Example sentences of "the us have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to this point the US had been binding itself to Vietnam with conceptual associations , policy objectives , and some material considerations . |
| 2 | The US had been sending combat troops into South Vietnam since 1961 . |
| 3 | The prompt action by South Pacific countries to deal with the drift-net plague provided a marked contrast to the situation in the North Pacific high seas , where the US had been dragging its heels as the Asian drift-net fleets continued to pillage the salmon , tuna , and squid resources , and kill tens of thousands of marine mammals and hundreds of thousands of sea birds , many of them in Alaskan fisheries waters . |
| 4 | In fact , this decision was less revolutionary than it appeared : Bush has brought the deadline forward from 2000 , as laid down under the Montreal Protocol , to 1995 , but the EC had already decided to adopt a 1997 deadline and the US had been lagging behind world opinion . |
| 5 | Thus , although the US had been told by the French not only that there was no question of the ‘ reconquest ’ of Indo-China but that it was also doubtful that France had the military strength to accomplish it , they were also invited to believe , by the French , that Ho was in direct contact with Moscow and was receiving advice and instructions from the Soviets . |
| 6 | One Canadian official told New Scientist that scientists from the US have been replaced by ‘ people with less relevant experience , and some who have been acting as political commissars ’ . |
| 7 | Athletes from Belgium , Norway , Ireland , Italy , the Netherlands , Germany , France , South Africa and the US have been invited . |
| 8 | Half of all high-level lakes in the US have been damaged by acid rain and at least 4,000 of Canada 's lakes have died . |
| 9 | Two bills to prohibit the importation of wild birds into the US have been introduced in Congress after conservationists stepped-up their campaigns to have the trade banned . |
| 10 | Thirty-one crocodiles illegally exported to the US have been returned to their indigenous Nigeria . |
| 11 | Research groups in Europe and the US have been concentrating on altering the genetic structure of certain animals to make their organs more acceptable to the human body . |
| 12 | The $338m damages an Arizona jury awarded to Standard Chartered against Price Waterhouse in the US has been struck out , and a retrial ordered by the same judge who presided over the original trial . |
| 13 | The US has been trying for a decade to clinch the deal , not least because it would give its nuclear forces control of what is seen as the strategically vital Pacific zone and a new set of options if its Philippine naval and air bases are threatened . |
| 14 | Since 1985 the US has been withholding a portion of its annual dues as a way of policing the UN . |
| 15 | The depletion rate over the US has been measured at 4 to 5 per cent since 1978 . |
| 16 | It turns out , however , that the eviction of Iraq from Kuwait by force is not a simple military matter , and that in the process of trying to bring it about , the US has been leading the coalition towards tactical objectives , and perhaps strategic war aims , which are much wider . |
| 17 | The report goes on to say that clean-up policy has been made on political rather than scientific grounds and that " less than 1 percent of the $4,200 million spent each year on hazardous-waste sites in the US has been used to evaluate health risks at listed Superfund sites . " |
| 18 | Without really thinking what the words mean in policy terms , the US has been parroting the ‘ need for stability ’ . |