Example sentences of "the uk [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the UK such research is widespread though there are specialist environmental epidemiology research institutes at Southampton and Cardiff ( funded by the Medical Research Council ) , and others at the University of Surrey ( Robens Institute ) and at the London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine . |
| 2 | Almost three-quarters of the 398,000 tonnes of cheese sold in the UK each year is either cheddar or ‘ territorial ’ cheeses such as Cheshire and Red Leicester . |
| 3 | Stockholders account for 60 per cent of the 20 million tonnes of steel sold in the UK each year . |
| 4 | Transportation to the slaughterhouse is also a problems for the 600 million meat chickens , called broilers , which are eaten in the UK each year . |
| 5 | Around 700 deaf women give birth in the UK each year . |
| 6 | Excess alcohol consumption is associated with premature death , and some 1,100 people are killed on the road in the UK each year as a result of drunken driving . |
| 7 | The amount of paper destroyed in the UK each year when quantified in numbers of trees equals a forest the size of Wales . |
| 8 | One four-pager told me that around 500 million animals were killed for food in the UK each year . |
| 9 | MND is a muscle wasting condition which kills three people in the UK each day : there is , currently , no treatment or cure and is always fatal . |
| 10 | In the UK little work of any description seems to have been done on human behaviour in the aftermath of releases of hazardous substances , nor is much available on public attitudes to emergency planning . |
| 11 | In the UK much investment in this area has failed to produce its full benefit . |
| 12 | In the UK most university level sports are a joke ( execpt the Boat Race , varsity rugby match , certain other games ) , but in the US college sport is BIG . |
| 13 | In the UK any firm with more than 25 per cent of the market can be referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission , which must then consider whether or not the monopoly is against the public interest . |
| 14 | • Space Runner is tipped to be the name Mitsubishi will use for its appealing new people carrier , which is due in the UK this year . |
| 15 | Around 300,000 Lynx are expected to be sold in the UK this year , bringing the number of owners up to 500,000 . |
| 16 | OIL giants BP will axe 1,500 jobs in the UK this year — part of a worldwide cut of 11,500 workers . |
| 17 | Promix is now the main product offering from Ross and is expected to generate some £15m sales in the UK this year , as opposed to £8m last year . |
| 18 | JUST THOUGHT I 'd write to say how surprised and disappointed I am that the 10,000 Maniacs have decided ( at the time of writing ) to play only three live dates in the UK this year , all of which are in London . |
| 19 | JUST THOUGHT I 'd write to say how surprised and disappointed I am that the 10,000 Maniacs have decided ( at the time of writing ) to play only three live dates in the UK this year , all of which are in London . |
| 20 | Hopes of record breeding for many rare birds in the UK this year were ruined by poor weather , according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 21 | UP TO £8 billion will be paid in the UK this year in unnecessary taxation , it has been estimated . |
| 22 | In the UK this issue was thrown into bold relief by the Tyndale Affair , which some observers have , mistakenly , assumed to be a cause rather than a symptom of the accountability debate . |
| 23 | It is also the case that in the UK this division of labour is quite highly structured over space . |
| 24 | In the UK this problem has also occurred in the celebrated series of Factortame cases referred by the English courts to the European Court of Justice . |
| 25 | Ozone depletion over the UK was 21 per cent greater than normal over the UK this spring , 10 per cent higher than last year . |
| 26 | Canadian Gold , a bottled lager from Canadian National Breweries , is to launch in the UK this month . |
| 27 | SOUTHERN COMFORT The Black Crowes ' Rich Robinson With a stated mission to put the Soul back into rock'n'roll , the Black Crowes visit the UK this month . |
| 28 | Or bypass his brain altogether by using the ‘ Femidom ’ — a disposable , odourless internal sheath for women , launched in the UK this month . |
| 29 | Finally I have to recommend the book that best tallies with my own ( feminist ) analytic standpoint on population : Betsy Hartmann 's Reproductive Rights and Wrongs ( Harper and Row , 1987 , due to be published in the UK this month ) . |
| 30 | In the UK this practice is only permitted in relation to a Recommended offer . |