Example sentences of "be [prep] the usa " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless otherwise specified , the futures contracts reported are for the USA . |
| 2 | After interviewing more than 50 witnesses and reviewing tapes and papers from the security services , Hamilton stated that " all credible evidence " suggested that George Bush had been in the USA on Oct. 18-22 , 1980 , when , as vice-presidential candidate , he was alleged to have flown to Paris to negotiate the deal with representatives from the revolutionary government of Iran . |
| 3 | Ed 's note : Recent articles in the national press have highlighted how much cheaper items are in the USA in general — not just in the fishkeeping trade . |
| 4 | In answer to a parliamentary question on Aug. 5 the government said that it expected its NATO allies to withdraw around 133,000 troops over the next few years , of which 75,000 would be from the USA and 25,000 from the UK . |
| 5 | THE Republic of Ireland expect to have a full strength team out on Wednesday , they expect to beat Lithuania and they expect to be in the USA for next summer 's World Cup finals . |
| 6 | A euro-currency is a time deposit held in a bank located outside the country ( or central bank 's jurisdiction ) responsible for the currency in which the deposit is denominated , e.g. a dollar time deposit held in any bank 's branch in London or a DM time deposit held in any bank 's branch in Luxembourg ( both financial centres are outside the USA and West Germany respectively ) . |
| 7 | At the end of that period , in May 1943 , Hugh Wilson , who was in charge of the Rangoon diocese , Bishop West being in the USA recovering from a severe motor accident , agreed that we should move to Simla so that I might maintain liaison with the Burma Government-in-exile that had made its headquarters there . |
| 8 | The highest rates of increase during 1987 were in the USA , the Soviet Union and China , with the last-named recording a 4.8 per cent rise . |
| 9 | The flight is via the USA with only one stop ; travel time about 30 hours out and 27 hours back . |
| 10 | It 's also significant that the school 's reputation seems greater abroad than it is within the USA , with a large complement of each class being made up of foreign students . |
| 11 | Profits were better too in Australia , but 's in the USA failed to live up to the promise seen in the first six months . |
| 12 | He has been at Charlton for ten months after completing a period of secondment at Shaw 's in the USA . |
| 13 | What evidence there is from the USA suggests that local authorities there are simply not prepared , either physically or mentally , to deal with the new service demands of the exurban inmigrants ( Green , 1983 ) although work in Canada , using a game-playing approach , has tended to suggest that the inmigrants have the same service demands as the existing inhabitants ( Joseph and Smit , 1983 ) . |
| 14 | At a recent Hugh O'Neill turning demonstration he mentioned in passing how much cheaper woodworking equipment is in the USA . |
| 15 | It is in the USA that residential preference has been invoked most as an explanation for decentralization ( Berry 1976 ) , perhaps partly as a return to old ideas of the frontier and the rural idyll , as Champion ( 1987 ) suggests . |
| 16 | But the knowledge-as-a-good-in-itself argument does not necessarily point to any particular kind of curriculum ; it can be ( and is in the USA ) used to justify a more general curriculum in higher education . |
| 17 | However , Sir John Cockroft was in the USA at the time , did not attend the lecture and so was unable to get at first hand insights into what the Soviets had , and had not , done . |
| 18 | One afternoon while I was in the USA , I received four obscene telephone calls . |
| 19 | But it was in the USA that sociology was emerging as a separate discipline both academically and institutionally . |
| 20 | When I was in the USA , I had no roots at all because I was born in Europe . |
| 21 | It was from the USA that the ‘ group system ’ of investigation now advocated by ICAO originated as , to a certain extent , did the present format of ICAO aircraft accident reports . |