Example sentences of "[modal v] be [vb pp] [prep] [art] usa " in BNC.
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1 | Dollars borrowed must be used outside the USA . |
2 | Each costs $399 ( about £250 ) and must be bought outside the USA . |
3 | The conference would be held in the USA under the auspices of the UN , which had been mediating in the Cyprus conflict since Turkey invaded and occupied 37 per cent of the island in 1974 [ see pp. 26661-66 ; 26709-10 ] . |
4 | Firstly , on 13 April 1960 the House of Commons was told that the Macmillan Cabinet had decided to cancel Blue Streak ; instead the Skybolt air-launched missile ( designed to extend the life and range of the V-bombers ) would be purchased from the USA . |
5 | It is grimly appropriate that as individualism supplants collectivism as the dominant football ethos , the next competitions will be staged in the USA . |
6 | With all the technological genius that can be raised in the USA to produce a B-1 supersonic bomber , they had to settle for a cruising speed of 1.25 times the speed of sound while the routine Concorde bus service across the Atlantic ticks over steadily at fully twice the speed of sound — and anyone who can afford to buy a ticket can experience it . |