Example sentences of "[adv prt] by the us " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Marine Harvest , the former Unilever subsidiary which was bought over by the US MariFarms Inc Group last year , has remained in the US market although only a small proportion of its 10,000 tonnes production from Scotland is sent there . |
| 2 | Under guidelines drawn up by the US government last August , a company called Systems and Applied Sciences Corporation was due to supply the equipment . |
| 3 | If this was justification for blockading and bombing his country , most of the regimes propped up by the US would be awaiting a similar fate . |
| 4 | Japan 's 1947 constitution , drawn up by the US occupying authority , widened the franchise to all adults and the frequent national elections since then have , technically at least , given citizens the opportunity to express their preferences . |
| 5 | Then , in the late afternoon , Eric would be picked up by the US postal jeep , which carried important military mail from Milan to Rome by way of Verona , Bologna and Florence , and arrive in Rome at first light the following morning . |
| 6 | Before 1982 , less than half the tuna sets carried out by the US fleet were made on dolphins . |
| 7 | The products are said to prevent cancer , but studies carried out by the Us National Cancer Institute repudiate these claims . |
| 8 | The construction of an appropriate regulatory framework is extremely complex and this has been borne out by the US experience . |
| 9 | These two elements of a manager 's job were picked out by the US organisational psychologists Robert Blake and Jane Mouton as characterising the leadership role , following studies they made in the oil industry soon after World War 11 . |
| 10 | While Mexico 's political weakness was excused and its economy helped out by the US , Brazil 's relationship with Washington steadily deteriorated and its policies came under American attack . |
| 11 | Earlier figures given out by the US Army in January said that 23 US soldiers had been killed ( later amended to 26 ) and 323 wounded . |
| 12 | Widely publicized claims that quicklime can destroy the highly toxic pollutants , polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ) are false , according to the results of experiments carried out by the US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) . |
| 13 | The new wording , insisted on by the US government , which is refusing to commit itself to specific targets , refers to the reduction of emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000 as merely a " guideline " target . |