Example sentences of "united [noun prp] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's one reason children in the United States ca n't vote , they ca n't buy alcohol and ca n't stand for election . |
| 2 | Pakistan and the United States would eventually have to accept direct talks with the PDPA , he said , adding that neither country had so far implemented any peace process . |
| 3 | This issue was first raised as early as 1941 , and by 1943–4 had become a subject of major concern for the British government , aware that unless rules were laid down in advance , the United States would use its enormous wealth , undamaged industrial capability , and the advantages obtained during the war years to drive Britain and other countries off the international air routes . |
| 4 | American bilateral agreements that permitted fifth freedom rights especially alarmed the British , as they believed that the United States would be able to scoop up the best routes in a piecemeal fashion . |
| 5 | The United States would dive in from time to time with a huge splash which , however , would soon subside . |
| 6 | The United States would request its allies to fill in the ‘ vacuum ’ created by such cutbacks — this would increase the so-called burden sharing . |
| 7 | Food would become the weapon with which the United States would counter the Arab world 's use of an oil embargo in its fight against Israel . |
| 8 | The United States would probably have reverted to isolationism as happened after the First World War ; Congress would have cut back Defence spending , starving the US defence/industrial base ; and American big business would have looked elsewhere for profitable enterprises . |
| 9 | In return the United States would give some information . |
| 10 | The British programme was costed at £6,000 million spread over three years , to which the United States would make an undefined contribution . |
| 11 | Closer collaboration with the United States would reduce costs in weapon development , and enable Britain to be more selective in the projects she chose to pursue by herself in order to maintain the greatest measure of national independence . |
| 12 | American officials assured Turkey during the Gulf war that the United States would not even contact the Kurdish opposition in Iraq . |
| 13 | And the Japanese advances in eastern Asia nourished the hopes that the United States would be completely tied down in that theatre of war . |
| 14 | She told friends that the time difference between Britain and the United States would enable her to play a starring role by keeping one step ahead . |
| 15 | The new relationship meant that the United States would support Israel against any regional adversary which was either an actual or potential ally of the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | By its declaration of Palestinian independence the PNC filled the inter-statal void left by Jordan 's abdication of the West Bank , though it was doubtful that the United States would accept it as such . |
| 17 | The evening newscasts across the United States would use between thirty seconds and two minutes , according to taste . |
| 18 | The former would be the province of the Atlantic military alliance that Britain hoped the United States would create , while the latter were held to fall under the purview of the body established to administer the Marshall Plan . |
| 19 | On the other hand , it seemed obvious that the United States would not back down — and Western Europe was still heavily dependent upon the United States . |
| 20 | Admiral Isorohu Yamamoto was not convinced after the raid and feared that the United States would not reset until Japan was defeated . |
| 21 | The United States would , said Bill Clinton , now offer recognition to Eduardo dos Santos 's government in Angola . |
| 22 | Mr Christopher said yesterday the United States would not act alone in the Bosnian crisis but would keep pressing for lifting the arms embargo . |
| 23 | However , what such an analysis fails to take into account is that the evidence of wrong-doing that became so public in the United States would almost certainly have never surfaced in the United Kingdom , given the laws of libel and the willingness of the British people to tolerate secrecy in government . |
| 24 | The dealers and auction houses are on the other side , saying that any national droit de suite in the United States would create a huge administrative morass for the benefit of a few already-wealthy artists that would help drive the US art market overseas or underground . |
| 25 | At the New York hearing , Sanford Hersh , a visual artist and the executive director of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation , which makes grants to needy artists , argued that a droit de suite in the United States would inevitably raise the unconscionably low incomes of visual artists in the US . |
| 26 | The understanding of the United States in drafting the Protocol was that while the United States would ratify the Convention as well as the Protocol , ratification of the latter alone not being permitted , this would create treaty obligations binding upon the United States only with other states which had ratified the Protocol and in accordance with its terms . |
| 27 | It is likely that Stalin was confident that the situation would evolve in Russia 's favour , for it appeared improbable that the United States would pursue an active policy of intervention in the Asian continent and the left would possess the initiative in decision-making within Korean politics , since much of the right was discredited through collaboration with the Japanese . |
| 28 | Decisions on the administration of Korea had to be reached swiftly and the United States would be dependent on Soviet goodwill at first , since American forces were not immediately available to occupy south Korea . |
| 29 | Whatever transpired , the United States would circulate identical notes to the Soviet Union , Britain and China proposing discussions on Korea . |
| 30 | The assistant chief of the Division of Eastern European Affairs in the State Department , Stevens , argued for rearming in Korea as a sign that the United States would resist communism : |