Example sentences of "[art] uk [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa Ltd blames a 5% fall in profits before charges for closure of some telecommunications operations on losses at the UK telecommunications subsidiary , Reuter reports , but the group will still commit another £200m to the UK unit this year , group chairman Li Ka-Shing said : ‘ I 'm not happy with the results , but we 'll still continue our commitment to the UK operation and pump more money into it , ’ he said — ‘ I 'm not sure the worst is over yet in the UK , which ate up all our Hong Kong profits this year ; ’ he said Hutchison will have invested over £500m in the loss-making UK unit , including the £200m that is earmarked for this year , but he refused to say at what point he will say enough is enough — ‘ It 's too early to say ; you can never tell when business will pick up . ’ |
| 2 | A report in the Guardian of Nov. 7 said that a ban by NATO countries ( which dominated COCOM ) on exporting " secret " high technology to communist countries had cost the UK telecommunications company British Telecom a £4,200,000 ( US$7,100,000 ) order to supply optical fibre equipment for a new telephone link in Vietnam . |
| 3 | The UK Telecommunications Users Association has formed a new Mobile Users ' Special Interest Group , intended to represent users across a range of mobile technologies such as cellular , paging , mobile data and private and public cordless communications . |
| 4 | The UK telecommunications industry was fragmented and suffered because it was unable to reap economies of scale . |
| 5 | Is it a good idea for DEC to boast that its VAX 6310s were the ‘ workhorses ’ of the British Broadcasting Corporation 's electoral analysis machine when the BBC 's predictions of the UK election result last week — along with just about the entire market research industry — turned out to be so wide of the mark ? |
| 6 | The paper was also highly commended in the UK Press Gazette Regional Newspaper Awards . |
| 7 | The 1990 Forum ( Film and Commissions and the UK film industry ) greatly assisted the formation of the national body , the UK Film Commission , which is headed by Sydney Samuelson . |
| 8 | The 1990 Forum ( Film and Commissions and the UK film industry ) greatly assisted the formation of the national body , the UK Film Commission , which is headed by Sydney Samuelson . |
| 9 | Pharmaceuticals ( above ) run a £5bn trading surplus and the UK electronics industry is the 4th largest in the world |
| 10 | With losses in the fourth quarter of $40.1m lower at $42.1m ( 1991 : $82.2m loss ) the UK underwriting deficit at the full year was reduced by almost a half from $341.9m to $175.2m as action on rates and operating costs proved increasingly effective . |
| 11 | Worldwide underwriting loss for the quarter was $80.5m — representing 7.9% of premiums ( 1992 : $135.0m loss — 14.8% of premiums ) , an improvement of $54.5m due largely to a sharp reduction in the UK underwriting deficit . |
| 12 | Faced with this potential loss , it was hardly surprising that the UK Heritage Year poster proclaimed the aim of ‘ calling the attention of the European people to the steady erosion of their common architectural heritage ’ . |
| 13 | Low house prices here mean that even though Northern Ireland is bottom of the UK salary league with an annual average of £15,012 , people can still afford to get on to the housing ladder . |
| 14 | Amongst the activities of CONARLS the production of a report on the UK Fiction Reserves was very relevant to Lending Services ' work . |
| 15 | British Summer Time ) and the news was reported to the UK Accidents Investigation Branch ( AIB ) of the Department of Trade a little over an hour later . |
| 16 | The UK disclosure requirements are imposed by the Financial Services Act ( which requires all material matters to be disclosed ) although the details are set out in the ‘ Admission of Securities to Listing ’ issued by the Stock Exchange . |
| 17 | Audit regulator dominance in the UK listed market A handful of firms , regulated by the Institute , dominate the top end of the UK audit market |
| 18 | These reports contain data about the structure of the UK audit market and , in particular , about those firms auditing listed companies . |
| 19 | For without prior reform of the UK excise duty structure it will always be an uphill struggle to maintain exports at their current level . |
| 20 | A domicile of origin is notoriously adhesive , but it is only if it is replaced with a foreign domicile of choice , and three further years elapse , that the individual will escape the UK inheritance tax net . |
| 21 | Mr X who is fully within the UK inheritance tax regime makes a gift to the settlement . |
| 22 | The UK grain harvest forecasts are usually 20 million tonnes per year . |
| 23 | In particular , Germany was thought to be considering withdrawing from the European jet fighter project , in which it was engaged with France and Italy , while the UK was seeking confirmation that development of a military helicopter by the UK manufacturer Westland and an Italian manufacturer would proceed as planned . |
| 24 | Instead , the UK accountancy bodies would rather see the Commission adopt the guidelines of the International Accounting Standards Committee ( IASC ) , which has been working progressively towards the international harmonisation of the rules by which companies report . |
| 25 | It is for this reason the UK accountancy bodies have put forward the idea of a European accounting standards body in the hope of persuading Brussels to toe the IASC line . |
| 26 | Most of the bad debts fell on the UK branch business , where losses jumped from £66 million to £140 million last year . |
| 27 | A particularly severe test is to use the results to estimate the population of the area over the kilometre square grid given by the UK Ordnance Survey . |
| 28 | Eurorail , British Rail 's partner in devising private sector participation in the Channel Tunnel rail-link with London , also aims to capitalise on the Government 's encouragement of private sector involvement in developing the UK rail system . |
| 29 | The site must be accessible from the UK rail network ; |
| 30 | I am sure you are familiar with the UK Link organisations , among them Wildlife Link . |