Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [to-vb] the united " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I did take the twins away all summer then Masquerade would be taken to a boatyard in Florida , so I now signed the necessary customs forms and the insurance waiver and the dozen other pieces of paper that would be needed to keep the United States government and the delivery company happy . |
| 2 | Given that the second Tory recession is set to cost 550,000 manufacturing jobs and 100,000 companies and is set to put the United Kingdom at the bottom of the European Community league table on under-investment and employment in 1992 , will the right hon. Gentleman now admit that urgent action is needed to boost employment in Britain to take us out of this situation ? |
| 3 | Although its text nowhere mentions the Hague Convention , the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 was enacted to enable the United Kingdom to ratify the Convention . |
| 4 | By the time that the decision was taken to challenge the United States by the installation of missiles in Cuba ( probably in early July 1962 ) the USSR had been forced to revise its optimistic view . |
| 5 | Certainly he was determined to dissociate the United States from any settlement which made concessions to the communists . |
| 6 | Ali Rajavi , a first secretary at the Iranian embassy in London , was ordered to leave the United Kingdom by Aug. 25 , as announced on Aug. 14 , in retaliation for the expulsion in July of Geoffrey Brammer , a UK diplomat in Tehran [ see also p. 39027 ] ; on Aug. 15 the Iranian government ordered an Indian national employed as an accountant at the UK embassy in Tehran and two UK citizens to leave the country within one week , accusing them of involvement in " illegal activities " . |