Example sentences of "states [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But prolonged recession undermined his support and Canadians blamed widespread unemployment on the loss of jobs to the United States through a free-trade agreement Mr Mulroney signed in 1988 . |
| 2 | It warned the United States through the Indian ambassador to the United Nations that if this advance continued , that China would intervene . |
| 3 | So Sullivan recommended rather that the Shah enter the States through an obscure air force base in either Maine or South Caroline , and best of all at night , . |
| 4 | The diffusion of one innovation in particular , originating in the United States between the two world wars , appears to have assisted in ameliorating this problem . |
| 5 | So the ideal as far as federal government is concerned is they , they devise policy guidelines and they provide financial inducements to states to implement various programmes but when it comes down to it they run up against the rock of the constitution and the constitution says that the states derive their authority from this sacred document and they are not to be tampered with and the consequence is that America has , not only a federal government , but fifty state governments er and those state governments are large enterprises which enjoy wide initiative and they contributors , contribute to the divi diversity of the United States as a political system . |
| 6 | A recent poll showed that only 2% of Germans regarded the United States as a suitable model for their newly united nation — Switzerland topped the pops . |
| 7 | Wu himself spent 19 years incarcerated ( for expressing ‘ counter-revolutionary ’ opinion ) , beaten , tortured and starved before going to the United States as a visiting professor . |
| 8 | He singled out the United States as a leading supporter of the democratic process in Congo , but described French support as " measured " . |
| 9 | The fact that Guatemala in 1954 had ‘ returned from Communism ’ ( and was regarded by the United States as the first country to do so ) increased Soviet reluctance to be perceived to be experiencing another ‘ loss ’ in the area ( even though they did not accept that Castro was embarking on a road towards Communism ) . |
| 10 | The newsreader mentioned a child who had gone to the States for a life-saving operation , a vital double transplant that had never been done in Britain . |
| 11 | We can not win the Ryder Cup , the Curtis Cup , the Walker Cup in the United States for the first time again . |
| 12 | Useful pedigree CHICAGO ( AP ) — The Queen of England will race a horse in the United States for the first time in 35 years at Arlington International Racecourse . |
| 13 | You visited the United States for the first time in 1963 . |
| 14 | In 1975 , Laura visited the United States for the first time to see the San Francisco venture for herself . |
| 15 | The month-long finals , to be staged in the United States for the first time , will take place in nine cities , beginning on 17 June , 1994 . |
| 16 | JIM COURIER redeemed himself for past Davis Cup failures by beating Switzerland 's Jakob Hlasek in Fort Worth , Texas last night to clinch the Cup for the United States for the 30th time since 1900 . |
| 17 | The University has already established a ‘ Not for Profit ’ Corporation in the United States for the tax-efficient transmission of funds from the US to the University . |
| 18 | Mr Brown , whose hits include ‘ Do n't Be Cool ’ , is returning to the United States for an over-all specialist health check-up when he finishes his remaining dates in Japan and Hawaii . |
| 19 | Industrialisation was prompted by the failures of Europe and the United States during the Great Depression and the Second world war , leading to import substitution , rather than a conscious development policy . |
| 20 | During an , a very intensive training and organization period in the United States during the first half of nineteen forty three , and that does sound a long time ago , er we er the Three-Ninetieth Bomb Group , under the able direction of Colonel , er arrived at Parham , right here , in July nineteen forty three . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , inflation rose for some months , and production continued to grow in all major economies except the United States during the first half of 1974 . |
| 22 | In context the psychoanalysis in order to explain erm Wilson 's actions and er , attitudes in the pres presidency of the United States during the First World War , basically con concentrates on erm . |
| 23 | This dilemma has been exacerbated as a result of the development of thermonuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction and is associated with the nuclear arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War from the 1940s to the 1980s . |
| 24 | Thus , in the southern United States after the Civil War , ‘ experience has shown that it is doubtful whether any profit can accrue to a cultivator whose annual crop is less than fifty bales … |
| 25 | gonorrhoea was now the commonest communicable disease in the United States after the common cold , and its incidence was rising ; |
| 26 | There were hints that they too saw signs in our future ; in second year our history teacher told us that things were easier now for Catholics than they had ever been , that we could have a place in the world , that there was even a chance that a Catholic would be President of the United States after the next election . |
| 27 | The South does n't stand out in the resulting map ( figure 5.2 ) , although none of the States of the former Confederacy falls in the top 40 per cent on their ranking , except Florida whose population character and structure has changed very substantially in recent decades as a result of immigration , especially of the elderly . |
| 28 | The States of the Northern Tier |
| 29 | From its European origins as a liberal anti-Marxist theory , picked up in practical politics mainly by parties and movements of the right , elite theory metamorphosed in the United States into a radical/left-leaning critique of pluralism . |
| 30 | It was he who , with others in the legendary Room 40 at the Admiralty under the direction of Sir Alfred Ewing ( later to be Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh University ) , had decoded the famous Zimmermann telegram which played its part in bringing the United States into the First World War . |