Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] british " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet still it appears impossible to discover the ownership of shares held through a minor Swiss bank which were used to help a second division British company build up stakes in several third division British companies . |
| 2 | In the eighteenth century British consumption , rising steadily at a bit over 2 per cent a year , was more buoyant than the re-export trade , which made the British preferential tariff more advantageous to the planters . |
| 3 | In the last quarter of the eighteenth century British population hit the critical rate of growth squarely in the middle , slow enough to maintain , or even slightly improve real wages and yet to encourage labour saving innovation , fast enough to keep down labour costs and yet to expand aggregate demand for food and mass consumer goods . |
| 4 | To catch on to the developing barbecue market , the BTIS is also to spotlight June as its first Quality British Turkey Month ; arrange sampling tests for up to 150,000 consumers ; and set up a turkey charity ball — or turkey trot — in conjunction with a major charity . |
| 5 | The younger men amongst the Jews often roared with laughter when the older men , the original immigrants , talked of some experience or incident , for the young bucks were first generation British and educated . |
| 6 | English actress Julie Christie has been co-starring with Canadian Donald Sutherland in ‘ The Railway Station Man ’ , a rural love story set in Donegal and directed by Britain 's Michael Whyte , American Ned Beatty recently completed his starring role as Irish tenor Josef Locke in ‘ Hear My Song ’ , directed by first time British director Peter Chelsom . |
| 7 | It is the first time British soldiers have killed gunmen in the conflict . |
| 8 | Keener 's own musical tastes are pretty catholic , but he especially admires late 19th and 20th century British music . |
| 9 | Who is the only 20th century British prime minister to have also held — concurrently — the post of foreign secretary ? |
| 10 | Her choice of the 2,000 canvasses at the 20th Century British Art Fair in London was … a portrait of herself . |
| 11 | One has to remember that well into the nineteenth century British identity was predicated first of all of the English . |
| 12 | ( The Labour Party in Great Britain was created to promote the interests of the working class against those of the capitalist class , for example ; before that , much of the contesting within the nineteenth century British state involved different capitalist interest groups — manufacturing vs. agriculture vs. trade , etc. seeking advantage over the others . ) |
| 13 | Mimicry in which a relatively tasty prey mimics another poisonous species is called Batesian mimicry after its discoverer , the nineteenth century British explorer H. W. Bates . |
| 14 | The rise and fall of Keynesian social democracy is one of the central problems of twentieth century British history . |
| 15 | It contains some fascinating material , but not on the central issues of twentieth century British secret service history . |
| 16 | For my twentieth century British Design retrospective exhibition , he lent me , with a good deal of fussing and commotion , his last remaining ‘ Heartsease ’ cup and saucer , a Wedgwood design of the early 1950s . |
| 17 | The fireside and the kitchen : domesticity and rationality in twentieth century British family housing |
| 18 | It is the aim of this paper to extend and explore these themes with reference to my particular interest , twentieth century British popular housing design . |
| 19 | Yet still it appears impossible to discover the ownership of shares held through a minor Swiss bank which were used to help a second division British company build up stakes in several third division British companies . |
| 20 | Last night British Land shares closed at 403p , up 46p on the 357p they were trading at when suspended on Tuesday . |
| 21 | Last month British Telecom promised that such transmitters would be available of Unisat . |
| 22 | Last week British Coal named Andrew Horsler as its director general of marketing . |
| 23 | In December last year British Customs officers detained a 53 tonne haul in Felixstowe as part of a £1.6m fraud . |
| 24 | His regular drawing practice gave him a solid understanding of the structure of the human head and hands , and he is unique amongst 18th century British painters for his custom of making detailed preparatory drawings for his portraits . |