Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] united [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | ONE of the worst storms of the century hit the east coast of the United States over the weekend , killing at least 98 people and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes for emergency shelters . |
| 2 | There has , however , been an increasing recognition in the United States over the past 25 years that community based services for people with long term mental illness have too often been fragmented . |
| 3 | The object is to look at the growth experience of the United Kingdom over the last 80 years or so as a whole — which strangely enough has not yet been examined . |
| 4 | As a result of these misleading advertisements and unsolicited telephone calls a number of individuals in the United Kingdom over the period July 1988 to March 1989 purchased Euramco shares . |
| 5 | Steel compromise : European Community negotiators have reached a compromise with the United States over limits on Community steel exports , an EC spokesman said . |
| 6 | Finally , the Adoption Act 1968 extends the powers of courts in the United Kingdom over adoption , and enables effect to be given in the United Kingdom to adoptions made in other countries ; and the Adoption Act 1976 consolidates all the earlier enactments relating to adoption . |
| 7 | At the press conference at the end of his visit , Mikoian made it quite clear that the Soviet Union did not want a show-down with the United States over Cuba ( Dinerstein : 1962 , p. 69 ) . |
| 8 | In contrast , the drop in the United Kingdom over the same period has been from 4.4 to 3.1 per 100,000 of the population — a reduction of 32 per cent . |
| 9 | In a country where anything so conspicuous as reducing food subsidies courts trouble , cut backs in the health sector may seem a safer bet ( in 1977 7.7 per cent of GNP was devoted to health care , down from 9.5 per cent in 1955 ; in comparison , proportions in the United States over the same period rose from 8 per cent to 11 per cent ) . |
| 10 | Prompted by the fear of another Cuba in the region and desires for economic growth , Latin American political elites came to an agreement with the United States over aid for reforms . |