Example sentences of "[prep] the us " in BNC.
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| 1 | BT 's registration statement for the US showed that ‘ net income ’ and ‘ shareholders ’ equity' under UK generally accepted accounting principles ( Gaap ) were each double the US Gaap figures and retained earnings were three times the US Gaap equivalent . |
| 2 | The report says ‘ Mr Zappala 's … experience … along with his civic activities make him an ideal candidate for the US embassy ’ . |
| 3 | Summoned to Lord Beaverbrook 's presence on her departure for the US she listened to him develop a one-sided Scottish conversation which included the listing of many ancestors and their places of burial . |
| 4 | FKB is paying for the US group through an initial $3.5m in new shares , with a further $19m funded through loan notes realisable in January . |
| 5 | Gavyn Davies , chief UK economist in London for the US investment house Goldman Sachs , said : ‘ If they joined the pound would spontaneously recover . ’ |
| 6 | She found her bearings conventionally enough by working for the US information office in Bogota , Colombia , and then in Rio di Janeiro where she acquired a lifelong love for Brazil . |
| 7 | ‘ Japan is our biggest export market and we have seen what protectionism has done for the US automotive industry . ’ |
| 8 | Mr Bishko says sales volumes need to rise by a fifth or a quarter for the US operation to break even , and more stores will be needed before it makes a satisfactory profit . |
| 9 | Reed says the guide is the definitive directory for the US legal profession . |
| 10 | For the US , the emphasis is on securing a free and fair election , which the State Department seems to believe will result in an opposition victory . |
| 11 | For the US , the emphasis is on securing a free and fair election , which the State Department seems to believe will result in an opposition victory . |
| 12 | Under the title Strategic Force for the 1990s and beyond , and drawn up by army chief of staff General Carl Vuono , the plan calls for an entire army corps to be withdrawn from Europe , and for the US Army to be cut from 764,000 men to 630,000 . |
| 13 | The problem for the US troops , as in the bombing attacks aimed at Colonel Gadafy 's Libyan regime , is that there is no such thing as a surgical military strike against targets surrounded by civilians , many of them in this case US citizens . |
| 14 | In 1960 , when Gen Noriega was both a cadet at an elite military academy in Peru and a spy-in-training for the US Defence Intelligence Agency , he was detained for allegedly raping and savagely beating a prostitute . |
| 15 | THE ousting of General Noriega is likely to make it easier for the US to live up to its commitments under the Panama Canal treaties agreed by President Carter and then Panamanian strongman , Omar Torrijos . |
| 16 | Mr Bush sent a private cable to Mr Gorbachev explaining the reasons for the US military intervention just after the operation began , the Secretary of State , Mr James Baker , said . |
| 17 | Within the last 18 months , the company has sold : its European silicones business to Rhone-Poulenc for £30million ; four businesses from its Canadian offshoot CIL ; a computer software company to managers ; a West German printing inks business ; its over-the-counter drugs business in the US and Savlon in Britain ; a Canadian building products business to Trafalgar House ; and its Coopers Animal Health , which it owned with Wellcome , to Chicago-based Pitman-Moore ; During the period it has bought : Cambridge research Biochemicals ; a privatelyowned US acrylics company , K-S-H ; Rayca Chemical Corporation , which makes chemicals for the US textiles industry . |
| 18 | Bickering began on the US side yesterday , with State Department officials angrily protesting to the White House that the Pentagon failed to provide any security for the US embassy in Panama . |
| 19 | The provision of bases in Britain for the US Strategic Air Command bombers and the RAF-manned Thor missiles were repaid in exchanges on nuclear strategy , tactics and targeting . |
| 20 | The truth was revealed only by chance , when a journalist for the US magazine Sports Illustrated happened to be aboard a boat when it hauled up seven dead porpoises , caught in a single set . |
| 21 | It seems that in his habit of making films that are considered too long for the US cinema circuits , Cameron may have unwittingly provided film companies with a money-spinning way of making people pay to see the same movie twice . |
| 22 | NICK FALDO , world No 1 last week and with a highly creditable share of sixth place in the Freeport-McMoran Classic in New Orleans at the weekend , found his halo had slipped when he arrived at Augusta for the US Masters yesterday . |
| 23 | He added that he had been well treated when he returned for the US Open . |
| 24 | Both for the UK ( Stevenson , 1968 ) and for the US ( Leighninger , 1980 ) the evolution of the generic-specialist debate in the context of professional development has been traced . |
| 25 | Of world biotechnology patents recently documented , patents obtained by Europeans accounted for only 19 per cent of the total compared to 41 per cent for the US and 36 per cent for Japan . |
| 26 | He filled the kettle and set it on the hob , then went through to the front room , closed the shutters , and tried radioing on the frequency Caspar had given him for the US Embassy in Belpan City . |
| 27 | Its report to NASA and the White House on the future of the US space programme put life sciences at the top of the list of experiments for the US space station to be built by the end of the century . |
| 28 | The depth and fervour of public response seriously threatens the stability of a new and uncertain government committed to at least a show of support for the US . |
| 29 | With the tightening of world oil demand which will come in the 1990s and the beginnings of a ‘ catching-up ’ programme of crude price increases , it is to be hoped that measures will be taken in good time to counteract what could be a politically unacceptable and potentially debilitating economic dependence on imported energy , for the US and for the rest of the Western world . |
| 30 | According to sources in Washington , officials in the Department of Commerce decided at the end of last year to recommend this strategy to the president as the most effective way of relinquishing responsibility for the US 's Landsat system . |