Example sentences of "uk have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditional pollution control in the UK has been fragmented with air , water and wastes regulated by diffrent agencies operating different pollution control approaches . |
| 2 | It has been reported for example that the UK has been identified as the main European culprit as far as sulphur emissions and the killing of Norway and Sweden 's lakes is concerned , yet the UK 's sulphur emissions have been in decline since 1970 while acidification has not . |
| 3 | Nuclear emergency planning in the UK has been reviewed by Matthews and Pepper ( 1981 ) . |
| 4 | The traditional role of governments in the UK has been to ease the pressures on both companies and individuals by some form of intervention — subsidies , loans or payments etc . |
| 5 | A recent development in the USA and the UK has been the attempt to make libraries more visible and give them a national identity , by creating national library symbols or logos . |
| 6 | Since 1971 , 1280 kg of plutonium produced in the UK has been exported for civil purposes principally to Belgium , France , the Federal Republic of Germany , Switzerland , Japan and the United States . |
| 7 | If we are not careful the innovation for which the UK has been famous will disappear in a headlong rush to maximise shareholder returns . |
| 8 | The trend in the UK has been for the pyramid to become flattened as many organisations have striven to reduce their layers of middle management to take account of new technology and cut costs . |
| 9 | The Council of EC Social Affairs Ministers has agreed concessions under which the UK has been allowed to opt out of the proposed EC Directive which imposes a maximum working week of 48 hours . |
| 10 | All Factor VIII now supplied in the UK has been heat-treated to kill the virus . |
| 11 | This is attributed mainly to historical reasons whereby the function of external agreements in the UK has been largely procedural , rather than substantive . |
| 12 | But the only obvious truth of this kind in the UK has been that foreign supply creates domestic demand , the measure of which is import penetration . |
| 13 | The public system of child care in the UK has been dominated by the twin themes of rescue and compensation . |
| 14 | The total number of books published in the UK has been rising relentlessly for over 10 years , but 1993 should herald a change in strategy from major publishers : Random House , HarperCollins and Reed Consumer Books are among companies to have announced that they are substantially reducing the number of titles that they will be publishing in 1993 . |
| 15 | Perhaps the most important outcome of deregulation in the UK has been the emergence of a new corporate creature — the financial conglomerate . |
| 16 | One of the traditional planks of Labour Party policy in the UK has been to own the " commanding heights ' of the economy , though it is never completely clear what these include . |
| 17 | For example , we all know that productivity growth in the UK has been inferior to West Germany 's over the post-war decades ; that product development has been behind that of Japan ; and that over many years the rates of growth of South Korea , Italy and East Germany were higher than the United Kingdom 's . |
| 18 | Another approach to conceptualizing the simultaneous changes in the economy and geography of the UK has been made using variants of the theory of long waves . |
| 19 | For example , the general association of mathematics with ‘ science ’ may disguise its potential in relation to other subjects ; and the whole question of the relationship between science and technology in the UK has been the subject of a lively debate in the last decade . |
| 20 | Index arbitrage in the UK has been hampered in the past by the lack of a mechanism ( such as DOT in the USA ) to speed up the process of trading a basket of shares , the requirement to pay stamp duty and insufficient liquidity to cope with large arbitrage trades without an adverse price movement ( Price , 1988 ) . |
| 21 | The £1,000 Arthur C Clarke Award for a work of science fiction published in the UK has been won by Body of Glass ( Michael Joseph , £14.99 , Penguin , 6th May , £5.99 ) by Marge Piercy . |
| 22 | The internal economic geography of the UK has been reworked over a century by fundamental change in the nature and orientation of exports , which has reflected the success of individual industries and their factories . |
| 23 | The result of all these changes is two-fold , that the UK has been getting richer , but not as fast as the rest of the industrialized world . |
| 24 | Investment in the monitoring and evaluation of social policy changes made during the post-war period in the UK has been very limited , relative to the vast costs of actually making the changes . |
| 25 | The reduction of the public sector borrowing requirement ( PSBR ) in the UK has been a target , and this indicates a desire to curb the role of government spending . |
| 26 | The growth of venture capital funds in the UK has been substantial in the 1980s and is the result of a number of factors . |
| 27 | The product from International Paint 's Retail Division in the UK has been used to coat display boards and other structures used in the Daearth Project in Wales . |
| 28 | Coincident with the attention to reduce noise on the German Speedwing , David Clarke of Windy Kites in the UK had been toying with the concept of a kite with a rigid trailing edge . |
| 29 | In addition , Haynes in the UK had been controlling costs through a redundancy programme which had resulted in the loss of seven jobs ( out of 200 ) and exceptional charges of £203,000 . |
| 30 | The UK had been expected to be the second largest customer for the NFR90 , after the USA . |