Example sentences of "united [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he had helped to set up British Aerospace as a nationalised company , he was convinced it could not take on the huge rival plane-makers in the United States unless it was unfettered from government control . |
| 2 | EUROPEAN Community officials were stoking fears last night of an all-out trade war with the United States after it was disclosed that British and other European steelmakers could face crippling new duties on exports to America . |
| 3 | Laura Davies , the five-year-old girl from Manchester , is undergoing a twenty hour multiple transplant operation in the United States after complications followed her earlier surgery . |
| 4 | Six months ago Teresa Leinin had to put them on a plane to the United States after the High Court ordered they must be sent back to their American father . |
| 5 | PRESIDENT Bill Clinton last night pledged to maintain the special relationship between Britain and the United States before he began his first meeting with John Major . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Their behaviour in Brazil was , however , complicated by the monetary authorities and policies of their home government — primarily , that of the United States since it was US banks who had taken the lead and were therefore the most exposed ( Frieden , 1987 ; Nunnenkamp , 1986 ) . |
| 8 | He says he 's only seen sunflowers in the United States so he went home and got his camera to take some pictures . |
| 9 | Aer Lingus , the Irish Republic 's national airline , confirmed that it was facing two charges in the United States that a subsidiary company illegally supplied aircraft parts to Iran . |
| 10 | When the Goncourt brothers noted in their Journal in the 1860s that the new Paris resembled ‘ some future American Babylon ’ , they were nearer to the truth than they knew , though they got it the wrong way round , for it was in many of the cities of the United States that French influence was predominant . |
| 11 | It agreed with the United States that Resolutions 242 and 338 were the benchmarks for a peaceful solution , but sharply disagreed over their interpretation . |
| 12 | Although there are laboratories in Europe and the United States that can grow chlamydia , again they are working as research rather than service units . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , it 's not uncommon in the United States that families may , for example , have to sell their homes to pay for the medical treatment of a relative . |
| 14 | A defence spokesman said : ‘ We are glad to be able to confirm at the request of the United States that the UK will participate in the operation . ’ |
| 15 | Partly because of this kind of situation , it is generally accepted in the United States that conventional credit scoring systems do not reliably discriminate between good and bad payers either among people on very low incomes or among people in the 18 to 25 age group . |
| 16 | Oddly enough , it was the United States that acted as an important intermediary in these arguments . |
| 17 | We restricted our comments to the design of pending trials in the United States that are a matter of considerable debate , and suggested that such trials should be comparative precisely because , as and say , ‘ it is not known which specific immune responses are required for therapeutic benefit ’ . |
| 18 | It seems extraordinary to today 's parents in England and the United States that women of the twenties and thirties should have been prepared to accept either the content of these pronouncements or the authoritarian tone in which they were made ; yet accepted they were , in that innumerable women made valiant efforts to stifle their natural desire to cuddle their babies and to feed them when they were hungry , or were wracked with guilt and shame when they ‘ mawkishly ’ rocked the child or sentimentally eased his stomach pangs in the small hours with a contraband couple of ounces . |
| 19 | In accordance with Article 4 of this Treaty , the British government had sought and received assurances from the United States that if extradition were to take place , the death penalty would not be carried out . |
| 20 | The tariff reform camp had a bonus in 1911 from events in Canada : Laurier 's Liberal government had negotiated a Reciprocity Agreement with the United States that cut across all of the arguments for imperial preference . |
| 21 | Since ocean carriers must now verify prior to accepting NVOCC shipments to or from the United States that FMC bonding and tariff filing requirements have been met , the registration feature is designed to facilitate the carriers ' verification and to gain a standing for the NVOCC bill equal to that of its European counterpart , the FIATA bill of lading . |
| 22 | It has long been recognized in the United States that there are difficulties in getting old agencies to implement new policies . |
| 23 | Although he did not achieve any recognition from the United States that the USSR was an ‘ equal ’ power , he did secure an American guarantee not to invade Cuba , which has diminished the spectre of how the Soviet Union would respond to such an event . |
| 24 | Although we have no record , the Magnolia Grandiflora from the United States that clothe the wall of the north wing of the house must have been some of the first plantings of magnolias at Lanhydrock ; I would guess that are now well inside their second century . |
| 25 | It was precisely because the measures in the social chapter would have damaged first employment prospects and secondly our competitiveness against Japan and the United States that I found them unacceptable . |
| 26 | In early June it was reported from the United States that the Bush administration was seeking congressional approval for an additional US$10-15,000,000 in " covert " military aid to UNITA , to supplement a $50,000,000 CIA assistance programme . |
| 27 | On Sept. 25 , in the first official comment on the affair , Vellayati in New York denied the allegations currently gaining wide currency in the United States that Iran had negotiated with campaign officials of the Republican party to delay the release of the US diplomatic hostages on the eve of the 1980 presidential elections [ see pp. 38327-28 ] . |
| 28 | It is not only the United States that has become dependent on imports of oil . |
| 29 | Er the United States er in , in short , the , the principal er actor here er is immune from criticism because if these strikes fail it 's simply er bad luck , erm there 's no cost to the United States that can be translated into the domestic er arena and made dangerous to the incumbent president . |
| 30 | In Washington the state department said Mr Yeltsin had sent a message assuring the United States that he remained committed to democracy , human rights and civic order . |