Example sentences of "[subord] [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 | To some extent this was inevitable given the US decision to operate through a civilian Japanese administration rather than through the US military command . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Customers need more hand-holding than in the US . ’ |
| 9 | There are plenty of reasons why such a result is less likely in the UK than in the US , none why it is impossible . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Maternal morality is five times higher in El Salvador than in the US . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | An assessment of commissions in international bond markets in the early 1980s shown in Davis ( 1988 ) suggests that in general , commissions in the eurobond market ( 2% ) were higher than in the US domestic market ( 1% ) , but rather lower than in the various European domestic markets ( 2.5% ) . |
| 22 | A view often quoted of the origin of the Eurocurrency market is that of East European banks , due to the cold war , wishing to have their dollar balances held in London , rather than in the US . |
| 23 | The government announced on Dec. 2 , 1989 , that the value of the metical would in future be linked to that of a basket of currencies , of undisclosed content , rather than to the US dollar as had been the case since Jan. 31 , 1987 . |
| 24 | ACTOR Patrick Swayze has slashed £200,000 off the wooden mansion he built himself because of the US property slump . |
| 25 | Each British TV channel takes up about 8 MHz of bandwidth ( whereas in the US the TV channels are narrower and the pictures consequently less clear ) . |
| 26 | We must , of course , take account of the differences between the practices of the UK 's Nuclear Installations Inspectorate ( NII ) and the NRC , and the differences between the countries ' electrical supply networks — the UK works with a 50 Hz alternating current , while in the US it is a 60 Hz system . |
| 27 | The British PWR will also have two 600 MW turbines while in the US they use a single 1200 MW turbine . |
| 28 | UK scientists have used special micro-encapsulated formulations to achieve greater stability of the pheromone in sunlight , while in the US the pheromone is released from short lengths of polythene capillary tubing or laminated chips , applied with a special sticker . |
| 29 | The business-to-business and consumer publishing sectors achieved big profit gains , while in the US , Cahners performed strongly in the medical and specialist consumer sectors . |
| 30 | TWO members of a Granada TV news team were robbed while in the US to film Laura before she and her parents left for home . |