 29 | Created in Germany and made in the USA , this fun-fly soft kite comes in Snoopy and Red Baron variations . |
| 30 | Allowance had to be made in the USA and Australia ( though not in Sweden ) for the impact on union growth of government action . |