Example sentences of "used [prep] the uk " in BNC.

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1 For £7.50 , GP Services of Huntingdon , Cambs , offered to disclose details of a technique which had been ‘ tried , tested and proven ’ , which required no equipment or capital and which was ‘ currently being used throughout the UK ’ .
2 They have been used in the UK for many years and legislation allows the addition of 5 per cent of CBE fats ( about 15 per cent of the fat phase ) , and the product can still be called chocolate .
3 The UK operates a system of aids to joint investment schemes for forage groups ( under Article 11 of the LFA Directive ) through ‘ Food from Britain' and includes grant aid of 25% for certain machinery and 15% for tractors but this is not widely used in the UK .
4 Capital projects such as roads fall into an intermediate category ; while they may usually have few , if any , direct implications , roads are frequently used in the UK 's LFAs to gain access to more remote uplands with a view to future moorland/ rough grassland conversions .
5 If the Article was used in the UK ( woodland is well managed in the French uplands in any case ) to rehabilitate upland broadleaved woodland in the LFAs ( and outside the LFAs ) e.g. by fencing , selective felling and encouragement of regeneration , it could be extremely beneficial .
6 Steel or ( as they are still called ) ‘ tin ’ cans account for about 10 billion of the 14 billion cans used in the UK every year .
7 The Soviet diagnostics were of the same primitive type as those used in the UK .
8 The compulsory acquisition procedures used in the UK after a takeover will therefore become available throughout the EC , and this may promote cross-border mergers .
9 The standard thread used in the UK industry is Polyfil 120 .
10 The dye and additives used in the UK tend to leave a sooty deposit on pans , but a purer form available in other countries avoids this .
11 Last year , only 21% of glass used in the UK was recycled .
12 Culyer ( 1973 , p. 185 ) provides a useful illustration of a trial PPB system with respect to the allocation of expenditure in a police force , although he prefers to call this approach ‘ output budgeting ’ , a term used in the UK civil service ( see below ) .
13 A title of courtesy used in the UK in the address of a letter after a man 's family name , instead of Mr before it .
14 All of this may be possible in theory , but it is not an approach which has ever been used in the UK .
15 These terms are used in KPMG 's international Special Engagements Manual but are not yet widely used in the UK .
16 Nonetheless our own business remained profitable and has succeeded in growing its market share to the point where it supplies over one third of the gold jewellery materials used in the UK .
17 However , this method is currently little used in the UK .
18 This enables us in section 16.3 to understand the definitions of money that are officially used in the UK .
19 That led the Government to conclude that environmental concerns were bound to constrain the amount of coal that could be used in the UK in the longer term .
20 This tax invoice now assumes many of the characteristics we have come to associate with an internal VAT invoice , for not only will it show the customer 's VAT number , it will also be used by the UK acquirer of goods from within the EC as evidence to recover acquisition tax .
21 Back at Talland Bay our Officers let the smugglers do the heavy work of loading the huge two and a quarter ton cargo of cannabis resin ( street value £2,500,000 wrapped in Christmas paper into vans before moving in to arrest them while cottages and a cafe in the area used by the UK based gang were also raided .
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