Example sentences of "uk [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you are still in the UK for the four days from July 15–18 , put a note in your dairy to come and see us at this year 's Art in Action at Waterperry House , Wheatley in Oxfordshire . |
| 2 | Five new channels offering Digital Stereo Sound and , with the new D-Mac transmission system , improved picture quality will be available in the UK for the first time . |
| 3 | Unikix , the 18-month-old CICS-for-Unix product pioneered by Unicorn Systems Inc and now owned by Groupe Bull SA , is now being launched into the UK for the first time by Brentford , Middlesex-based Bull Information Systems Ltd . |
| 4 | We are immensely proud to be bringing it to the UK for the first time . |
| 5 | In the UK for the same period £1,600 million was spent on drugs , 50 per cent more than was spent in 1980 . |
| 6 | The deal , said by sources to be ‘ very valuable to Pyramid , ’ will also allow ICL to OEM the company 's high-end MIServer ES machines — this follows on from an informal Pyramid-ICL sales teaming that has been operating in the UK for the last few months . |
| 7 | The tension between the rights of parents , of their children , and of the state , which attracted increasing legislative attention in the UK during the nineteenth century , continues to be demonstrated in the concerns of pressure groups in recent years . |
| 8 | The arrival of skiffle in the UK during the mid-'50s also added to blues awareness , Lonnie Donegan even nicking his stage name from New Orleans ' blues giant Lonnie Johnson . |
| 9 | It was estimated that the gang had probably managed to shift about forty tons of high grade cannabis resin into the UK during the four years of operating the Guiding Lights . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Renault has played an important role in this change , with the popularity of Renault diesel engines reflected in the way diesel versions accounted for 16% of all Clio sales in the UK during the last quarter of 1992 . |
| 14 | As experience in the US or UK during the 1980s shows , a small state is not necessarily a weak state despite the rhetoric of claims that a limited state sector restores individual freedom and personal initiative . |
| 15 | There were also several differences between the profile of known Wirral heroin users and the ‘ new ’ heroin users described by the surveys in other parts of the UK during the 1980s . |
| 16 | Design consultancy was one of the fastest growing sectors in the UK during the 1980s . |
| 17 | It is possible that they have had some influence upon the Government of the UK during the 1980s , which has been markedly less disposed to intervene as directly in industry than its predecessors . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Three days later the ICJ announced that on March 26 it would open hearings on Libya 's application concerning the interpretation by the USA and the UK of the 1971 Montreal Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation . |
| 21 | Will further funds be withdrawn and the company allowed to fail with loss of jobs , or will it be supported as a ‘ lame-duck ’ reintroducing many of the industrial problems of the UK of the 1970s ? |
| 22 | For the UK throughout the 1970s gross contributions were high relative to economic prosperity . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | My children 's cousins are in the US or the UK with the best education facilities open to them . |
| 26 | Liberal Democrats believe that there are a range of initiatives which could be introduced in the UK along the same lines . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , despite its vagueness , the term ‘ deindustrialization ’ has a real meaning to all who have lived in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 28 | The ‘ cod wars ’ that embroiled Iceland and the UK in the 1970s have been settled by generally accepted legislation . |
| 29 | In itself it is not a new idea , and it shares much with the combined method which was the basis for deaf education in the UK in the 19th century . |
| 30 | The Dobermann first came to the UK in the late 1940s , imported from Holland by a keen ‘ stockman ’ , Lionel Hamilton-Renwick . |