Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the us " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Telecommunications Plc says that the bid by AT&T Co to operate in the UK could speed liberalisation of the key North Atlantic telecommunications route , and reckons that the matter could be settled within months ; AT&T says that it would much preferred to have entered the UK market with a local partner but saw no prospect of that ( it had been negotiating with Cable & Wireless Plc for a stake in Mercury Communications Ltd ; meanwhile each side throws regulatory brickbats at the other , with AT&T complaining that it has to deal — on a confidential basis — with British Telecom on interconnect and access charges where in the US , charges are much lower and have to be applied within the operator 's own business as well — and that simply applying for a licence in the UK costs $70,000 against just $610 in the US ; British Telecom complains that it was n't allowed to increase its 20% stake in McCaw Cellular Communications Inc and achieve a management position — and likely would be barred from buying MCI Communications Inc , where AT&T would be free to buy Vodafone Group Plc — or even Mercury , outright , if it wanted to . |
| 2 | Founder Mark Glover promised to continue the group 's work : " Our efforts to continue the campaign may well be better concentrated elsewhere , on the continent or in the US . " |
| 3 | They still feature less prominently in the portfolios of private investors in the UK than , for instance , on the continent or in the US , but they are becoming increasingly popular here too . |
| 4 | ( ii ) In his response to McCreery 's suggestion that " remainder of surrendered personnel and refugees " in 5 Corps area should be evacuated either to Italy or to the US Zone of Austria under SHAEF/12th Army Group , Robertson dealt only with surrendered personnel . |
| 5 | Many of the boats carrying Haitians were intercepted by US Coast Guard vessels operating in the area and their occupants held either on board or at the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay on Cuba where an emergency refugee camp was set up . |
| 6 | Chief Justice William Rehnquist explained the Supreme Court ruling on the basis that , while the abduction might be " shocking " and might have violated international law , it was not prohibited either by the extradition treaty or by the US constitution . |
| 7 | As an illustration of this negative relationship Lucas notes that for the US his estimate of the variance of aggregate demand is 0.00064 , while for Argentina it is more than 20 times higher at 0.01555 ; the estimate of β 1 for the US is 0.910 , whereas for Argentina it is much lower at 0.011 . |
| 8 | Levy and Sarrat argued that as the US market index had a mean return of 12.1 per cent and a standard deviation of 12.1 per cent , international diversification improved portfolio characteristics by reducing risk . |
| 9 | To some extent this was inevitable given the US decision to operate through a civilian Japanese administration rather than through the US military command . |
| 10 | Breaking up large firms plays no significant part in UK competition policy although in the US the telecommunications company AT & T was split up into regional competitors . |
| 11 | Once again the newspaper cartoon was a favourite Iraqi medium for attacking the opposition , although in the US and other Western countries an independent press was more concerned with circulation than serving any political or military purpose . |
| 12 | The convenience of the deal is underlined by the fact that in the US , Sun shares 40% of Novell 's platinum and gold reseller channel in any case . |
| 13 | While Unix Labs 's value-added reseller and equity relationship with Chorus Systemes SA has prompted speculation that the Chorus microkernel would be used as a matter of course , Miracle said that in the US , and certainly in government circles , Carnegie Mellon University 's Mach was a popular choice . |
| 14 | It is interesting to note that in the US , Congress has expressed an overriding concern for fairness in the securities markets . |
| 15 | If the trend continues , 1989 will be the first year in which UK companies have made more acquisitions in continental Europe than in the US . |
| 16 | Only one in 500 engineers in the UK is a woman and progress is much slower than in the US where the percentage has grown from 0–2 in the 1960s , when the Civil Rights movement stirred , to 10 per cent and is growing apace . |
| 17 | But with the wearing of seatbelts now a legal requirement in many European countries and with adherence rates generally high ( much higher than in the US ) , the airbag is poised to make a significant contribution to lessening the head and chest injuries that even restrained drivers can suffer through impact with the steering wheel . |
| 18 | ‘ Customers need more hand-holding than in the US . ’ |
| 19 | There are plenty of reasons why such a result is less likely in the UK than in the US , none why it is impossible . |
| 20 | Such radical criticism appears to have gained less support in Britain than in the US and I would suggest that the NHS is largely responsible for this . |
| 21 | While he said the AS/400 may well be taken up at existing IBM Corp sites and by medium-sized firms , he feels larger organisations will be less eager in Europe than in the US . |
| 22 | Permission to offer switched services is unlikely to be denied , but the resale of International Virtual Network services will present more problems , as US carriers feel that they have been denied reciprocal access to the UK , where interconnect , access-deficit and leased line charges are higher than in the US . |
| 23 | While he said the AS/400 may well be taken up at existing IBM Corp sites and by medium-sized firms , he feels larger organisations will be less eager in Europe than in the US . |
| 24 | The figures are Dataquest estimates of what a buyer actually pays after standard retail discounts , as opposed to list prices.Prices are now seen to be about 10% higher in Europe than in the US , against 25% a year ago . |
| 25 | Imports of consumer goods they claim , are held back because marketing costs are prohibitive in a country which has over twice the number of retail stores per head of the population than in the US or West Germany . |
| 26 | Steeper profiles show that ‘ the growth rates in earnings attributable to tenure are far greater in Japan than in the US ’ ( Hashimoto and Raisian 1985 p.732 ) . |
| 27 | Although public awareness of the Third Reich is probably greater in Germany than in the US , the organisers were right not to cut down on the documentary material . |
| 28 | Maternal morality is five times higher in El Salvador than in the US . |
| 29 | Fortunately , the level of civil claims overall in the UK is a lot lower than in the US which is why at present premium rates are considered relatively cheap . |
| 30 | In a comparison carried out by the National Economic Development Council and the Manpower Services Commission ( 1984:85 ) it was said that the concern for a sound basic education is voiced strongly in all the three countries [ USA , Japan and the then Federal Republic of Germany ] as it is in the UK , but nowhere more so than in the US . |