Example sentences of "britain ['s] [noun] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said Britain 's withdrawal from the exchange rate mechanism last September was caused partly by Government failure to agree Britain 's level of entry in advance with the German central bank . |
| 2 | Britain 's standard of food in national institutions and mass catering is some of the worst in terms of health and palatability in Europe . |
| 3 | Even now Michael Heseltine , Britain 's Secretary of State for Defence , is at pains to point out that the installation of cruise need not go ahead ( see p 885 ) . |
| 4 | One has to feel sorry for Peter Brooke , Britain 's Secretary of State for National Heritage . |
| 5 | Britain 's lack of competitiveness in the 1960s was clearly the product of some combination of comparative productive inefficiency and the rate of exchange [ Thirlwall , 1982 ] . |
| 6 | It is commonplace now to seek the beginnings of Britain 's relative world decline early in the 1880s to 1930s cycle , and to blame them on Britain 's lack of adaptation to changing competitive conditions in industry . |
| 7 | First , Mr Delors — who had earlier sent a furious letter to Mr Major , complaining of Britain 's lack of faith over the TV pact — had kept him waiting for over an hour at Heathrow while his flight from Brussels was delayed by fog . |
| 8 | Britain 's share of taxation as a proportion of GDP has remained in the middle for the range of OECD states . |
| 9 | The 29-year-old Widnes maestro was forced to pull out of Great Britain 's tour of Australasia in the summer because of a persistent groin strain and said : ‘ I feel the injury can only get worse over the next couple of months . ’ . |
| 10 | St Helens forward Sonny Nickle is to be sent home from Great Britain 's tour of Australia with a serious knee ligament injury . |
| 11 | Britain 's stock of plutonium from the civil power programme is estimated to be enough to build 14000 missile warheads . |
| 12 | Both themes were present in Napoleon 's invasion for he hoped to strike a blow against Britain 's control of India by cutting the short overland route across the isthmus from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea , and also to develop new trading opportunities for France in the eastern Mediterranean . |
| 13 | Wine imports knocked a £1 billion hole in Britain 's balance of payments in 1992 . |
| 14 | This is readily apparent when one considers not export patterns alone , though they themselves have been distortive to an extent , but Britain 's balance of trade with the EEC countries . |
| 15 | Billions of gallons of water could be moved through Britain 's network of canals in an ambitious scheme to tackle droughts . |
| 16 | The contest was a kind of military superstars , with an RAF team carrying Britain 's hopes of victory in Challenge '93 . |
| 17 | In comparative terms , Britain 's use of imprisonment as a sanction remains high ( Table 1.2 ) and current statistical projections on its continued use remain uniformly gloomy . |
| 18 | The Festival is the brainchild of the Prime Minister John Major and is intended to celebrate Britain 's term of presidency of the European Council , which runs from July to December 1992 . |