Example sentences of "be [verb] in the uk " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chairman Trevor Wheatley said yesterday : ‘ The recovery we are seeing in the UK and US is fragile , though our order books are 20pc up on this time last year . |
| 2 | Coaching , however , has not been developed in the UK as much as it should have been . |
| 3 | This link , which has been developed in the UK and Ireland , is unique within the European Community and has enabled insurance companies and pension funds to operate with greater freedom which in turn has resulted in greater value for the consumer . |
| 4 | The two major operations of the Group are situated in the UK and Indonesia . |
| 5 | Members must have been trading in the UK for at least two years and must disclose their turnover and profits — lack of profits are not a bar to membership however , he added , because ‘ we would hate to disallow the big international business machine companies ’ . |
| 6 | Minichips are the miniature version of CHP ; 508 units have been installed in the UK at 337 sites , potential sites number 4,200 . |
| 7 | Private firms are moving into the field — there are two windpower consortia and a tidal power consortium ( involving DEC , McAlpines and Taylor Woodrow amongst others — along with the CEGB and British Aerospace ) and many smaller firms in the solar field : some 20,000 solar collector units have been installed in the UK so far . |
| 8 | Most of his organic beers are brewed in the UK including Scottish Golden Promise from Edinburgh 's Caledonian Brewery , Clifton Dark Ale , Hartcliffe Bitter and Saxon Ale flavoured with borage and honey from Ross in Bristol , and Bottle Green Organic Porter . |
| 9 | Things have been happening in the UK . |
| 10 | There is an excellent course of standardised tuition which has been organised in the UK by the Royal Yachting Association ( RYA ) . |
| 11 | Thus , if Nissan gains market share at the expense of cars which would have been manufactured in the UK anyway , problems may be caused for other companies , especially Rover which relies principally on the UK market for its sales . |
| 12 | Where this has been done in the UK these natural monopolies are called nationalized industries , and we discuss them more fully in the next chapter . |
| 13 | Although a small number of inter-denominational schools have been built in the UK , they are normally the result of neighbouring schools coming together from weakness and threat of closure . |
| 14 | The deal , said by sources to be ‘ very valuable to Pyramid , ’ will also allow ICL to OEM the company 's high-end MIServer ES machines — this follows on from an informal Pyramid-ICL sales teaming that has been operating in the UK for the last few months . |
| 15 | Under Britain 's liberal regime vast acquisitions have been made in the UK by Credit Lyonnais , the Elf Aquitaine state-controlled oil group and Thomson CSF in defence electronics . |
| 16 | He rejected the FoE Scotland study as ‘ alarmist ’ , down-played damage to forests in West Germany as ‘ very small ’ and stated that ‘ no damage ’ had been seen in the UK . |
| 17 | The task of interpreting has been seen in the UK only in terms of social service , often voluntary , but never in an enabling framework . |
| 18 | No such limits are applied in the UK . |
| 19 | This will depend whether ( a ) the Nissan cars are for export to the EC , ( b ) they are sold in the UK to customers who would otherwise have purchased an imported car or ( c ) they are sold in the UK to customers who would otherwise have bought a car produced in the UK by one of the other UK manufacturers . |
| 20 | This will depend whether ( a ) the Nissan cars are for export to the EC , ( b ) they are sold in the UK to customers who would otherwise have purchased an imported car or ( c ) they are sold in the UK to customers who would otherwise have bought a car produced in the UK by one of the other UK manufacturers . |
| 21 | They have been used in the UK for many years and legislation allows the addition of 5 per cent of CBE fats ( about 15 per cent of the fat phase ) , and the product can still be called chocolate . |
| 22 | All of this may be possible in theory , but it is not an approach which has ever been used in the UK . |
| 23 | Since 205 of those have been sold in the UK so far this year , the Brooklands is no shot in the dark . |
| 24 | Already 10 systems have been sold in the UK , mainly to local authorities , and another 140 have been installed in mainland Europe . |
| 25 | Since 1 January 1993 , those services described in Sch 3 , VATA 1983 , supplied to non-EC recipients , are supplied in the country where the recipient belongs , and fall outside the scope of UK VAT ; supplies to EC recipients for the purpose of the recipient 's VAT registered business are supplied in the member state where the recipient belongs , and are outside the scope of UK VAT ; and supplies to EC recipients for other purposes are supplied in the UK and are subject to standard-rated VAT . |
| 26 | 5.3 ( iii ) macroeconomic forecasts : generalised national forecasts for trends in Gross Domestic Product ( GDP ) , investment , consumption and employment are produced in the UK by the National Institute for Economic and Social Research ( NIESR ) , by the Bank of England , the Henley Centre for Forecasting , the London Business School , and by stockbroking firms , other universities etc . |
| 27 | 34 million cases are produced in the UK , of which over 80% is exported . |
| 28 | Most significant of all has been the fact that it is now possible for banks to engage in a full range of securities related business along the same lines as the German universal banks , a practice which had hitherto been avoided in the UK through the imposition of self-imposed constraints . |
| 29 | Investigators , or Inspectors of Accidents as they are called in the UK , must have the authority to enter private property in order to examine the wreckage , whether it be a farmer 's field of barley , someone 's backyard or even — as has happened — the roof of somebody 's house . |
| 30 | Over 40 per cent of these are born in the UK ( Gordon and Newnham , 1986 , p. 6 ) and a very substantial proportion of Asian and Afro-Caribbean children in British schools are now British born . |