Example sentences of "uk [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We are immensely proud to be bringing it to the UK for the first time . |
| 4 | In the UK for the same period £1,600 million was spent on drugs , 50 per cent more than was spent in 1980 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | My children 's cousins are in the US or the UK with the best education facilities open to them . |
| 11 | In itself it is not a new idea , and it shares much with the combined method which was the basis for deaf education in the UK in the 19th century . |
| 12 | Although this figure was less than the current level of HK$91,000 million , it was almost three times the amount promised to China by the UK in the 1991 memorandum of understanding , which was the condition for Chinese approval for Hong Kong 's new airport |
| 13 | The resulting degree of demographic and socio-economic polarization at regional , sub-regional and local scales is the central feature of the many changes which have affected the geography of the UK in the second half of the twentieth century . |
| 14 | Thus , while the USA has shared the distinction of a comparatively low overall growth rate with the UK in the post-war period , the level of its labour productivity in manufacturing industry has consistently been 50 per cent higher than the UK [ Caves and Krause , 1980 ] . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , there are no plans to bring out a similar bundle in the UK in the near future . |
| 16 | That led the Government to conclude that environmental concerns were bound to constrain the amount of coal that could be used in the UK in the longer term . |
| 17 | Such a move might release the UK from the moral obligation to support any legislation stemming from it , but the Commission would still be entitled to bring forward legal proposals . |
| 18 | These amazing horns were neither described , illustrated nor found in skeletal remains in the UK before the eighteenth century and there is a theory that they resulted from Bakewell 's intensive inbreeding methods . |
| 19 | There has always been hostility in the UK to the cook-book approach to accounting standards . |
| 20 | However , there are in reality few prominent cases of the direct transfer of production from the UK to the Third World . |
| 21 | The Treasury instructed the Inland Revenue to obtain information from California-based companies in the UK on the probable impact of retaliatory measures which would be taken in the first instance against them if the US Government fails to resolve the continued burden of unitary tax on foreign-owned companies in the state by the end of the year . |
| 22 | Invited by the colony 's governor , Lu was the most senior Chinese official to visit Hong Kong since the military suppression of the pro-democracy movement in China in June 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ] , which had caused major strains between Hong Kong and the UK on the one hand and China on the other . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've included the UK on the short list , at this stage , ’ said Klepner , ‘ because Mark says that when the task force teams come to prepare the comparative cost studies in detail they will find that the economics of manufacturing certain new products will almost certainly favour production in the UK . |
| 24 | These cases highlight the need for vigilance in patients at risk and suggest that the epidemic of parvovirus in the UK over the latter part of 1992 is still continuing . |
| 25 | This three year study will explore empirically and theoretically the changing structure and significance of the linkages between corporate R&D and academic research in the UK over the last decade . |
| 26 | Much of the growth achieved in the UK over the past year can be attributed to the consultancy division , but worldwide , Andersen Consulting 's growth has slowed . |
| 27 | However , with the main continental European economies unlikely to grow any faster than the UK over the next year or so , exports are not going to be a powerful recovery force for the economy or corporate earnings through 1993 . |
| 28 | By 1979 energy consumption was almost back to the 1973 level but this trend was abruptly curtailed by the second oil shock which contributed to the worst recession in the UK since the Second World War . |
| 29 | Inevitably , in such a well-established industry — modern-style factoring has been in existence in the UK since the 1960s product improvement has come at the margins . |
| 30 | In the UK at the present time ( 1988 ) the balance of trade deficit has increased from £10.2 billion in 1987 to almost £20 billion in 1988 . |