Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] the usa " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aircraft had previously been flown in the USA as N190DH until a crash at Sellersburg , Indiana , on September 22 , 1987 , following which it was imported into the UK in 1989 and has only recently completed rebuild in the capable hands of Cliff Lovell , giving us a second airworthy DH.90 alongside Wessex Aviation & Transport 's G–AEDT . |
| 2 | Assurances had been given by the USA that he would receive a fair trial and would not face the death penalty . |
| 3 | A federal jury in Miami , Unites States , on Jan. 9 found a former Interior Minister , Col. Luis Arce Gómez , who had been extradited to the USA in December 1989 , guilty on two charges of drug-trafficking , each of which carried a potential maximum sentence of 15 years . |
| 4 | Late in 1991 they were completed and returned to Rochester and around the same time the Merlin 266 engine that had been rebuilt in the USA came home and was fitted to the airframe . |
| 5 | One such policy is ‘ set-aside ’ , preferably in the form of ‘ conservation agreements ’ such as have been made in the USA , whereby farmers are compensated for diverting land from arable cropping into pasture or woodland . |
| 6 | THIS will be the first time SummerSlam has been seen outside the USA and the leading WWF superstars will be in the ring in the centre of Wembley . |
| 7 | This will be the first time SummerSlam has been seen outside the USA . |
| 8 | This has occasionally been used within the USA , where political risk is minimal , to finance the development of a new oil well(s) or field . |
| 9 | The newly constructed R38 , the largest airship yet built , had been sold to the USA in 1919 , but was still based in Howden for training and trials . |
| 10 | The USA had negotiated compacts of free association with Belau , the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands as a means of providing limited self-government for these three elements of the UN Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands , a trusteeship comprising 5,000,000 sq km of the western Pacific , which had been administered by the USA since its establishment in 1947 . |
| 11 | This was a revolutionary idea which was not accepted in Britain until the 1950s although it had been rediscovered in the USA and applied there successfully much earlier . |
| 12 | He also pledged to unfreeze nearly $60,000,000 in assets belonging to the three countries which had been seized by the USA in June 1940 . |
| 13 | Atta had been arrested in the USA in 1987 , and in August 1990 the US Supreme Court had rejected his final appeal against extradition . |
| 14 | The first transaction involving a " permit to pollute " has been concluded in the USA . |
| 15 | More than 35,000 had fled Haiti since the coup but only 9,000 had been admitted to the USA to have their cases further examined . |
| 16 | This had been resisted by the USA in particular . |
| 17 | In the field of equal opportunities , the notion of contract compliance has been borrowed from the USA by some councils : the idea behind this is that a condition of local authority purchase from its suppliers may be expressed in terms of key employment practices , including the recruitment of ethnic minorities and women , and reasonable access for them to promotion within the enterprise . |
| 18 | An extradition warrant had been issued in the USA for a fourth defendant , the former Guinness director Thomas Ward , who was a US citizen . |
| 19 | As reported on Aug. 23 a $244,000,000 economic aid agreement had been signed with the USA to support the economic recovery programme , $130,000,000 of which would used towards payment of debt arrears . |
| 20 | Similar tactics have after all been deployed in the USA in respect of civil libertarian , social welfare and environmental issues , and more recently in Britain as part of an attempt to improve the position of recipients of state welfare benefits and other disadvantaged groups ( Prosser , 1983 ; Scheingold , 1974 ) . |
| 21 | It was made , but it was also found to be known already and to have been patented in the USA , along with Sontochin , by Winthrop . |
| 22 | Similar views on such teaching have also been expressed in the USA , where researchers have voiced concern about the preponderance of what they call ‘ frontal teaching ’ . |
| 23 | This type of decentralized model had already been advocated in the USA by , among others , the influential ) . |
| 24 | The " open door " policy had been devised by the USA in 1900 to prevent any one power dominating the weak Chinese government . |
| 25 | King Hussein , who had resisted calls from Moslem Brotherhood members of parliament and leftists to boycott the conference , said in an emotional speech on Oct. 12 at a conference of 2,500 elected officials in Amman that he had been assured by the USA that it would " do its utmost " to see that a transitional period of Palestinian " autonomy " in the occupied territories would be negotiated within a year of the conference opening , and announced Jordan 's unconditional acceptance of US terms for the proposed Middle East peace conference . |
| 26 | Those in the latter group — the reluctant early retirers — conform directly to what have been described in the USA as ‘ discouraged workers ' ( Sorrentino 1981 : 168 ; and for a discussion of the discouraged worker effect based on British Labour Force survey data , see Laczko 1987 ) . |
| 27 | The ACDA text reported that the main areas of continuing disagreement between the negotiating teams consisted of ( i ) definitions of and counting rules covering air-launched cruise missiles ( ALCMs ) : the USA wished only to include nuclear-armed missiles with a range in excess of 1,500 km with the assumption that a specified average number of missiles be attributed to each bomber , while the Soviet Union included " dual-capable " ( conventional/nuclear ) missiles with a range in excess of 600 km with the assumption that the maximum number of missiles be attributed to each type of bomber ; ( ii ) whether submarine-launched cruise missiles ( SLCMs ) should be limited under START ( or under a separate agreement , as had been suggested by the USA ) and if so whether on-site SLCM verification procedures should be deployed ( as the Soviet Union was suggesting ) or " non-binding declarations ' of numbers be issued ( as proposed by the USA ) ; and ( iii ) a " ban on the production , flight testing or modernization " of existing types of heavy ICBMs ( suggested by the USA ) , although a ban on new missile development was agreed , as were warhead and missile sub-limits in this category . |
| 28 | A dispute over the conflicting constitutional rights of press freedom ( enshrined within the First Amendment ) and the right of a defendant to a fair trial ( the Sixth Amendment ) arose from an attempt by Cable News Network ( CNN ) to broadcast tapes which it had obtained of telephone calls made by the deposed Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega , who had been imprisoned in the USA since January 1990 awaiting trial on drug trafficking charges . |
| 29 | Lo Cascio was said to have established links with Colombian and Venzuelan drug cartels , while the financial side of the operation was the work of Ulrich Bahl , a German businessman who for some months had been imprisoned in the USA on charges of passing forged banknotes . |