Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] the united [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The axis of the great shift in the world ran between Bonn and Moscow , and if Britain was nominally closer to it all than the United States , its political leaders had even less to say . |
| 2 | Decisions on the administration of Korea had to be reached swiftly and the United States would be dependent on Soviet goodwill at first , since American forces were not immediately available to occupy south Korea . |
| 3 | A powerful Japan could work either for or against South Korea ; so long as the United States exercised a controlling influence over Japan , it would work for rather than against South Korea . |
| 4 | If 58 per cent expected the USSR rather than the United States ( 21 per cent ) to be the guilty party , only 40 per cent approved of American policy and 35 per cent were critical . |
| 5 | First in the world to deploy an ICBM , it took the Soviet Union ten years longer than the United States to develop a reliable guidance system ; it has also taken 25 years to develop a quiet nuclear submarine , and having set the pace with anti-satellite weapons , the USSR may already have fallen behind the United States in this field . |
| 6 | Esler Dening commented that he had always suspected that the Americans had not appreciated the full significance of what they had taken on in Korea ; it appeared that they were unwilling to accept the consequences of being located in an area of Soviet predominance and it would be regrettable in its implications elsewhere if the United States retreated . |
| 7 | In fact it was at this time just as the United States was beginning to take up his Girls that he set up a school there . |
| 8 | The regime continues to feel that it has two chief enemies : Iraq locally and the United States , the Great Satan , farther off . |
| 9 | The United States of America has progressed much further than the United Kingdom has in determining this question but the basic legal principles are the same : copyright protects expression but not idea . |
| 10 | Events in Guatemala in 1954 set a vivid precedent and were a potent reminder that even a glance in the direction of Communism was more than the United States was prepared to countenance . |
| 11 | As their resistance to a dollar devaluation against their currencies showed , European and Japanese capital stood to lose more if the United States financed its capital outflow through a trade surplus . |
| 12 | Shorn of all element of compulsion , now that the United States was no longer even pretending that the dollar was convertible into gold , the rise in official holdings of dollars showed that dollars were the best asset to hold . |
| 13 | The 1936 Act was certainly effective so far as the United Kingdom was concerned . |
| 14 | Legally , it would seem that nothing less would do , so far as the United Kingdom is concerned . |
| 15 | Of the twenty States listed in the Table , thirteen are parties to the more recent Hague Convention of 1965 which does not involve the abrogation of the earlier bilateral Conventions but has in practice superseded them so far as the United Kingdom is concerned . |
| 16 | In so far as the United Kingdom might wish to argue that it itself has the right under the Convention to retain requirements such as those at issue , reference can also be made to the court 's judgment in Commission of the European Economic Community v. Italian Republic ( Case 10/61 ) [ 1962 ] E.C.R. 1 , from which it appears that according to the principles of international law , a member state which , by virtue of the entry into force of the E.E.C . |
| 17 | As far as the United Kingdom is concerned there is one major and very simple reason for this — exporting is necessary for our economic survival . |
| 18 | Societies in which a broad consensus dominates political thinking — such as Germany and Japan today and the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s — tend to respect the think-tanks ' claim of neutrality . |
| 19 | ‘ Matters of concern would have included the extent to which United Kingdom residents were investors in the Jersey funds , how they had come to be investors in those funds , how those funds were managed , whether they were kept separate from the United Kingdom funds or whether there was intermingling [ the switching of money between UK and offshore funds ] … and , ultimately , whether the Jersey funds as well as the United Kingdom funds could be properly accounted for . ’ |
| 20 | The project will involve working in North America as well as the United Kingdom . |
| 21 | If the American people , like Naisbitt , can face this situation realistically and without xenophobia in the 1980s , it will be good for the rest of the world as well as the United States . |
| 22 | Following his election in December 1988 [ see p. 36423 ] Carlos Andrés Pérez was inaugurated as President for a five-year term on Feb. 2 , 1989 , in the presence of over 20 heads of state and government including the Cuban President , Fidel Castro , the then Nicaraguan President , Daniel Ortega Saavedra , and Felipe González , the Spanish Prime Minister , as well as the United States Vice-President , Dan Quayle . |
| 23 | The European zone , for example , was growing twice as fast as the United States ' zone , and now employed a quarter of a million people . |
| 24 | Educational accountability emerged in the United States earlier than the United Kingdom , where the term did not appear in an official document until the publication of the ‘ Green Paper ’ . |
| 25 | As the next chapter shows , the subsequent oil price rises were also to hit Germany and Japan much more heavily than the United States . |
| 26 | Guests were from major oil companies and other associated gas turbine users from as far afield as the United States and Indonesia . |