Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] british " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European Commission 's approval of the programmes for RECHAR grants for British coalfield areas is overdue . |
| 2 | The report by Sir Anthony Hidden QC , published yesterday , said there is a ‘ collective liability which lies with British Rail ’ . |
| 3 | I have never made any secret of the fact that I believe that the future of Monktonhall lies in British Coal working the pit and we have said that from the start . |
| 4 | [ Martha Vogt in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society , vol. xviii , 1972 ; obituary notices in British Medical Journal , vol. iv , December 1971 , p. 628 , and Lancet , vol. ii , 1971 , pp. 1328–9 ; private information . ] |
| 5 | You 've turned us that route because your Government have switched away from what matters from British people that we represent . |
| 6 | If one writes to British Rail , one gets the brush-off . |
| 7 | It is a collective liability which lies on British Rail . ’ |
| 8 | It will also meet with resistance from some of the groups that stand to gain from such policies because of the grip that the ideology of inequality has on British society . |
| 9 | I am happy to tell him that my right hon. Friend is now looking to see whether there are better ways of sourcing Ministry of Defence needs among British and other European farmers . |
| 10 | This is similar to what happens in British courts , but the APA is unimpressed . |
| 11 | As Alexander ( 1982a , p. 121 ) puts it , ‘ the committee system of decision-making which predominates in British local government makes no provision for a political executive , either individual or collective ’ . |
| 12 | But I feel that we are less aware of this same process when it occurs in British schools . |
| 13 | What happens to British examples is unknown , but it has been consumed as a delicacy in Europe and North America for centuries . |
| 14 | It also wants the Government to look at the wider issue of what happens to British aid and credit going into Ghana . |
| 15 | It acts as British agent for a large number of New Yorkers offering bed and breakfast in their own homes , and can also find apartments — from studios to three-bedroom flats — many privately owned . |
| 16 | This ‘ closed-door ’ session is intended to be a meeting of minds involving a free and frank exchange of concerns , ideas and information with which to reduce , as far as is practicable , the possibility of terrorist acts against British Gas installations . |
| 17 | This ‘ closed-door ’ session is intended to be a meeting of minds involving a free and frank exchange of concerns , ideas and information with which to reduce , as far as is practicable , the possibility of terrorist acts against British Gas installations . |
| 18 | This ‘ closed-door ’ session is intended to be a meeting of minds involving a free and frank exchange of concerns , ideas and information with which to reduce , as far as is practicable , the possibility of terrorist acts against British Gas installations . |
| 19 | Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co Ltd has resumed its international phone service to Iraq , discontinued since the Gulf War : the company has also added calling line identification facilities to its international ISDN links with British Telecommunications Plc and has begun offering its Auto-credit service in Holland and Sweden , which enables its subscribers to make calls to Japan and charge them to their credit cards . |
| 20 | Body deals with British agriculture 's much-publicised successes its unmatched improvement in output per man , the impressive yield increases of its major products , the mobilising of thousands of hectares of marginal land for arable production . |
| 21 | The Party 's role on the left of British politics had far outweighed its size , and the fall-out from that explosion threw new clusters of groups , causes , and concerns into British politics . |
| 22 | Opposing proposals to import a further 5 million tonnes of coal , he presented evidence that this was both unnecessary given the trends of productivity and costs within British Coal , and damaging to long-term energy policy since it would lead to pit closures and the sterilization of up to 150 million tonnes of coal reserves . |
| 23 | A good deal of this book is about the inequality that exists in British society . |
| 24 | A new round of fare increases on British Rail have come into force , and commuters are warning they could force people off trains and into their cars . |
| 25 | Most of the nuclear increases result from cost increases by British Nuclear Fuels , the reprocessing body which supplies both the civil and military atomic programme . |
| 26 | Meanwhile the Government tries to deny there 's a problem — apparently Thatcher even claimed at one point that no untreated sewage goes into British seas . |
| 27 | Between leaving school and going off to war with the Navy , he had worked on the Sharpness tugs for British Waterways . |
| 28 | The most popular dude ranch states with British holidaymakers are Arizona , Colorado and Wyoming . |
| 29 | This must necessarily include the replacement of the constraining and obsolete crown-subject relationship , which prevails in British law , by a modern state-citizenship relationship , the enactment of a bill of rights and the reform of the electoral system by means of proportional representation . |
| 30 | The one usually denoted C ( B ends in 977 and A is of little use for this period ) survives in British Library ( BL ) MS Cotton Tiberius B i , which contains Alfred 's translation of Orosius ' Histories against the Pagans , and three further items also in Old English : a metrical calendar , some gnomic verses , and the Chronicle . |