Example sentences of "british [noun] ['s] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean-Marie Balestre confirmed the British driver 's ban from the Jerez race for ‘ a recognised , proven and established offence ’ and ruled that his appeal could not affect this year 's world championship . |
| 2 | This accident , and the collapse of a railway bridge within the recent past in Wales , together with declining standards and quality of service , raise serious questions about the competence of British Rail 's management of the rail network in Wales . |
| 3 | The company hopes that between 10 million and 11 million passengers annually will be using the service within two years — 25 per cent more than used British Rail 's services on the two lines . |
| 4 | British Rail 's standards for the maximum speed that trains could round bends were based on tests done on a branch line in North Wales with a tank engine in 1949 . |
| 5 | Hepworth justified poaching from literature because of ‘ the advantage of a well-made plot , which was not at all easy to come by in original film scenarios ’ , but what this ignores is the responsibility of producers like him to foster the writing skills which would end British cinema 's reliance on the novel or play , and novelistic or theatrical styles of storytelling . |
| 6 | Roadburg seems to be suggesting that certain characteristics of the British fans ' involvement in the game ( partisanship , segregation , collective identity and pre-match build-up ) give rise to a greater degree of passionate commitment ( and enhanced potential for disorder ) than in the American equivalent . |
| 7 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 8 | Until it slipped last year , British manufacturers ' share of the volume of world exports had been broadly stable at 7% since 1981 , after falling continuously since the 1950s . |
| 9 | The essay has since been listed in several bibliographies , and has exerted an influence which , when I composed it as a kind of riposte to the British Council 's purchase of the copyright of that crack-brained idea from its originator , C. K. Ogden , I could not have foreseen . |
| 10 | British Steel 's closure of the Ravenscraig steel plant in Motherwell this September means the loss of one of the heavy industry landmarks and fuels national sentiment . |
| 11 | This could be explored between now and 1996 , as the British Library 's move from the museum makes available about 40% more exhibition space — much of it to be devoted , as it happens , to one theme : life in the Americas . |
| 12 | We will progressively reduce British Gas ' monopoly of the retail gas market , to give small users the same rights as big firms . |
| 13 | Following revelations about British Gas 's contribution to the destruction of Ecuadorean rainforest [ see ED 48 ] , new information has come to light concerning far larger concessions held by the company in Gabon . |
| 14 | Freeman , a BAIE member , initiated British Gas 's sponsorship of the Bobby Charlton sports school , which has enabled 10,000 youngsters all over Britain to receive free tuition in a wide range of sports over the past four years . |
| 15 | In fact , the Germans detonated only one of the British Army 's mines before the massive explosions that were to herald the attack . |
| 16 | Guided by its recent experience Quit has set as medium term goals adult smoking prevalences of 22% in 1994 and 18% in 1997 compared with the British government 's goal in The Health of the Nation of 20% in 2000 . |
| 17 | The Irish government reaffirmed that it was seeking a European Community investigation into the British Government 's part in the negotiations with Digital to save the Ayr plant . |
| 18 | The British government 's rules on the use of sewage sludge as fertiliser for grazing land have been called into question by the discovery that bacteria survive in soil much longer than previously thought . |
| 19 | Can he give any indication of whether at that meeting he expressed the British Government 's support for the United Nations human rights sub-commission report in relation to the expressions of concern about the violations of human rights in Tibet , and what proposals did he make to help the many thousands who have been refugees from Tibet in the past 30 years ? |
| 20 | The British government 's programme for the development of renewable energy has been massively oversubscribed , with developers submitting applications for projects which would generate electricity well in excess of the government 's target . |
| 21 | And Danny , Champion Of The World ( U Collins Home Video ) is one of those occasional British children 's films in the tradition of The Railway Children , where a horrid grown-up ( here Robbie Coltrane with a moustache and slicked-back hair ) is defeated by a kid ( Samuel Irons ) and his adult allies ( notably real-life father Jeremy Irons ) . |
| 22 | That leaves Daley Thompson as the sole survivor of the British men 's team at the Montreal Olympics still at the top . |
| 23 | This though makes no difference to the British public 's love-affair with the Russians . |
| 24 | Such faith is a timely boost to the former Blaydon Harrier as she prepares to partner McColgan in the British women 's team at the World Cross Country Championships in Boston on Saturday . |
| 25 | The families engaged barrister Geoffrey Robertson QC , who represented British soldiers ' families after the Gulf War ‘ friendly fire ’ incident . |
| 26 | He realised that this steamy tropical island with its huge natural harbour , just 80 miles north of the equator , was perfectly placed to become the British Empire 's power-base in the East . |