Example sentences of "the uk [conj] [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anecdotal evidence confirms that informal investors also operate in the UK but there has been no research to assess their role and significance in the financing of small businesses . |
| 2 | This will not be the case , however , if the non-UK office deals only with customers outside the UK , or executes transactions only outside the UK for a customer in the UK unless it gives advice to the customer . |
| 3 | A failure to sell based on inside information is neither illegal in the US nor in the UK because there has been no securities transaction . |
| 4 | Manchester University 's Computing Centre will soon boast the largest single computational node in the UK when it replaces its VP1200 supercomputer with a VPX240/10 machine from Fujitsu Systems Business ( Europe ) : it is the first Fujitsu VPX machine to be sold in the UK since launch last year 's launch and features one scalar processor , one 2.5GFLOPS vector processor , 1Gb main memory , 1Gb of secondary memory ; it is four times faster than the five-year-old system it is replacing and will be used for computational fluid dynamics and engineering research ; delivery is planned for July ; no price was given . |
| 5 | If , on the other hand , the firm holds shares in another company resident in the UK and itself receives dividends on those shares ( this is called franked investment income ) , the dividends are exempt from further corporation tax because they have been paid out of earnings on which corporation tax has already been paid . |
| 6 | General Electric Co Inc 's GE Information Services has upgraded its electronic mail system , BusinessTalk System 2000 for Windows : data compression has been improved , and a gateway application has been added to enable links to external services ; bulletin boards can now enable drag-and-drop two-way posting of notices and files , and textual databases and on-line discussion boards have been added ; version 1.1 of the package is available now in the UK and it sells for £205 . |
| 7 | These attributes would be expected to lead to new and better solutions to problems in the UK and it seems that the apparent anomaly may be of cultural origin . |
| 8 | Just as Germany was experiencing specific sources of job-related stress due to re-unification , so too in the UK where there has been a trend towards mergers and acquisitions between the UK and other European countries as the European Economic Community becomes a greater reality . |
| 9 | The group has pinpointed 150 locations around the UK where it plans to open stores , particularly in Scotland , where it only recently opened its first store . |