Example sentences of "was [verb] in the united " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first ‘ fast breeder ’ reactor was developed in the United States in the 1950s . |
| 2 | Two programmes that attracted particular attention were the Minnesota smoking prevention programme , which was developed in the United States in the early 1980s , and the family smoking education project , which was developed in Norway as part of a comprehensive five year research programme examining smoking among Norwegian schoolchildren . |
| 3 | I ) A similar process was occurring in the United States , though the term in use over there , " instructional technology " , is worth noting . |
| 4 | Also in 1965 the Environmental Science Services Administration ( ESSA ) was instituted in the United States and its concern with the interactions among air , sea and earth and between the upper and lower atmosphere embraces the scope of physical geography , although a physical geographer was not significantly involved in the early stages ( Hare , 1966 ) . |
| 5 | A total of 5,700 million pounds in weight of chemicals was discharged in the United States in 1989 . |
| 6 | Liebowitz and Horowitz ( 1968 ) suggested that what was happening in the United States at the time , was a process of merging of politics and social deviance such that they were becoming indistinguishable . |
| 7 | Excluded property which is not to be included in the estate of a person ( which means the aggregate of all the property to which that person is beneficially entitled including settled property in which he has an interest in possession ) immediately before his death embraces for CTT purposes : ( a ) settled property situated outside the United Kingdom unless the settlor was domiciled in the United Kingdom at the time the settlement was made ; and ( b ) securities issued by the Treasury subject to the condition that they shall be exempt from taxation while in the beneficial ownership of persons neither domiciled nor ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom provided in the case of settled property either that such . |
| 8 | It can also be important for the purposes of the provisions which require persons who were concerned with the making of settlements to notify the Revenue when they believe that the settlor was domiciled in the United Kingdom and the trustees of the settlement are not , or will not be , resident in the United Kingdom ( see IHTA 1984 , s218 ) . |
| 9 | Where property comprised in a settlement is situate outside the United Kingdom , the property is excluded property unless the settlor was domiciled in the United Kingdom at the time the settlement was made ( IHTA 1984 , s48(3) ) . |
| 10 | This was granted in the United Kingdom with a majority of eight votes . |
| 11 | What work was done in the United Kingdom on raiding and amphibious operations had been mainly carried out by the Inter-Service Training and Development Centre ( ISTDC ) and the Royal Marines ' Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation ( MNBDO ) , the Royal Navy being responsible for amphibious operations . |
| 12 | If the product was made in the United States and brought to France before being brought to England , then the person who imported it into France is liable . |
| 13 | Her husband was taxed in the United States . |
| 14 | AZT was approved in the United States in 1987 for use after symptoms of AIDS have appeared , after a controlled trial was brought prematurely to an end when it emerged that the treated group was doing better than the placebo groups . |
| 15 | Mrs Clinton , the new First Lady , has supported the magazine since it was founded in the United States in 1972 , where it has been regarded as a valuable weapon in the campaign for women 's liberation . |
| 16 | President Roosevelt was re-elected in the United States of America , in November 1940 , for a further term of four years , so the ‘ lend-lease ’ arrangements were then undertaken to enable Britain to receive much needed supplies . |
| 17 | And figures for the country of birth of heads of household give only a rough estimate of ethnic minority populations , as some members of ethnic minorities live in households whose head was born in the United Kingdom , and some of those living in households whose head was born outside the United Kingdom do not belong to ethnic minorities . |
| 18 | The President was amused , conceding that not much cricket or rugby was played in the United States , but as a sports fan himself he understood — especially as a Southerner , aware of the significance of sport in the Deep South , and of the fact that I came from an ever Deeper South than he did … |
| 19 | When a minimum wage was introduced in the United States , it caused only large increases in black unemployment . |
| 20 | The British Nationality ( Hong Kong ) Bill was introduced in the United Kingdom House of Commons on April 4 , and approved at its second reading on April 19 , following the announcement in December 1989 by Douglas Hurd , the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , that full British citizenship would be given to some 225,000 people in the colony in order to restore confidence there in the wake of the military repression of pro-democracy demonstrations in China in May-June 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ; 37122 ] . |
| 21 | The first state-run programme of unemployment insurance was introduced in the United Kingdom by the Liberal government in 1911 , with flat rates of benefit and contributions by employers , employees and the state . |
| 22 | The same action was taken in the United Kingdom only on 1 October 1975 , and then by the manufacturer , ICI , not by CSM . |
| 23 | Forty-two countries began eradication programmes and between 1957 and 1969 eradication was achieved in the United States , most of Europe , much of the Middle East , parts of the Caribbean and South America and from the islands of Taiwan and Mauritius . |
| 24 | Only a few years before alcohol prohibition was repealed in the United States in 1933 , public sentiment was similarly dominated by the opinions of the country 's prohibitionist leaders . |
| 25 | The unanimous decision found the UK in breach of Article 10 guaranteeing freedom of expression when it had banned the Observer , Guardian , and Sunday Times newspapers from printing extracts from the book after it was published in the United States in July 1987 . |
| 26 | This cuts out the travel agent and was pioneered in the United Kingdom by the Danish firm Tjaebourg ( which also has its own airline , Stirling Airways ) . |
| 27 | He added that the children 's father was working in the United States . |
| 28 | Reprocessing of non-military nuclear fuel was banned in the United States by President Jimmy Carter in 1977 . |