Example sentences of "united [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ODDLY enough , although he was for almost 50 years a pillar of the British dance band scene , by his own account Joe Crossman 's only popular acclaim was given to him in the United States for his beautiful alto saxophone solo on Stanley Black 's mid-Forties recording of Django Reinhardt 's ballad ‘ Nuages ’ . |
| 2 | There is more potential in the United States for that . |
| 3 | We can not win the Ryder Cup , the Curtis Cup , the Walker Cup in the United States for the first time again . |
| 4 | Useful pedigree CHICAGO ( AP ) — The Queen of England will race a horse in the United States for the first time in 35 years at Arlington International Racecourse . |
| 5 | Our ties with them still matter , though they have been weakened by Australasia 's dependence on the United States for security and by our entry into the EEC . |
| 6 | He ended his presentation of forty-five minutes precisely , with the words , ‘ We have been the number one in the United States for many years , now we aim to be the number one in Europe , in South America , the Middle East … . ’ |
| 7 | GRAMPIAN Holdings , the animal medicines-to-sports goods group , is close to selling its Mitre soccer balls and boots subsidiary to Genesco of the United States for £17m . |
| 8 | Grubb , who has lived in the United States for some years , was brought into the British team that finished second in the Los Angeles Olympics , and will be coming to Britain hoping to make the Barcelona team . |
| 9 | Ricardo Ellcock , the Middlesex fast bowler , plans to study in the United States for a career as an airline pilot after confirming yesterday that he is to retire from first-class cricket , as reported in Monday 's Daily Telegraph . |
| 10 | The spillover effect of safety demands on costs , coupled with an economic recession , had effectively resulted in no new nuclear stations being ordered in the United States for over a decade . |
| 11 | On seeing my person , he took the opportunity to inform me that he had just that moment finalized plans to return to the United States for a period of five weeks between August and September . |
| 12 | Because of this it has been popular at cat shows in the United States for several decades . |
| 13 | The University has already established a ‘ Not for Profit ’ Corporation in the United States for the tax-efficient transmission of funds from the US to the University . |
| 14 | Aerospatiale has received a follow-on-contract from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in the United States for ten TB-9 Tampicos , with options for a further sixteen . |
| 15 | He has already signed a three-year deal with Harper Collins in the United States for around £11 million . |
| 16 | JIM COURIER redeemed himself for past Davis Cup failures by beating Switzerland 's Jakob Hlasek in Fort Worth , Texas last night to clinch the Cup for the United States for the 30th time since 1900 . |
| 17 | ‘ I was prepared to go to the United States for the most up-to-date expertise , ’ says Clemency . |
| 18 | The book might , in its day , have served as a poetic manifesto for the Movement — a sort of critical defence of the Angry Young Poet — but events were to take another turn , leading him in 1968 to settle in the United States for twenty years ; to produce , on his return , Under Briggflats ( 1989 ) , a critical history of British poetry since 1960 . |
| 19 | Whilst it may have become commonplace in Western Europe and the United States for Turks or Mexicans to move north in response to economic opportunity , the Turkic populations of the USSR show no such proclivity . |
| 20 | IRCA granted amnesty to nearly 3m workers in the United States for the year ending May 1st , 1986 . |
| 21 | Given this ambivalence towards political authority , there is little scope in the United States for heroic leadership . |
| 22 | This blueprint challenged the assumptions of Keynesian theory that had provided the basis of economic policy in the United States for close to half a century . |
| 23 | You visited the United States for the first time in 1963 . |
| 24 | Long admired in the United States for the powerful social content of her imagery , the exhibition includes more than one hundred drawings and prints as well as five rare sculptures , among which is the large plaster of ‘ Lovers ’ ( 1913 , Museum of Fine Arts , Boston ) . |
| 25 | A 35.5 cm high Egyptian quartzite bust of Senbef , a court official in the reign of King Psamtik I , has been sent over from the United States for this two-day sale of Antiquities and is estimated to fetch £600–800,000 ( $1.1–1.5m ) . |
| 26 | The blame was placed squarely on the United States for having gone back on the Moscow agreement and on the basis worked out by Marshall and Molotov for renewing the meetings of the Joint Commission . |
| 27 | Such criticism of American policy would be counter-productive ; the claims on the United States for economic and military assistance were so great that only a limited amount could be given to Korea . |
| 28 | Bevin emphasised the accumulating problems resulting from the fact that little progress had been made : he had encountered difficulties at the British Commonwealth conference held at Colombo in January 1950 and there were criticisms of the United States for not having given a lead . |
| 29 | His problems in composing this lecture were no doubt compounded by the fact that he had had in the past expressed no great liking for Goethe 's poetry — " I ca n't stand his stuff , " he had once told Ronald Duncan — and in any case he now found public addresses a complete waste of time.Immediately on his return from Germany , he travelled to the United States for a visit of two months . |
| 30 | He might have told her that in the United States for over a decade now , the journals and magazines and guide-to-life books , aided and abetted by manufacturers , traders , and advertisers , had sung the song of the perfect home and the perfect homemaker . |