Example sentences of "uk [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spring had been mentioned as a possible time , the timing of the UK referendum on the European Community , and the incidence of Easter , were obviously factors in the situation . |
| 2 | A key feature of the confidence-boosting package was the passage by the UK Parliament of the British Nationality ( Hong Kong ) Act in July 1990 , which guaranteed British citizenship to 50,000 of the colony 's " key " citizens and their families . |
| 3 | The 7th Edinburgh Peace Festival will open on Saturday with a one-day conference organised by the United Nations Association at which the principal speakers will include George Robertson , MP , Labour 's foreign affairs spokesman ; Professor Paul Wilkinson , of the chair of international relations at St Andrews University , and Commander Robert Green , RN ( retd ) , the UK chairman of the international World Court Project . |
| 4 | A pipeline link between the UK and the Netherlands would make the UK part of the European gas grid . |
| 5 | The UK clearinghouse on the other hand makes no charge for its enquiry service nor for distribution of user education materials , but sells all its publications , including the index to its database , as separate items . |
| 6 | However , the supply of graduates is expected to become tighter over coming years , partly as a result of the lower UK birthrate in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 7 | Indeed , the UK experiment with the naive version of Friedmanite monetarism casts serious doubts on whether in fact a country can control its money supply growth rate , even under flexible exchange rates . |
| 8 | Would another referral to the Restrictive Practices Court now be possible , on the basis of the changes produced by a further 30 years of publishing , UK entry into the European Community , and this recent decision of the European Court of Justice ? |
| 9 | However , turnover increased in 1990 due to UK entry into the European Exchange Rate Mechanism , which implied a shift in longer term inflationary expectations and a fortiori long rates of interest , combined with the fact that the public sector finances had moved back into deficit . |
| 10 | Thus , the internationalization of the UK economy has increasingly meant investment in the advanced capitalist countries of Western Europe and the US until they have come to far outweigh UK investment in the Third World or in other Commonwealth countries . |
| 11 | As can be seen , the problems faced by UK industry during the protracted recession of the early 1990s caused the government to introduce a series of ad-hoc measures to help industry minimize the effects of the UBR , at least in the short run . |
| 12 | Applying average UK output/employee to the additional output of £836 million , yields an estimated 43,659 jobs which are dependent on the supply chain of Scotch Whisky companies . |
| 13 | Moves by the Government to incorporate the EC directive on money laundering into UK law at the earliest opportunity have received strong support from the Institute 's Financial Reporting and Auditing Group . |
| 14 | In City terms he could claim some credit , along with Peter Walker , as the father of modern unit trusts , while he made a personal profit of £1 million from the sale of Cannon Insurance , the UK vehicle of the disgraced Bernie Cornfeld . |
| 15 | For details please send an sae to UK rep at the following address : . |
| 16 | Sir Gordon Slynn , the UK judge at the European Court , warned that the government would have to comply with any order to halt work , if confirmed by the Court . |
| 17 | PEUGEOT Talbot , the UK subsidiary of the big French car-marker , yesterday warned shareholders that trading would remain difficult this year as it revealed a slump in annual profits . |
| 18 | Clive Harper , sales director of Bolsius Candles , the UK subsidiary of the large Dutch manufacturer ( which was once interested in buying Price 's itself ) , is sceptical . |
| 19 | It has been the most successful new beer product launched in the UK off-trade over the last decade . |
| 20 | The poor performance of the UK manufacturing sector relative to other industrialised nations ; its falling shares of export markets ; and the benefits of UK membership of the European Communities form the basis for extended argument . |
| 21 | The imminence of 1993 , in the context of UK membership of the European Community , and the active discussion of the feasibility of multi-national and multi-disciplinary partnerships ( the question no longer being whether but when and subject to what regulation they should be permitted ) makes this a fast-developing area of legal practice . |
| 22 | Despite the efforts of Rowlinson and his undoubtedly substantial contribution to the growth of the UK business over the last few years , Korn/Ferry has not yet adapted to the British corporate scene quite as successfully as Egon Zehnder or fellow members of the Big Four . |
| 23 | The insurance giant , which is a major employer in Ipswich , said success was achieved by a strong improvement in UK business in the past year . |
| 24 | They refused to join forces and issue a UK paperback of The Satanic Verses . |
| 25 | As noted earlier , in relation to Figure 3.1 , the service industries have been an important provider of jobs in the UK economy since the last century . |
| 26 | There have been significant changes in the UK economy over the last twenty years , with a steady growth of the service sector at the expense of industry . |
| 27 | How does this account of structural change in the UK economy in the 1970s and 1980s differ from the world-system account ? |
| 28 | The focus adopted by world-system theories in their account of structural change in the UK economy in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 29 | The outstanding feature of the UK economy in the 1970s and 1980s was the extraordinary setbacks met by the manufacturing sector . |
| 30 | One possible explanation for this result is that the trend rate of growth in the UK economy in the 1970s and early 1980s was much lower than elsewhere , ensuring that the total world portfolio rose more rapidly than the share held within the UK . |