Example sentences of "uk [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | If a successful sponsorship deal is arranged , the Liberator will be based in the UK for a two year period , during which time it would be a major attraction at the various events marking the 50th Anniversary of the US 8th Air Force 's arrival in the UK . |
2 | In drawing comparisons between the state of credit marketing in the US and her , I am mindful that I have been in the UK for a long time and of that famous Bacon quote , ‘ Time is the greatest innovator ’ . |
3 | The XJ 40 had done 10,000 miles and he was glad of an excuse to take it back to the UK for a proper service . |
4 | It emerged in late August that he had privately left the UK for a secret destination in Europe . |
5 | Five new channels offering Digital Stereo Sound and , with the new D-Mac transmission system , improved picture quality will be available in the UK for the first time . |
6 | Unikix , the 18-month-old CICS-for-Unix product pioneered by Unicorn Systems Inc and now owned by Groupe Bull SA , is now being launched into the UK for the first time by Brentford , Middlesex-based Bull Information Systems Ltd . |
7 | We are immensely proud to be bringing it to the UK for the first time . |
8 | In the UK for the same period £1,600 million was spent on drugs , 50 per cent more than was spent in 1980 . |
9 | THE FAT LADY SINGS take leave of the UK for an American tour after a one-off date to open a new concert venue . |
10 | Undertaking work in the UK for an overseas client |
11 | The tension between the rights of parents , of their children , and of the state , which attracted increasing legislative attention in the UK during the nineteenth century , continues to be demonstrated in the concerns of pressure groups in recent years . |
12 | This project extends previous research on the office development cycle to investigate all sectors of building and construction in the UK during the post-war period . |
13 | Renault has played an important role in this change , with the popularity of Renault diesel engines reflected in the way diesel versions accounted for 16% of all Clio sales in the UK during the last quarter of 1992 . |
14 | He was arrested in 1983 in New York , but an attempt to extradite him to the UK as a convicted criminal failed when a judge ruled that his crime was political . |
15 | Scotland was about to lose its whizz kid , however , for Hunter succumbed to a bit of crafty recruiting at the Jersey convention in 1989 and migrated to England with his wife Lesley to join BP Oil UK as a senior journalist at Hemel Hempstead , editing Distributor magazine and acting as deputy editor of BP Oil News . |
16 | These relationships are particularly important since some writers present comparatively low absolute wage levels in the UK as a competitive advantage instead of as a penalty for overall poor performance [ Williams et al. , 1983 ] . |
17 | In an increasingly de-regulated European market , companies based in Continental Europe are likely to view the UK as a considerable opportunity and market their products here . |
18 | ‘ This would obviously be very bad news for the UK — not only in terms of our leverage , but also in terms of the attraction of the UK as a sound investment plank . |
19 | However , Urquhart ( 1983 ) argues that this estimate ignores the contribution of polonium-210 ( used by the USA and UK as an irreplaceable initiator for starting the chain reaction at the heart of their first atomic bombs ) to the health effects and that the radiation-induced cancer deaths and hereditary effects would have been considerably higher . |
20 | Having provided a theoretical framework of control , we can now examine the types of controls employed , using the UK as an obvious example . |
21 | In the 1960s at Manchester University , where dental materials science was first established in the UK as an academic discipline , Dennis C. Smith developed the first adhesive dental cement , based on poly ( acrylic acid ) . |
22 | ‘ If the killings go on , there 's going to be a big rethink in the UK about the whole question of sporting links with South Africa . ’ |
23 | R v Secretary of State for Home Department , Ex parte Kuku ; CA ( Woolf , Nicholls and Staughton LJJ ) ; 28 Sept 1989 It is highly desirable that foreign nationals to whom r 10 of the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules HC 169 applies should not only by warned by the Home Office of the necessity under s 3(4) of the Immigration Act 1971 of obtaining a visa if seeking re-entry to the UK after a short visit abroad , but that that warning should take the form of a document attached to the foreign national 's passport , so there is no question of any misapprehension . |
24 | Trade and Industry Secretary , Peter Lilley , announced that Britain will still be able to down a pint after 1992 , despite some attempts by Brussels to bring the UK into the metric system . |
25 | In February 1984 , the SS Elgaren sailed from the UK with a precious cargo on board , Oxford G–AITF ( formerly RAF ED920 ) . |
26 | ‘ The importance of diversity in programmes and recognition of the cultures of different parts of the UK with a special service for Scotland run right through the document like letters through a stick of rock . ’ |
27 | My children 's cousins are in the US or the UK with the best education facilities open to them . |
28 | Such a view of family life coincided in the UK with an intense concentration during the 1950s on the mother as the primary guarantor of children 's health and welfare ( Oakley , 1981 ; Wilson , 1977 ) and aligns comfortably with the period 's economic boom and reconstructionist philosophy . |
29 | The training , which has yet to take place in the UK in a formal way , will draw on what has been written on language techniques and the specific situation of the deaf community . |
30 | Ecstasy first hit the UK in a big way around 1988 . |