Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] us [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The visit completes a number of exchanges which began after General Yazov met the former US Defence Secretary , Frank Carlucci , in Switzerland last year . |
| 2 | This scheme is accounted for using the applicable US accounting standard . |
| 3 | After talks lasting a year , the government also agreed in June to bear the cost of relocating the main US army base from Seoul to a new site south of the city . |
| 4 | In so doing he became the first US President since Harry S. Truman to veto a major spending bill . |
| 5 | The package , which contained numerous tax incentives , was designed to stimulate the stagnant US economy , and to realize the administration 's prediction that economic growth would resume in early 1992 and would accelerate thereafter . |
| 6 | And afterwards , Norah Bayes ( the singer who provided the memorable US Number Three ‘ The Man That Put The Germ In Germany ’ in 1918 ) came up with ‘ We Take Our Hats Off To You Mr Wilson ’ , underlining the popularity of a two-term winner . |
| 7 | Sun has followed ICL Plc in adopting Boulder , Colorado-based Exabyte Corp 's 5Gb EXB-8500 Cartridge Tape Subsystem , becoming the first US firm to do so . |
| 8 | The DUP was the only party to refuse to meet the four-man US delegation during its Irish visit , and justice spokesman Ian Paisley Jnr insisted today his party had been vindicated . |
| 9 | Results of a survey conducted by SBT Accounting Systems show the average Us user squanders 5.1 working hours per week messing around with a computer . |
| 10 | Opposed by the United States and Israel , Resolution 44/217 of Dec. 22 deplored the continued US trade embargo against Nicaragua . |
| 11 | Before he left for Nassau the Cabinet agreed that he should reject offers made by McNamara for Britain to continue the Skybolt development on a fifty-fifty cost-sharing basis with no guarantee that the US would buy the weapon in the end ; or to buy the lower-performance US Hound Dog missile for her V Force . |
| 12 | The proposal , put forward by the Inter-American Development Bank ( IADB ) , appears to be aimed at defusing the strong US opposition on environmental grounds to the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) between Canada , Mexico and the United States . |
| 13 | He may have only two games to save his job against the powerful Brazilians and Germans to conclude the ill-fated US Cup tour . |
| 14 | Mrs Thatcher 's staff will today be scanning Mr Bush 's televised Thanksgiving address to the nation last night , in which the President emphasised the continued US commitment to the Nato alliance and the defence of Western Europe , stressing that Nato 's fortitude has been a prime cause of the transformations in Eastern Europe . |
| 15 | The first was yet another Commonwealth meeting , to prepare a broad policy among the powerful Commonwealth countries that would help to offset the massive US influence over the Latin American countries . |
| 16 | Professor Jonathan Mann , former director of the WHO Global AIDS Programme , has given his backing to ACET by joining Dr Everett Koop the former US Surgeon General , as an International Adviser . |
| 17 | Here , government discrimination against foreign firms , combined with preferential protection for Embraer , broke the earlier US stranglehold on the industry . |
| 18 | An overriding concern was to find a source of arms supplies to equip the Rebel Army and the people 's militia to fight the anticipated US invasion . |
| 19 | The Fabs are still the act logging the most US Number Ones since 1955 , 20 in all , while Paul McCartney ( 32 ) is the most successful writer , followed by John Lennon ( 26 ) , the all-time ace producer being George Martin ( 22 ) . |
| 20 | BRITAIN should hear the first US election result around 11.30pm tonight . |
| 21 | Under the terms of the SII agreement the USA and Japan had agreed to take measures to reduce the massive US trade deficit with Japan ( US$41,000 million in 1990 — almost half the total US trade deficit ) . |
| 22 | Cuban President Fidel Castro in his opening speech denounced the continuing US embargo against Cuba as " genocide and an insult to humanity " . |
| 23 | ‘ The International Intellectual Property Alliance ( IIPA ) has targeted seven countries for particularly egregious abuses of US copyrights and has asked the new US Trade Representative , Mickey Kauber , to designate them as ‘ Priority Foreign Countries ’ under the Special 301 provisions of the trade act . |
| 24 | In order to prove it was not composed of ‘ patsies ’ , as Reagan put it , the United States insisted that Arafat repeat specifically worded concessions concerning terrorism and recognition of Israel , and when he failed to do so verbatim , it required him to repeat the authorized US version . |
| 25 | Bobby Fischer beats Boris Spassky and becomes the first US chess champion : posing the question , Where is Reykjavik ? |
| 26 | Attlee 's arguments pointed clearly to the foreign policy eventually pursued by the post-war Labour Government — attempting to manipulate the emerging US superpower in a way that was compatible both with the maintenance of Britain 's overseas Empire and with her traditionally limited commitment to entanglement in European affairs . |
| 27 | Following the October announcement , the Malaysian Foreign Ministry accepted the increased US use of Singapore 's existing facilities but reiterated that Malaysia would be unhappy with a permanent US base in Singapore . |
| 28 | What they were not prepared to countenance was that ‘ the United States should redeem its unwanted dollars in goods , by undervaluing the dollar and thereby running a large and persistent export surplus : such a treatment was wholly unacceptable to export interests in Europe which would suffer the increased US competition ’ ( Tew , 1977 , p. 192 ) . |
| 29 | This emerged yesterday as the two companies finally confirmed they were discussing a deal to thwart the rival US car giant Ford , which intends to build a 15 per cent stake in Jaguar in preparation for a full bid . |
| 30 | ACTOR Charlton Heston has agreed to become the new US Chairman of the Duxford-based American Air Museum in Britain Campaign . |