Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] the united " in BNC.
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| 1 | As indicated above , the Cuban revolution induced Soviet leaders to modify the view ( hitherto almost as firmly believed in the Kremlin as in the White House ) that the Latin American nations were destined to remain trapped in a position of subservience to the United States . |
| 2 | In short , as nuclear capabilities have developed and conventional forces become more global in their reach , it becomes possible to extend the canopy protecting the forces of progress from the United States and others who would arrest natural and necessary changes . |
| 3 | After the initial courtesies , he stated that the Pacific represented a primary line of defence for the United States . |
| 4 | FTA 1973 governs the control of mergers in the United Kingdom and applies to " mergers qualifying for investigation " . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The New Criticism almost certainly constitutes the English-speaking world 's major contribution to literary theory , and as such it has exercised until recently a dominant influence on the teaching of literature in the United States and , to a lesser extent , in Britain . |
| 7 | Such massifs are the ultimate source of sandstones in the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | Describe the methods available to the Bank of England to control the supply of money in the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | First , in the brief sketch of the early history of radar in the United Kingdom , the earliest work on the detection of aircraft was done not at Bawdsey but at Orford ; Bowen 's middle name was not Gordon , but George ; and as a member of the Airborne Radar Group , I can assure the author that Bowen did not develop airborne radar ‘ single handedly ’ , nor did we develop the plan-position indicator . |
| 10 | The United Kingdom sharply increased its volume of exports to the United States in the 1980s , when the dollar gyrated wildly . |
| 11 | In part his object , especially in New York , was to recruit seamen from British ships into the union , a device which Joe Cotter , for one , regarded with admiration since as a result membership of the NSFU " went up by leaps and bounds " But he was also testing out the reaction of the men to the notion of an international strike , a theme he pursued at dozens of meetings in the United Kingdom in the following year , thirty such meetings being held in London alone . |
| 12 | There is thus a rule of construction that if a provision in an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom is ambiguous , it should be given that interpretation which is consistent with international obligations rather than one which conflicts ( Inland Revenue Commissioners v Collco Dealings Ltd [ 1962 ] AC 11 ; similarly , there is some authority for seeking to protect fundamental constitutional statutes from unintentional repeals ( see , e.g. , per Lord Wilberforce in The Earl of Antrim 's Petition [ 1967 ] 1 AC 691 ) If , however , such devices do not evade the problem , then traditional notions of the sovereignty of the United Kingdom Parliament require that any provision in any later statute which is inconsistent with any earlier provision repeals the latter to the extent of any inconsistency , whether declared or intended to have this effect or not ( Vauxhall Estates Ltd v Liverpool Corporation [ 1932 ] 1 KB 733 ; Ellen Street Estates Ltd v Minister of Health [ 1934 ] 1 KB 590 ) . |
| 13 | The first is that the impact of the debt crisis has been considerably cushioned by injections of aid from the United States which rose from US$14 million in 1980 to over US$160 million in 1987 . |
| 14 | However , in contrast to Nicaragua , where the economy has come close to collapse , in El Salvador both the additional costs of the war and increasing indebtedness have been counterbalanced by very large injections of aid from the United States . |
| 15 | This , combined with the shortage of labour in the United States , it is argued , led to the collapse of the system by the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | He points out that of some 200 applications of force by the United States , only five have been ‘ solemnified ’ ( his word ) by a declaration of war . |
| 17 | First , the ‘ hard look ’ test is contrasted with the ‘ kid glove ’ standard of review within the United Kingdom under the Wednesbury test which is said to demand no more than that a decision be not so unreasonable that no reasonable body could make it . |
| 18 | The company also exports programs to owners of computers in the United States . |
| 19 | Although FDI had been substantial from the beginning of the twentieth century , it really took off in the 1950s , as a result of the flow of funds from the United States into Europe aher the Second World War . |
| 20 | If this is how the British were feeling , how much more palpable must have been the sense of loss in the United States , how much more disturbing the feeling that something irreversible was taking place . |
| 21 | At that time it was considered that over 60% of cars in the United Kingdom had at least one defective tyre . |
| 22 | Maternal infection can result in fetal infection and damage and is estimated to occur in 0–1–0–5% of pregnancies in the United Kingdom . |
| 23 | Researchers at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the United States and at the Medical Research Council Unit for Applied Psychology in Cambridge simultaneously identified the tasks sensitive to the effects of even one night 's loss of sleep as those which were not self-timed , which went on for at least ten minutes and which were not intrinsically motivating . |
| 24 | It is true that extensive reviews of research in the United States ( Lipton et al. , 1975 ) and in Britain ( Brody , 1976 ) found it to be generally the case that different penal measures had similarly unimpressive outcomes in terms of re-offending , but they also found examples of reformative programmes which seemed to work to some extent with certain groups of offenders ( see Palmer , 1975 ) . |
| 25 | A one-year stint as assistant lecturer at University College London was followed in 1928 by a year of research in the United States and the West Indies , financed by a Laura Spelman Rockefeller memorial studentship . |
| 26 | What is the Rule of Recognition in the United Kingdom ? |
| 27 | The low rate of accumulation in the United States is undoubtedly a crucial symptom of the declining relative strength of US business . |
| 28 | By definition a single currency means that this country would no longer have the levers of control over the interest rates or banking policy … the Delors proposal for a Stage 3 would involve transfer of sovereignty from the United Kingdom Parliament of a sort neither Government nor Parliament would find themselves able to accept . |
| 29 | THERE was division among senior Tories last night over whether the Conservative Party should pave the way for a referendum on the constitutional future of Scotland within the United Kingdom . |
| 30 | One of the important issues that would have to be addressed in any new constitutional settlement for Scotland would be the funding arrangements of Scotland within the United Kingdom . |