Example sentences of "uk [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French consumers ' demands for quality of manufacture and their desire for a fun approach to dressing remain the hallmarks of a label which has enjoyed a cult following in the UK during the past few years . |
| 2 | As we saw in section 2.5 , the sectoral spatial division of labour was already beginning to break down in the UK during the post-war years when Fordism is supposed to have been at its height . |
| 3 | This project extends previous research on the office development cycle to investigate all sectors of building and construction in the UK during the post-war period . |
| 4 | ‘ If the killings go on , there 's going to be a big rethink in the UK about the whole question of sporting links with South Africa . ’ |
| 5 | And while some people might use a sunscreen abroad , over 40 per cent of those who often suffered sunburn did n't use anything when holidaying in the UK despite the recent hot summers . |
| 6 | Trade and Industry Secretary , Peter Lilley , announced that Britain will still be able to down a pint after 1992 , despite some attempts by Brussels to bring the UK into the metric system . |
| 7 | Last year , Sean was the envy of thousands of stand-up comedians when he toured the UK with the raunchy female strip show the LA Centrefolds , playing to packed houses . |
| 8 | The Dobermann first came to the UK in the late 1940s , imported from Holland by a keen ‘ stockman ’ , Lionel Hamilton-Renwick . |
| 9 | Incomes policies were first adopted in the UK in the late 1940s but became a regular feature during the 1960s . |
| 10 | It may be argued that regional industrial policy in the UK in the late twentieth century has aimed to maintain — some might say fossilize — the population distribution created on the coalfields in the early nineteenth century . |
| 11 | One of the most advanced initiatives in the area of pre-school and special needs is Portage which has spread dramatically throughout the UK in the past 12 years . |
| 12 | Thus , while the USA has shared the distinction of a comparatively low overall growth rate with the UK in the post-war period , the level of its labour productivity in manufacturing industry has consistently been 50 per cent higher than the UK [ Caves and Krause , 1980 ] . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , there are no plans to bring out a similar bundle in the UK in the near future . |
| 14 | The immediate moves by Britain , France , Italy and others to freeze Kuwaiti assets following the invasion , together with the strong endorsement by Thatcher ( currently visiting the USA ) of the US call for sanctions , were followed up by the rapid adoption of sanctions by EC member countries , participation by the UK in the US-led multinational force , the dispatch also of French helicopter-borne troops , and decisions by several European countries to send naval vessels . |
| 15 | Many businesses in the UK within the multi national conglomerates — business entities with huge work-forces and sophisticated products and services — have clear pathways through which people understand their responsibilities and the parameters for discharging that responsibility . |
| 16 | In 1986 , there were nearly 160,000 deaths in the UK from the various forms of cancer , about a quarter of all deaths . |
| 17 | Such a move might release the UK from the moral obligation to support any legislation stemming from it , but the Commission would still be entitled to bring forward legal proposals . |
| 18 | Section IV would give an overview of the policy responses of the UK to the environmental pressures identified above . |
| 19 | There has always been hostility in the UK to the cook-book approach to accounting standards . |
| 20 | In that context we should therefore be grateful that our own dear CAA has delegated the regulation of homebuilding in the UK to the Popular Flying Association ; but I still ca n't help feeling that the list of types approved by the PFA as reproduced in this book is ultraconservative . |
| 21 | From 1966–72 he was Executive Director in charge of overseas affairs and Alternate Governor for the UK on the International Monetary Fund . |
| 22 | The Treasury instructed the Inland Revenue to obtain information from California-based companies in the UK on the probable impact of retaliatory measures which would be taken in the first instance against them if the US Government fails to resolve the continued burden of unitary tax on foreign-owned companies in the state by the end of the year . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've included the UK on the short list , at this stage , ’ said Klepner , ‘ because Mark says that when the task force teams come to prepare the comparative cost studies in detail they will find that the economics of manufacturing certain new products will almost certainly favour production in the UK . |
| 24 | Much of the growth achieved in the UK over the past year can be attributed to the consultancy division , but worldwide , Andersen Consulting 's growth has slowed . |
| 25 | Incidences of sun-induced skin cancer — have doubled in the UK over the past five years . |
| 26 | There has been an extraordinary rise in the sales of diesel cars in the UK over the past two years and diesel is proving more and more popular on the continent too . |
| 27 | ‘ Danish farmers are also keen to try their hand at outdoor systems , which we have seen emerging in the UK over the past five years , and trials have already begun . ’ |
| 28 | Although the proportion of GNP taken in tax has risen in the UK since the early 1970s , the UK is , in comparative terms , only a middle-ranked country in terms of tax-take , with tax ( excluding community charge ) amounting to 35.2% of GNP in 1990 . |
| 29 | In the UK at the present time ( 1988 ) the balance of trade deficit has increased from £10.2 billion in 1987 to almost £20 billion in 1988 . |
| 30 | The most economically prosperous parts of the UK at the present time are widely regarded as the towns and cities located on a broad axis extending from Cambridgeshire to Dorset and Avon . |