Example sentences of "british [noun sg] has been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Management development within British Rail has been built around a leadership programme for their top managers . |
| 2 | The extent to which British industry has been damaged in the '80s has been explained by Lord Prior , once a dissident in the Thatcher cabinet , now chairman of GEC . |
| 3 | However fresh evidence on the impact of cuts in high rates of British taxation has been provided by Minford and Ashton ( see Brown 1988 ) . |
| 4 | The British launch has been sparked by the success of the developments in the US where there are already 300 outlets with another 300 set to open soon . |
| 5 | The British economy has been sustained in no small part by migrants from the former dominions — India , Pakistan , Bangladesh and the West Indies . |
| 6 | The essence of his argument is that , during the course of the twentieth century , British society has been characterised by increasing economic regulation and increasing moral licence . |
| 7 | Moreover , British society has been characterized by significant ‘ sub-national ’ cultures — Scottish , Welsh , Irish — which are interwoven with linguistic and religious differences . |
| 8 | In recent years the increasingly rigid age division of British society has been underpinned by social security , including pensions , policy . |
| 9 | , British Gas has been attacked for its environmental record by a leading representative of Confeniae , the umbrella organisation of Ecuador 's Indian peoples . |
| 10 | British government has been accepted as the product of the collected wisdom of many generations , indeed of many centuries . |
| 11 | Since last autumn , the British government has been lobbied by increasingly frantic waste-paper merchants and plastics recyclers protesting that their markets are being destroyed by the backwash of German rubbish . |
| 12 | The closure of thirty-one pits by British Coal has been delayed pending a decision by a judge as to whether or not it is legal . |
| 13 | THERE 'S little doubt that over the past decade the British public has been moving towards the Tory party 's ideal of a nation of home owners . |
| 14 | It is the first time since 1974 that a British commander has been voted to the post by the 14-member committee . |
| 15 | A BRITISH businessman has been charged with murder in Thailand after his partner was stabbed to death at a beach resort . |