Example sentences of "uk in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , despite its vagueness , the term ‘ deindustrialization ’ has a real meaning to all who have lived in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 2 | The ‘ cod wars ’ that embroiled Iceland and the UK in the 1970s have been settled by generally accepted legislation . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Dobermann first came to the UK in the late 1940s , imported from Holland by a keen ‘ stockman ’ , Lionel Hamilton-Renwick . |
| 5 | Incomes policies were first adopted in the UK in the late 1940s but became a regular feature during the 1960s . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | What , then , should business and education be concerned with in their coming together in the UK in the 1990s ? |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is argued that the UK in the 1980s showed a similar transformation . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ] . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , there are no plans to bring out a similar bundle in the UK in the near future . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |