Example sentences of "states [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was rivalry that tamed a continent , harnessing the resources of harsh environments and creating an economy that before long was to give the United States the industrial leadership of the world . |
| 2 | A second phase has recently been commissioned which extends to Japan and United States the comparative work already begun with the UK , West Germany and France . |
| 3 | In the history of the settlement of the United States the first white settlers in north America arrived in Virginia in 1607 , and by 1685 there was a serious increase in flooding caused by forest clearance . |
| 4 | In Britain came the Ferranti Mark I and the Leo computer , in the United States the first Univac machine was produced . |
| 5 | In the United States the first ‘ engineers ’ or drivers and their firemen performed other tasks , such as selling tickets and moving baggage and freight . |
| 6 | In the United States the long dominant Democratic New Deal electoral coalition , which Franklin Roosevelt created out of the white south and the industrial working-class , has been in retreat . |
| 7 | The HDI was widely criticized for its complexity and for a system of weighting data which gave the United States the lowest HDI of any developed country ( owing to its high illiteracy rate ) . |
| 8 | In the United States the 1935 Wagner Act was the watershed for trade union recognition and protection of employee collective bargaining rights , particularly in the mass-production industries of automobiles , steel and rubber . |
| 9 | Further , the Compacts of Free Association of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands preserve in the United States the subjective power to determine those security and national interests . |
| 10 | In the United States the Supreme Court ruled some twenty years ago that " the weight of a citizen 's vote can not be made to depend on where he lives " . |
| 11 | In the United States the Supreme Court in Marbury v Madison ( 1803 ) 1 Cranch 137 , decided that it had the power to declare both the acts of Congress and of the President to be unconstitutional . |
| 12 | In the United States the Supreme Court , in Marbury v Madison ( 1803 ) 1 Cranch 137 , declared that it had power to decide whether or not the Acts of Congress conformed with the Constitution . |
| 13 | In the States the classic examples , which you should study , are the books of Ed McBain about the work of the detective of the " 87th Precinct " in an unnamed city . |
| 14 | In the United States the economic impact of the size of the post-war military establishment and budget has been tremendous . |
| 15 | In the United Kingdom and the United States the over-eighties are the most rapidly growing age group ( Grundy , 1986 ) . |
| 16 | Professor F. M. Scherer of Yale , whose work on industrial structure we cited in Chapters 8–10 , has argued that in the United States the social cost of monopoly is large enough ‘ to treat every family in the land to a steak dinner at a good restaurant ’ . |
| 17 | In the United States the obvious involvement in the political process of the Supreme Court is due to the court having laid claim early in the nineteenth century to the power of judicial review , that is the right to review the constitutionality of executive and legislative acts . |
| 18 | In the United States the old people 's lobby is a very strong voice politically , and older votes are more assertive on their own behalf Another phenomenon observed there is the intensity of prejudice by the younger , affluent and active older people against those who are frail and dependent . |
| 19 | In an initiative that is bound to influence the practice of corporate funding of contemporary art exhibitions in the United States the American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation announced last month that it will award grants totalling $500,000 to ten different museums . |
| 20 | In the United States the American Cancer Society and the American Urological Association recommend an annual rectal examination for men aged over 50 . |
| 21 | While in the United States the unfolding tale of corruption and mismanagement at the EPA has tended to focus on the usual mainstays of White House interference and ‘ sweet-heart ’ deals with past industrial employers , little attention has been paid to the Lysenkoist assaults of the Reagan administration on the EPA 's scientific integrity . |
| 22 | In 1898 Spain suffered at the hands of the upstart United States a humiliating military and naval defeat in the Caribbean and Pacific . |
| 23 | She visited the United States a second time in 1902 , as a founding member , with Susan B. Anthony , of the International Council of Women . |
| 24 | In the United States a sharp drop in Scholastic Aptitude Test ( SAT ) scores ( an examination used widely to select students for college admission ) has been evinced as ‘ proof ’ of falling standards . |
| 25 | ANDRE AGASSI cruised to a comfortable 6-1 , 6-2 , 6-2 triumph over Marc Rosset last night to give the United States a 1-0 lead over Switzerland in the Davis Cup final . |
| 26 | Erm these states had come together voluntarily in seventeen eighty seven er to secure common aims protection against foreigners , Indians er economic aims , and these aims bound them together , common purposes and so on , but was the United States a permanent union ? |
| 27 | While this made eminent sense for production efficiency in wartime , it was very much apparent to the British that this would give the United States a natural advantage when the war ended . |
| 28 | The Russian Sputnik had been launched two years before , and produced in the United States a feverish alarm lest their Communist competitors should outstrip them in a world increasingly penetrated by science and technology . |
| 29 | In the United States a national botanical garden was founded to exploit the seeds and plants brought back by a Pacific exploration expedition under Charles Wilkes in the years 1838–42 . |
| 30 | In France , Jean-Pierre Chevènement , who resigned as defence minister shortly after the outbreak of war , accused the United States a few years ago of ‘ the organised cretinisation of our people . ’ |