Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the uk " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teesside Park — specialist retail outlets at the old Stockton racecourse , now being developed together with the UK 's largest leisure centre . |
| 2 | Approximately two million cars are sold each year in California — about the same number as registered annually in the UK . |
| 3 | They are high speed and fun , cutting through the water with little wake , and are raced and cruised all around the UK . |
| 4 | This regime makes the settlor of a non-UK resident trust liable to capital gains tax on gains made by the trustees where the settlor has an interest , or is treated as having an interest , in the trust ( the trustees themselves being outside the UK capital gains tax net if a majority of them are neither resident nor ordinarily resident in the UK and the general administration of the trust is carried on outside the UK — see s69 TCGA 1992 ) . |
| 5 | Under the overseas person exemption , many types of investment business which are actually carried on in the UK ( albeit from a non-UK office ) , are in effect treated as carried on outside the UK for the purposes of the FSA ( and so do not require authorisation under the FSA ) if the firm does not have a UK office from which it carries on investment business and : ( 1 ) The firm deals with or through , or arranges transactions with , an FSA-authorised person , such as a UK stockbroker , or an exempted person , such as a listed money market institution , acting within the terms of its exemption ( para 26 of Sched 1 ) ; this applies even if that person is an affiliate ; ( 2 ) the firm did not solicit the business in contravention of the FSA 's restrictions on the issue of investment advertisements and cold calling ( para 27 of Sched 1 ) . |
| 6 | " Regulated business " is defined by the COB Rules to mean either of the following : ( 1 ) Investment business carried on from a UK office ( of the firm or of an appointed representative ) ; this is the case even if the customer is a non-UK client and even if an account officer goes overseas to meet him ; or ( 2 ) Investment business carried on from a non-UK office with or for customers in the UK , except where that business would not be treated as carried on in the UK ( and so would not require FSA authorisation ) if the non-UK office had been a separate person ; this exception , in effect , provides the " foreign business carve-out " from the COB Rules for business with UK customers ( see page 40 below ) ; certain marketing rules are , however , brought back in ( see page 42 below ) . |
| 7 | In principle , a non-UK firm needs to be authorised under the FSA for investment business carried on in the UK . |
| 8 | Under the overseas person exemption , many types of investment business which are actually carried on in the UK ( albeit from a non-UK office ) , are in effect treated as carried on outside the UK for the purposes of the FSA ( and so do not require authorisation under the FSA ) if the firm does not have a UK office from which it carries on investment business and : ( 1 ) The firm deals with or through , or arranges transactions with , an FSA-authorised person , such as a UK stockbroker , or an exempted person , such as a listed money market institution , acting within the terms of its exemption ( para 26 of Sched 1 ) ; this applies even if that person is an affiliate ; ( 2 ) the firm did not solicit the business in contravention of the FSA 's restrictions on the issue of investment advertisements and cold calling ( para 27 of Sched 1 ) . |
| 9 | However , the firm will have to make the prescribed disclosure that all or most of the FSA protections do not apply if ( even though it does not have to do so ) it tells a private customer that it is a member of SFA or is otherwise FSA-authorised ; or ( 2 ) It is carried on with or for customers in the UK , but the FSA 's overseas person exemption would have applied if that non-UK office had been a separate person from the UK office ( see page 40 above and also below ) or , presumably , is outside the territorial scope of the FSA in any event ; or ( 3 ) The business is that of an appointed representative of the firm and is not carried on in the UK . |
| 10 | So , the only reason for her writing was to say that if he ever did get the chance to come over to the UK again , well , she 'd like — well , it would be nice … |
| 11 | By the time we eventually turned to starboard and headed off towards the UK I was most anxious to get home : I was to be the best man at a wedding that day , and I had to get back before high noon , When the dawn really appeared we were lying very sedately over ( and we were not aware of it at the time ) Belgium . |
| 12 | A trial of lens implantation on 40 patients with extreme short sight was reported yesterday to the UK Intra-ocular Implant Society by Mr Peter Choyce , a private opthalmic surgeon in London . |
| 13 | The superb sports complex — used extensively by the UK 's top athletes , including Linford Christie , Peter Elliot and Eamonn Martin , offers an excellent tartan track , plus international-standard facilities for more than 20 Olympic sports . |
| 14 | US dollars build up in the UK bank 's NOSTRO account when US importers pay UK exporters in US$ ( see next example ) or when the UK bank buys in US$ in the foreign exchange market . |
| 15 | WORLD snooker champion Stephen Hendry 's miserable season continued last night as he crashed out of the UK Championship in Preston . |
| 16 | Richer households produce twice as much domestic waste by volume as poorer ones and also throw away more potentially useful material , according to research carried out by the UK government 's Warren Springs Laboratory for the Department of the Environment . |
| 17 | HMIP pointed out that an enforcement role for such an agency would be an unnecessary duplication of work already carried out in the UK . |
| 18 | This system is streets ahead of the slap-happy way tests are carried out in the UK , where the whole system of hip dysplasia testing is open to abuse . |
| 19 | On one hand , the multinationals with their headquarters in the UK increasingly organize their worldwide production to gain the benefit of cheap labour in the Third World to carry out those parts of the manufacturing process that are labour-intensive , while the parts that are capital-intensive or rely on skilled techniques such as design are carried out in the UK . |
| 20 | We agree with CPRE that ‘ opencast mining is one of the most environmentally destructive processes being carried out in the UK ’ . |
| 21 | Anyone who has seen or lived near an opencast coal mining site will understand and agree with a statement which appeared in the First Report of the House of Commons Energy Committee ( 1986–87 ) : ‘ We agree with the CPRE that ‘ opencast mining is one of the most environmentally destructive processes being carried out in the UK ’ . |
| 22 | The survey — carried out in the UK , Germany and Spain — found that unions felt that blood-borne hazards outranked back injuries and strains , occupational stress , chemical exposures and assaults and violence as the main occupational risk causing greatest concern to workers . |
| 23 | On the basis of studies carried out in the UK , Europe and the US , the report concludes that car drivers are regularly exposed to levels of pollution up to 18 times higher than cyclists . |
| 24 | Margaret had one of the first major heart operations carried out in the UK more than 27 years ago in Edinburgh . |
| 25 | Although little detailed research has been carried out in the UK on the effects of financial innovation and structural change upon the appropriate conduct of monetary control , it appears that there is a consensus opinion that the effects of financial change necessitate that monetary policy be conducted in a discretionary manner . |
| 26 | That 's £21.46 more than it would have cost you , if you had dined out in the UK . |
| 27 | We have also fundamentally changed our manufacturing philosophy rather than manufacture here in the UK and sell abroad , we now , on the whole , manufacture where our markets are . ’ |
| 28 | So far , possible buyers have come forward from the UK , Europe and Canada . |
| 29 | In a recent case involving a driver of a heavy goods vehicle an oral promise was made by one of the driver 's managers that the driver , a Mr Rump , would not be required to work anywhere in the UK , as mentioned in his contract of employment , but only in the south of England because of special family ties . |
| 30 | The tribunal interpreted the implied mobility clause in Mr Bowles 's contract that he could be sent to work anywhere in the UK to mean that he could ‘ ordinarily ’ be sent to work anywhere in the UK . |