Example sentences of "by [art] us [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Hovey 's survey of 61 female nurses and senior student nurses , 39 male nurses and senior student nurses and 19 doctors highlighted concerns over how male nurses are viewed by the US public .
2 He urged the Aquino administration to abandon attitudes which would be " interpreted by the US public as an act of anti-Americanism " .
3 It was the fourth such agreement under a international debt initiative launched by the US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady in March 1989 [ see pp. 36541-42 ; 37016-17 ; see p. 37243 for similar agreement with Mexico ] .
4 Purchase could be made if they were licensed by the US Treasury 's Office of Foreign Treasury Control .
5 Debt-reduction agreements with commercial bank creditors within the formula developed by the US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady were achieved by Mexico [ see p. 37243 ] , Costa Rica [ see p. 37450 ] , Venezuela [ see p. 37313 ] and Uruguay [ see p. 38249 ; other debt agreements : Argentina — see pp. 37040 ; 37244 ; 37451 ; 37959 ; Mexico — see p. 37770 ; Brazil — see p. 37709 ; Peru — see pp. 37772-73 ; Venezuela — see p. 37650 ] .
6 Much of the success in restoring aid flows was attributed to the debt-reduction scheme proposed in March 1989 by the US Treasury Secretary , James Brady [ see pp. 36541-42 ; 37016-17 ] .
7 Iranian oil sales to the United States , which ceased in 1987 , were officially resumed on June 11 following approval by the US Treasury for US oil companies to purchase 2,500,000 barrels of Iranian crude oil worth an estimated US$35-40,000,000 .
8 Argentina thus became the fifth country to reach such an agreement as part of the Brady Plan , a mechanism devised by the US Treasury Secretary Nicolas Brady in March 1989 to reduce the debt burdens of developing countries [ see pp. 36541-42 ] .
9 City of London Telecommunications Ltd , which is 90% owned by the US Fidelity Management & Research Corp , is only the second company to win a new public telephone operators licence since the creation of the British Telecommunications Plc-Mercury Communications Ltd duopoly .
10 This was included after considerable discussion and strong recommendations being put forward by the US Register of Copyright , which referred to ‘ the enormous potential importance of showing , rather than distributing , copies as a means of disseminating an author 's work ’ .
11 Based on photos taken by the US satellite , Landsat 5 , it was estimated that the total area cleared in 1991 was 11,132 square kilometres , equivalent to 0.3 per cent of the Amazon land area .
12 Its activities have led to one boat being badly damaged by a French warship , another rammed by the US Navy while trying to interrupt a missile test , and one sunk in harbour by French agents .
13 A North Korean cargo ship , Dae Hung Ho , docked at the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas in the Strait of Hormuz , having evaded a threatened interception by the US navy in the Persian Gulf .
14 The vessel , monitored by the US navy since its departure in late February from North Korea , had ( while docked in Singapore ) given its ultimate destination as Equatorial Guinea .
15 He was also said to have been angered by a report by the US Export/Import Bank which criticized the structure of the Israeli economy and raised doubts about its ability to repay the debts it intended to take on to help Soviet immigrants .
16 A DECISION by the US computer company Digital on the future of their plants at Ayr and Galway is imminent .
17 The construction of an appropriate regulatory framework is extremely complex and this has been borne out by the US experience .
18 The problem has been augmented over the past two years by the US recession , which brought about more company failures , and the savings and loan debacle .
19 On Jan. 21 a Senate standing committee urged the government to make " full use of the opportunity provided by the US ban on weapons sales " , saying that " we should not only seek alternative sources but utilize all our capabilities to achieve self-reliance in defence production " .
20 The software is being developed by the US company General Instruments , which is working flat out on it at its plant in San Diego , California .
21 The purchase of 236 Abrams M-1A2 tanks , manufactured by the US company General Dynamics , was officially confirmed by Kuwait on Oct. 11 .
22 Based on a design by the US company Westinghouse , four or five new such stations were originally planned , but Nuclear Electric now plans to build only two Sizewell B " clones " later this decade .
23 They were supported in this on Aug. 6 by the US Attorney for Kansas , Lee Thompson .
24 Donated to the IHM by the US Defence Department , this Vietnam veteran entered service in 1967 and was shipped immediately out to ‘ Nam , where it is believed to have participated in the Tet Offensive of 1968 .
25 Casualty figures released by the US Defence Department on Jan. 9 stated that 220 Panamanian civilians and 314 members of the FDP had been killed and 124 FDP members wounded .
26 Involving airborne and seaborne troops , warships and fighter-planes and bombers , the US manoeuvres were seen by Cuba as a rehearsal for invasion , but described by the US Defence Department as routine .
27 The conclusions are not contested by the US government .
28 Under guidelines drawn up by the US government last August , a company called Systems and Applied Sciences Corporation was due to supply the equipment .
29 In July 1853 Commodore Matthew Perry , officially commissioned by the US government to initiate relations with Japan , arrived in Uraga , at the southern end of Tokyo Bay , with a squadron of four ships .
30 He made no mention of the demonstrations and the tear gas , although many Iranians , including some of his own supporters , would be convinced that he episode had been planed by the US government as a deliberate insult to him .
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