Example sentences of "for us [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ For US invasion of Panama , deportation of Noriega and subsequent developments see pp. 37112-13 ; 37179 ; 37181 . ] |
| 2 | The head of the Defence Agency 's Bureau of Defence Policy , Shigeru Hatakeyama , announced on March 13 that Japan was increasing its financial support for US forces within the country by $269 million in the fiscal year 1991 . |
| 3 | Nakayama stressed , however , that the March 13 decision to increase Japanese financial support for US forces in his country was evidence of Japan 's commitment to bilateral relations . |
| 4 | SPIKE LEE 's new film Malcolm X , due for US release in November , will spawn two soundtrack albums . |
| 5 | He had made an allegedly anti-Turkish speech on Sept. 21 and had reportedly criticized US President George Bush for US neutrality over Nagorny-Karabakh , an attitude which the Armenian leadership feared could jeopardise Western aid . |
| 6 | On Oct. 16 , the Russian Interfax news agency said that the Armenian leadership feared that Hovhannesyan 's criticism of President Bush for US neutrality in the Karabakh conflict might mean that Armenia would not receive similar benefits from the West . |
| 7 | On Sept. 30 the USA and Byelarus had initialled an agreement in Minsk providing for US assistance with the evacuation of nuclear missiles from Byelarus . |
| 8 | The legal cloak given to the US action by the formal request for US assistance by the new government of President Guillerm Endara is not convincing , since the government was sworn in on a US military base with a US general standing by . |
| 9 | They also alleged that North Korea was developing new long-range missiles [ for US concern over North Korea 's nuclear programme , see p. 38819 ] . |
| 10 | Concern was expressed about the possible impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA — see pp. 39045-46 ; 39234 ) in reducing preferential arrangements for US imports from central America . |
| 11 | Later , during an address to a specially convened joint session of Congress , he appealed for US support for his radical free-market economic strategy . |
| 12 | The CSCE would consult with the UN on how individuals could be brought to trial for war crimes committed in the area [ see p. 39240 for US Secretary of State 's Dec. 14 proposal for war crimes prosecutions ] . |
| 13 | The programme established six goals : ( i ) adequate pre-schooling ; ( ii ) a high school graduation rate of at least 90 per cent ; ( iii ) student competence in the five core subjects ; ( iv ) world pre-eminence for US students in mathematics and science ; ( v ) 100 per cent adult literacy ( 23,000,000-27,000,000 US adults were currently estimated to be " functionally illiterate " ) ; and ( vi ) absence of drugs and violence from every school . |
| 14 | Medical care costs ranged from US$1,100 per case in India to over US$4,000 per case in South Korea [ for US estimates of medical costs see p . |
| 15 | Despite being repudiated by his new party , he was elected state representative in 1989 and was nominated for US senator in 1990 , taking 44 per cent of the vote in losing to the incumbent Democrat . |
| 16 | First , it never represented a major investment outlet for US business as a whole . |
| 17 | Third , while of modest significance for US business as a whole , overseas investment was much more important for the giant multinational enterprises . |
| 18 | Relations were strained further after reports on Oct. 4 that US Congressmen , led by a Democratic senator , Stephen Solarz , had called for US aid to be suspended unless the PPP was allowed to contest the elections . |
| 19 | Tate & Lyle ( the international sugar , cereal sweetener and starch processing group ) has anticipated the mandatory implementation of a change in accounting standards by adopting an accounting policy of recognising the liabilities arising from the provision of post-retirement healthcare and life assurance benefits for US employees on an actuarially-determined basis . |
| 20 | GATT officials warned that failure to reach an agreement by October would jeopardise the chances of meeting the deadline of March 1 , 1993 ( extended from March 1991 — see p. 37930 ) , required for US approval of the GATT agreement using the so-called " fast-track " legislation , under which the US Congress would be obliged to vote for the entire package rather than on specific amendments . |
| 21 | His later version , made for US Columbia in 1952 with the Philadelphia Orchestra , contained all nine numbers : the earlier version listed above omits two , ‘ Cloudland ’ and ‘ Frozen Forest ’ . |
| 22 | A bill was introduced on Sept. 20 in the US Senate which sought to lay down guidelines for US policy on Hong Kong up to and after 1997 . |
| 23 | Japan and the United States agreed on June 4 , after some years of often acrimonious debate , to extend for a further five years the deal reached in 1986 on the easing of access to the Japanese market for US manufacturers of chips for use in computer assembly . |