Example sentences of "were [verb] in the united " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was against expectations and conceptions such as these that two of the early surveys were developed in the United States — the market research survey and the pre-election poll . |
| 2 | In the first two months of the year a total of 4,000,000 trees were uprooted in the United Kingdom and France , and in the latter fires in late February on the Côte d'Azur and in Corsica destroyed over 1,500 hectares of forest . |
| 3 | Although incidence of neonatal kidnapping in the UK is rare , 68 cases were reported in the United States between 1983 and 1991 . |
| 4 | Mass protests were reported in the United Arab Emirates and in Iran , where leaders described the mosque 's destruction as " an insult " to Moslems . |
| 5 | Women 's sanitary protection last came under scrutiny with the Toxic Shock Syndrome , a disease where 2,200 cases were reported in the United States up to June 1983 proving fatal in 5% of instances between 1976 and 1982 . |
| 6 | It includes people who were domiciled in the United Kingdom on or after 10 December 1974 and within the three years immediately preceding the relevant time . |
| 7 | The earliest attempts to process data by means of an electromechanical device were made in the United States by Herman Hollerith in the 1890's . |
| 8 | POP superstar Michael Jackson flew out of Singapore today bound for Taipei , airport officials said , as new attacks against him over alleged child abuse were made in the United States . |
| 9 | Some haematologists thus believe that all blood should be routinely filtered , and something like four million filters were used in the United States last year . |
| 10 | Between 1980 and the end of 1987 approximately 1.1 million local authority and new town houses were sold in the United Kingdom . |
| 11 | These were innovated in the United States , where the innovating exchanges quickly built up a form of " first mover advantage " via endogenous economies of scale , which gave them an impregnable position in the market for their respective instruments within a very short span of time . |
| 12 | However , if the condition in question were designed to ensure that all operators of fishing vessels were based in the United Kingdom , it would inhibit the export of fish by British flag vessels to other member states and so constitute a breach of article 34 of the E.E.C . |
| 13 | I know , Mr Holly … you were born in the United Kingdom , you were.brought up there , you were in possession of a valid British passport when you travelled to Moscow . |
| 14 | In 1990 , nearly 500,000 vehicles were stolen in the United Kingdom — one every minute of the night and day . |
| 15 | In the first six weeks of this year , 10,500 redundancies were announced in the United Kingdom financial sector . |
| 16 | A total of 47 people were killed in the United Kingdom when hurricane-force winds of over 100 mph swept through north-western Europe on Jan. 25 . |
| 17 | These nuances were lost in the United Kingdom , where rock 'n' roll was seen as another exotic American import like chewing-gum or cowboy films ; its explosive sexuality was seen as the key selling point of this product like the X-tail-fin on a new Ford — rather than as a process , and was thus isolated and marketed accordingly . |
| 18 | I can not forecast future plantings , but between 1984 and 1990 , some 16,000 miles of hedgerow were planted in the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | The first pre-retirement courses were held in the United States in 1949 , but it is only in the last ten to fifteen years that the need for them has been recognised in the United Kingdom . |