Example sentences of "states [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been costly , but what a rave report BR will be getting in the States about the quality of its service to customers ! |
| 2 | He emigrated to the United States as a child and received a teacher 's certificate from Nebraska University in 1916 . |
| 3 | David had come to the United States as a headliner . |
| 4 | For the United States as a whole , the average monthly AFDC payment in 1980 was $313 ; no southern State paid above 75 per cent of the national average , however . |
| 5 | The South Atlantic region ( Delaware , Maryland , Virginia , West Virginia , North and South Carolina , Georgia and Florida , plus the District of Columbia ) performed much better than the national average , especially in the first two decades when growth rates were half as large again as those for the United States as a whole . |
| 6 | The next move , planned at a series of meetings with Control at the Washington Court hotel in Washington , D.C. , was to use the Boohaker connection to worm his way into the heart of General Aoun 's constituency in the United States as a stepping stone to the general himself . |
| 7 | It accepted that in due course the British would probably try to use the United States as a counterweight to the USSR . |
| 8 | In Britain , attitudes to American foreign policy have fluctuated , but polls have always shown warm feelings towards the United States as a nation . |
| 9 | Moreover , even when negotiations were opened , the principle of reciprocal bargaining introduced by the United States as a result of its own domestic legislation from the 1930s , meant that the LDC 's had little to bargain with . |
| 10 | But he noted that the USSR would probably evaluate the military concessions granted by the United States as a result of such disengagement as greater than those conceded on their own part . |
| 11 | The survey design will take account of work being conducted in the United States as the basis for a comparative evaluation of British and American experiences . |
| 12 | In Britain and the United States judges are selected from lawyers , usually only after many years in practice , in Britain as an advocate , and in the United States as an advocate or in a legal post within the government . |
| 13 | Had worked in the United States for a while and returned to England minus his American wife . |
| 14 | There was little Coleman could do in the circumstances except fill out an IAP-66 authorization form for Syrian George and take him over to the embassy for a J-1 visa to admit him to the United States for a course of study at UAB . |
| 15 | On June 3 Soviet President Gorbachev , in the United States for a summit meeting with President Bush , warned Israel that he would consider suspending the issuing of exit permits for Soviet Jews if they continued to be settled in the occupied territories . |
| 16 | On seeing my person , he took the opportunity to inform me that he had just that moment finalized plans to return to the United States for a period of five weeks between August and September . |
| 17 | I was seized one day with the desire to go to the United States for a period of study . |
| 18 | His problems in composing this lecture were no doubt compounded by the fact that he had had in the past expressed no great liking for Goethe 's poetry — " I ca n't stand his stuff , " he had once told Ronald Duncan — and in any case he now found public addresses a complete waste of time.Immediately on his return from Germany , he travelled to the United States for a visit of two months . |
| 19 | Ricardo Ellcock , the Middlesex fast bowler , plans to study in the United States for a career as an airline pilot after confirming yesterday that he is to retire from first-class cricket , as reported in Monday 's Daily Telegraph . |
| 20 | For example , Roman Jakobson and his Prague school colleague René Wellek have had considerable influence on literary studies through their teaching and work in the United States for a number of decades , and , although it carried no explicit theoretical creed , René Wellek 's Theory of Literature ( co-authored with Austin Warren and first published in 1949 ) was for many years the only widely available explicitly theoretical account of literary studies for Anglo-Saxon students of literature . |
| 21 | IRCA granted amnesty to nearly 3m workers in the United States for the year ending May 1st , 1986 . |
| 22 | Habash stated that the PFLP 's decision was a result of what he described as the " erroneous political line " being pursued by the PLO leadership in accepting conditions set by the United States for the formation of a Palestinian delegation to the Madrid conference . |
| 23 | ‘ I studied architecture here , but then went to the States for the degree , ’ Vitor replied , and rapped out brief details . |
| 24 | He subsequently began to abandon Iran 's long tradition of playing off East against West and turned increasingly towards the United States for the support of his regime . |
| 25 | In 1983 , however , it seems that Pakistan did not seriously test Soviet terms for a withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan , and in May the Pakistani Foreign Minister failed to obtain the concurrence of the United States for the draft settlement reached the previous month . |
| 26 | As far as Comfort knew , they had returned to the States for the duration , although in fact they had been in London for part of the time , working for the Free French , and back in France for most of the rest . |
| 27 | ULSTER football fans planning to travel to the United States for the World Cup finals next year have been warned they could face problems getting a visa . |
| 28 | On Jan. 14 it was announced that the government had reached agreement with the United States for the rescheduling of repayments of debt principal and interest totalling US$47,000,000 , due between June 1 , 1991 , and June 30 , 1992 ; part of this — US$18,700,000 due to the US Agency for International Development ( USAID ) — was to be postponed for 10 years , while the rest was to be subject to a six-year grace period . |
| 29 | A NEW antifouling that can be used on underwater metal has produced sales of more than $1.3 million in the United States during the launch period . |
| 30 | In the United States during the period we are discussing there were powerful moves for the professionalisation of sociology and social science . |