Example sentences of "uk the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In the UK the relevant legislation , administered by the Home Office is the Animals ( Scientific Procedures ) Act 1986 .
2 Slough , Berkshire-based Ambitron Ltd showed for the first time in the UK the low cost desktop virtual reality system — CrystalEyes VR — and three-dimensional video system from Stereographics Corp of San Rafael , at the Virtual Reality ‘ 93 Conference in London earlier this month .
3 For the UK the highest estimate of this social cost is 7 per cent of company output , but most economists think the cost is much lower .
4 In the UK the Civil Aviation Authority has the duty of regulating civil aviation .
5 In the UK the Restrictive Trade Practices Court and the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( MMC ) exist to investigate whether collusive agreements exist or collusive conduct has taken place and , if so , whether they have operated against the public interest .
6 Not only was the UK the largest emitter of sulphur dioxide in Western Europe , it also exported 77 per cent of it , mainly on westerly winds to Europe .
7 The US in the first half of the 1980s appears to have had such a mechanism whereas in the UK the real wages of employees did not respond flexibly to high unemployment by falling .
8 In the UK the only practical , and politically acceptable , way of creating such ‘ wilderness areas , , would be by freehold purchase ( e.g. by NCC or NT ) involving buying out any existing tenancies or rights and by fencing out the whole unit .
9 In the UK the only practical , and politically acceptable , way of creating such ‘ wilderness areas ’ would be by freehold purchase ( e.g. by NCC or NT ) involving buying out any existing tenancies or rights and by fencing out the whole unit .
10 The result was that in the UK the minimum requirement was a scratch foil type of recorder but with the additional pitch attitude parameter , but in many aircraft up to twenty-four parameters were recorded electronically .
11 In the UK the political parties maintain a permanent grass roots organisation for this reason .
12 Thus in the UK the existing legal framework is limited to immunities , not specific rights .
13 News : In the UK the major news programmes are organised nationally by the BBC and ITN ( Independent Television News ) .
14 In the UK the established professions ( law and medicine ) and some of the semi-professions , such as the police , have traditionally been self-monitoring .
15 In the UK the new instability of exchange rates and international financial markets was followed , in 1976 , by the abandonment of Keynesian policies to sustain full employment and , since 1979 , by changes in the roles of the state , management and trade unions in influencing ( regulating ) the pace and direction of production and growth .
16 So each square kilometre in New Zealand has just twelve people to support while in the UK the average density is 232 .
17 For example , in the UK the average period between the ex dividend date and payment of the dividend is fifty three days , while the dividend is announced a few weeks before the ex dividend date ( Yadav and Pope , 1992b ) .
18 The effect was to make the UK the second largest net contributor to the budget in 1980 ( see Table 4.2 ) .
19 in UK The first nationally-organized car pooling scheme has been set up in the UK .
20 It is my pleasure and privilege to present to members of the Chartered Institute of Transport in the UK the first separate Chairman 's Report and Accounts since we in the UK became one of the nine National Councils now established by the Institute under the successful re-organisation approved by the Council .
21 Using DCE 's equipment , a ‘ meeting ’ with colleagues in the United States would cost about £2.80 per minute , about £1.60 per minute in France and in the UK the normal cost of a digital telephone line for the time the users are connected .
22 To eliminate the nature conservation/agriculture conflict in the uplands of the UK the following suggestions for change derived in Chapters 8 and 9 , are put forward : —
23 Any product announced at COMDEX ‘ Fall ( in November ) usually arrives in the UK the following March or April .
24 In the UK the current average expenditure on food is just under £2 per person per day .
25 The new US administration is expected to focus on key areas of enforcement of emission regulations and in the UK the 1990 Environmental Protection Act is being implemented industry by industry .
26 In the UK the top six to eight performers in executive search earn well in excess of £250 000 per annum plus a range of benefits .
27 In the UK the Inland Revenue Department and the Customs and Excise Department administer income tax and expenditure-type taxes respectively .
28 Organisations or individuals wishing to discuss research proposals with the Centre or requiring further information should contact : or his staff at Henley or if outside the UK the local contact person .
29 In the UK the Conservative government adopted a medium-term financial strategy ( MTFS ) .
30 We saw earlier that in the UK the main problem with an action for misrepresentation was that , as a general rule , neither party to a business transaction was required to disclose information to the other unless they were under some confidential or fiduciary obligation to do so ; and , in the UK , owing to Percival v.
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