Example sentences of "uk [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 5.4 shows that US borrowers , dominant until recently , have partly withdrawn leaving Japanese and to a lesser extent UK institutions as the main issuers . |
| 2 | The Bank said yesterday it did not believe there was any case for giving extra compensation to UK depositors beyond the statutory deposit protection scheme . |
| 3 | It also said it did not believe there was a case for giving additional compensation to UK depositors beyond the statutory deposit protection scheme . |
| 4 | Katy Miles and Duncan Brooks achieved two of only five distinctions awarded from 618 UK candidates in the recent national Securities Institute Exams . |
| 5 | The British Prime Minister , John Major , has announced a package of government measures to encourage technology transfer from UK companies to the developing world . |
| 6 | The acquisitions made by UK companies through the 1980s , particularly within the US , raised the total overseas exposure at the corporate earnings level to around 50% . |
| 7 | The rise is one of the largest percentage rises to be awarded to directors of UK companies in the new round of boardroom wage negotiations . |
| 8 | Of the eleven UK companies in the top 200 , ICI is highest placed at 47 . |
| 9 | The deadline passed on Feb. 28 for Hong Kong citizens to apply for a " first tranche " of allocations of UK passports under the British Nationality ( Hong Kong ) Act , introduced in April 1990 as a confidence-building measure after the unrest in China in the previous year [ see p. 37376 ] , and enacted in July . |
| 10 | The justification for the inclusion of the lagged real current account balance of payments surplus , , is that it reflects the concern of successive UK governments with the external balance ; a large surplus encourages ( or at least allows ) a more expansionary monetary policy , while a large deficit tends to bring about a contractionary one . |
| 11 | In 1964 , when Pople left the UK for the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh , as it was then called , his departure inspired one popular British newspaper to the headline Another brain down the drain , but given the lamentable levels of financial support by successive UK governments for the theoretical research in which Pople was to excel , it is unlikely he could have achieved so much without moving . |
| 12 | Unlike other UK retailers in the Canadian market — Boots came out last year and Marks & Spencer has been struggling to break even — WH Smith has shown profits growth . |
| 13 | Andrew , of Whittinghame Drive , Kelvindale , senior non-commissioned officer of his school 's Combined Cadet Force air force section , will also spend a fortnight in North America , after winning one of just 12 places for UK cadets on the International Air Cadet Exchange Scheme . |
| 14 | However , particular groups of UK taxpayers at the lowest and highest taxable income scales did suffer unusually high marginal rates during the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 15 | Gerald Coulson has created Night of the Hunter to raise the final funds needed to put a Blenheim back into UK skies by the late spring of 1993 . |
| 16 | A NORTH West architectural partnership has been placed among the UK greats by the Royal Iinstitution of Chartered Surveyors for its conservation work in Liverpool 8 . |
| 17 | A NORTH WEST architectural partnership has been placed among the UK greats by the national Royal Iinstitution Chartered Surveyors for its conservation work in Liverpool 8 . |
| 18 | These are defined in terms of UK qualifications in the relevant chapters of this prospectus . |
| 19 | ( From : ‘ Putting Our Own House In Order ’ published by the UK members of the European Environmental Bureau , 1992 ) |
| 20 | ( From : ‘ Putting Our Own House In Order ’ published by the UK members of the European Environmental Bureau , 1992 ) |
| 21 | Peru too , looked good at one time and should have led UK publishers into the Andean Pact countries , but in fact the shining path has led elsewhere . |
| 22 | Available only from the UK publishers at the above address , the diskette version costs £5.50 including inland p&p , or £11 overseas , including air mail postage and packing . |
| 23 | He added that Virgin was taking up the matter of the fairness of take-off and landing slots at UK airports with the European Commission . |