Example sentences of "uk [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Incomes policies were first adopted in the UK in the late 1940s but became a regular feature during the 1960s . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | What , then , should business and education be concerned with in their coming together in the UK in the 1990s ? |
| 34 | Although this figure was less than the current level of HK$91,000 million , it was almost three times the amount promised to China by the UK in the 1991 memorandum of understanding , which was the condition for Chinese approval for Hong Kong 's new airport |
| 35 | The resulting degree of demographic and socio-economic polarization at regional , sub-regional and local scales is the central feature of the many changes which have affected the geography of the UK in the second half of the twentieth century . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | The evil evil hardcore of scum supporters who caused aggro all over Europe and the UK in the seventies and eighties , under the smokescreen of media adoration . |
| 38 | Certainly , if one compares living standards today with those experienced in this country one hundred years ago or , to make an even more stark comparison , with those experienced in many Less Developed Countries ( LDCs ) today , then it is true that poverty in the UK in the 1980s is relatively insignificant . |
| 39 | Similarly the sharp collapse of factory production in 1980 was a real crisis which could be interpreted as laying the foundations for new industries in Britain and a new set of international trading and investment relations for the UK in the 1980s . |
| 40 | It is argued that the UK in the 1980s showed a similar transformation . |
| 41 | Even though the link between investment and growth is in some ways tenuous , it is interesting that the increased level of fixed investment in the UK in the 1980s has been accompanied by a much stronger growth performance . |
| 42 | It may be argued , however , that the lack of success experienced by the UK in the 1980s with its attempts to control the money supply growth rate was due to special factors and should not be employed against the search for ways of formulating an effective monetary policy at the national level . |
| 43 | 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 ] . |
| 44 | Unfortunately , there are no plans to bring out a similar bundle in the UK in the near future . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | The research , by evaluating the experience of the UK in the 1930's , aims to test the hypothesis that the discouragement of imports through duties or licensing systems , increased the demand for the products of British industry and stimulated the expansion of manufacturing output . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | The British trade is dismayed that the Open Individual Export Licence ( OIEL ) , which allowed Sotheby 's and Christie 's to issue licences for objects imported in to the UK within the last fifty years without having to go through the DNH , does not apply to objects controlled under the EC Regulation . |
| 50 | In 1986 , there were nearly 160,000 deaths in the UK from the various forms of cancer , about a quarter of all deaths . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | HANDLEY PAGE Hampden P1344 , imported into the UK from the former USSR by collector Jeet Mahal , is destined for the RAF Museum , after a series of negotiations . |
| 53 | They got a nasty shock : real bush pilots had been attracted to the UK from the four corners of the earth to get these well-maintained examples , and the high prices they fetched reflected the great demand that still exists for these superb workhorses . |
| 54 | The text almost serves as a history of aviation in the UK from the 1930s onwards . |
| 55 | These amazing horns were neither described , illustrated nor found in skeletal remains in the UK before the eighteenth century and there is a theory that they resulted from Bakewell 's intensive inbreeding methods . |
| 56 | Income tax in peacetime was not introduced in the UK until the 1840s , and VAT — a general tax on goods and services ( with a few specified exemptions such as good and children 's clothing ) — was not introduced until the 1970s . |
| 57 | Section IV would give an overview of the policy responses of the UK to the environmental pressures identified above . |
| 58 | There has always been hostility in the UK to the cook-book approach to accounting standards . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | However , there are in reality few prominent cases of the direct transfer of production from the UK to the Third World . |