Example sentences of "uk [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Stockholders account for 60 per cent of the 20 million tonnes of steel sold in the UK each year . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | It is not just in the UK that illegal low flying brings the risk of subsequent penalties . |
| 10 | There is a perception in the UK that British Telecommunications Plc is not overly keen on selling ISDN to its residential customers . |
| 11 | There is a widespread perception in the UK that top management is ever ready to give responsibility to project leaders/managers but seldom to delegate corresponding authority . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In the UK some companies offer better maternity leave provision than the statutory minimum . |
| 14 | In the UK some benefits are automatic ( eg child benefit , which is received by all families with children ) and others are means-tested ( eg family credit , which is received only by those families with low incomes ) . |
| 15 | Shipped to the UK some weeks before Woburn , ‘ AQJ was re-assembled here by Nigel Arnot from Camden , Sydney , and showed that she was still as agile as ever by taking part in the Tiger Moth aerobatic competition at Woburn . |
| 16 | Throughout the UK some of the 40 affiliated local organisations of the PRA arrange their own pre-retirement courses , often in collaboration with other educational authorities . |
| 17 | In the UK this will be at about 67° to the horizontal , but it is not critical , as the maximum is quite broad and not very sensitive to angle . |
| 18 | BMW 's engineering director , Wolfgang Reitzle , did n't take too well to suggestions that the up-specification of the 750iL ( in the UK this autumn ) was a sign of panic . |
| 19 | Both versions will be in the UK this April , with the saloon looking to tempt everything up to Lexus buyers with an all-in price of around £28,000 and the coupe out on its own at around £30,000 . |
| 20 | • 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 . |
| 21 | For an office worker in the UK this is not a reason for complacency , but a source of opportunity . |
| 22 | Although user education takes place in most library sectors in the UK this chapter will focus primarily on activity in higher education and , latterly and briefly , in special libraries . |
| 23 | Canadian Gold , a bottled lager from Canadian National Breweries , is to launch in the UK this month . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 26 | In the case of trade union reform in the UK this is partly because government has tried and failed but more generally because the public sector is now viewed as having a self-interest which need bear no relation to the public interest . |
| 27 | Or bypass his brain altogether by using the ‘ Femidom ’ — a disposable , odourless internal sheath for women , launched in the UK this month . |
| 28 | In the UK this is fine , but if anyone from outside the UK is reading this , be careful you get the spirit that does not contain water . |
| 29 | Around 300,000 Lynx are expected to be sold in the UK this year , bringing the number of owners up to 500,000 . |
| 30 | OIL giants BP will axe 1,500 jobs in the UK this year — part of a worldwide cut of 11,500 workers . |