Example sentences of "parts of the united states " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sensational media and police reports in 1989 seemed to suggest an increased use of ‘ crack ’ among young people in parts of south London , Liverpool , and Birmingham — with attendant fears that this particularly dangerous substance might become widespread , as it was reported to be in parts of the United States . |
| 2 | Similar legislation exists in parts of the United States , and Face could also have mentioned legislative and judicial changes in the law in Sweden , Switzerland , and Norway . |
| 3 | It is certainly not a typical European centralised system along the lines of France , Italy or Sweden ; nor is it a carefully defined mixed economy like West Germany , where curriculum is centralised , but under the aegis of regional parliaments ; nor is it a highly localised system with a multiplicity of small school districts , as in parts of the United States . |
| 4 | The rich who are flooding into parts of northern New Mexico include British , French , German and Arabs as well as ‘ Anglos ’ from other parts of the United States . |
| 5 | Yet in some parts of the United States , as in Texas , tens of thousands of rattlesnakes are rounded up , killed , skinned and often eaten at barbecues . |
| 6 | ‘ I have a number of houses in various parts of the United States . |
| 7 | The debate flourishes in many parts of the United States , with south Florida out in front . |
| 8 | The events associated with the prisoners ' rights movement that flourished for a time in the late 1960s and early 1970s in parts of the United States , Scandinavia and Britain had by the early 1980s largely disappeared without trace . |
| 9 | This service is provided by a central government department in New Zealand , by the state governments in Australia , by local government in Britain , and by local ad hoc bodies in many parts of the United States and Canada ( Bowman and Hampton 1983 ) . |
| 10 | thought that , … in preference to the suggestion that there might be more frequent recommendations for the exercise of the Royal Prerogative , it might be possible to introduce a system similar to that adopted in some parts of the United States under which a distinction was made between murder in the first and second degree , the death penalty being reserved for cases of the former kind . |
| 11 | Parole was not a new idea , having existed in parts of the United States since early in the twentieth century , and had been canvassed down the years . |
| 12 | Grants to State governments to cover parts of the costs of welfare and other programmes ( such as those for the construction of the Inter-State Highway system ) comprise only one of the elements of Federal spending which has an uneven impact on the various parts of the United States . |
| 13 | Growth there complemented decline elsewhere , notably in the traditional manufacturing core of the country 's northeast : this led to the development of the shorthand term Sunbelt:Frostbelt ( or Sunbelt:Snowbelt , or Sunbelt:Rustbelt ) to represent the shift of manufacturing jobs away from the climatically less attractive parts of the United States and towards those earlier identified by Ullman ( 1954 ) as having attractive climates . |
| 14 | It can be grown in all parts of the United States . |
| 15 | In the case of another much-studied variable , ( r ) , we find in England ( but not in many parts of the United States ) that absence of post-vocalic [ r ] is characteristic of high-status speech and is moreover categorical except in some ( mainly ) western areas . |
| 16 | Secondly , many of the late nineteenth-century American geologists , who provided much of the basis of systematic geomorphology , were engaged in surveying the semi-arid western parts of the United States . |
| 17 | This may be a reasonable attitude in certain circumstances , e.g. in the denudation of spoil tips or the dissection of incoherent sandstones in the semi-arid western parts of the United States , but it is demonstrably wrong in many areas and likely to be wrong in many others . |