Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the us " in BNC.
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| 1 | The country 's failure to ban such fishing methods led to the US adopting an embargo on Mexican tuna in 1991 , followed by other European and Asian nations [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 2 | Paramount , in fact , planned a British directors company , bringing together the talents of Reisz , Clayton , Schlesinger and Peter Yates , but dropped the idea when most of these directors emigrated to the US anyway . |
| 3 | Many different varieties of apples emerged in the US and its apple industry was set in motion by Henderson Luelling — a fortune hunter who went west during the gold rush in a covered wagon full of soil and apple trees . |
| 4 | Just over half the profits came from the US , where Carlton 's North Hollywood processing lab dealt with a record 1.2bn feet of film , including Warner 's blockbuster , Batman Returns . |
| 5 | Continuing anti-US feeling in Iran and the associated strength of the radical Islamic political forces resulted from the US refusal to make a more comprehensive effort to compensate Iran for the shooting down of an Iranian airbus in the Gulf by the USS Vincennes warship in July 1988 [ see pp. 36169-70 ] , and from the fact that it continued to hold , according to official Iranian estimates , some $12,000 million in assets frozen since the 1979 Iranian revolution [ for agreement in November 1989 to release assets see p. 37053 ] . |