Example sentences of "commissioned [prep] the us " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July 1853 Commodore Matthew Perry , officially commissioned by the US government to initiate relations with Japan , arrived in Uraga , at the southern end of Tokyo Bay , with a squadron of four ships . |
| 2 | The report , which was commissioned by the US Agency for International Development , claims the main producer regions of Chapare and Beni are dumping 38,000 tons of waste each year into streams which feed Amazon tributaries . |
| 3 | An unpublished study commissioned by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts that global warming will cause sea levels to rise between 30 cm and 100 cm over the next hundred years . |
| 4 | A study commissioned by the US Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that between 60 and 360 million people could go hungry as a direct result of the effects of climate change on wheat , rice , maize and soybean yields . |
| 5 | A new report by the US National Research Council , commissioned by the US Congress , has warned that children face disproportionate risks from pesticide residues in food . |