Example sentences of "of the british " in BNC.
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| 1 | AMNESTY Journal of the British Section of Amnesty International No 51 June/July 1991 |
| 2 | At a meeting in February , the Ex-Services Group of the British Section of AI was officially launched . |
| 3 | Add to this the monies raised by new members the length and breadth of the British Isles who contributed to the Section 's annual turnover of £2.25 million with their cultural events , sponsored walks and street collections . |
| 4 | Out of the list we have selected the following five cases for appeals by members of the British Section . |
| 5 | As a private activity there could be no objection to Christian members calling their fellow-believers to prayer , and I suppose that I and fellow-members of the British Humanist Association could have similarly organized a non-official meeting . |
| 6 | Of the British playwrights , Pinter is often thought to be on the edges of ‘ absurdism ’ and you could also read N.F. Simpson 's One Way Pendulum and Cresta Run . |
| 7 | The view that they are one appears mainly in the writings of the British and Irish Communist Organization ( 1972 ; 1973 ) . |
| 8 | As Gibbon has noted , the cases of both Irish nationalism and Ulster unionism remain ‘ the two most spectacular class alliances in the political history of the British Isles ’ ( 1975 : 3 ) . |
| 9 | It just so happens that Irish national — popular consciousness interprets the presence of the British state in Ireland as a form of aggression and hence feel justified in repelling the British from Ireland . |
| 10 | One also remembers the effect ‘ Bloody Sunday ’ had on Southern attitudes , resulting in the burning of the British Embassy in Dublin , in 1972 . |
| 11 | The appropriate committee of the presbyterian church in Ireland opposed the extension of the British Abortion Act of 1967 to Northern Ireland ( Presbyterian Church in Ireland 1930–86 , Annual Report ( 1982 ) , pp. 194–6 ) . |
| 12 | The balloon says it all : lager has less than 50 per cent of the British beer market yet the brewers spend two-thirds of their advertising money on it . |
| 13 | ‘ The transformation of the British pub currently underway has not occurred because of some conscious desertion of its doors by the public , but it is the result of some very careful planning by groups of retailers , marketing managers and accountants ( back up by designers ) encamped in the higher echelons of the brewing trade . |
| 14 | Phil Philips , deputy secretary of the British Hotels , Restaurants and Caterers Association , said : ‘ People in the industry are much better educated about AIDS than they were in 1987 . ’ |
| 15 | Among those noting Xu 's habit of using just one board ( ingredients are so fresh and so quickly prepared that food poisoning is not considered a threat ) is Keith Mitchell , team captain of the British chefs competing at the culinary Olympics in Frankfurt next year , and head chef at the Grand Hotel , Eastbourne , East Sussex . |
| 16 | But the evil ravages of the British educational system at its worst were not enough to keep her away from her first love forever , and she started to cook with simplicity and a straightforward style which she has maintained . |
| 17 | NEW AESTHETICS FOR NEW DIRECTORS — finding and funding new film and television directors which also points the way to the styles , subjects and emotions of the British film and television culture of the future , — LOW AND BEHOLD ! |
| 18 | The Festival hosts the regional launch of the British Film Institute 's 1991 New Directors programme ( September 21 , 6.30pm , MAC Cinema ) . |
| 19 | Additionally , his father 's side of the family were very enthusiastic adherents of the British Empire and in addition to their being ( as Leonard preferred to call them ) ‘ gentlemen of Hebrew persuasion , ’ they were perhaps more British in some respects than the British themselves , recalling what Hugh MacLennan said in his superb novel of the period , The Two Solitudes : ‘ The French are Frencher than France and the English are more British than England ever dared to be . ’ |
| 20 | There was an added incentive this year for the students as it was their last opportunity to catch the eye of Sue Rich , captain and selector of the British Team for the World Student Games which take place later this year . |
| 21 | A major restructuring of the British Toymakers Guild has been recommended at their Annual General Meeting . |
| 22 | He is now critical of the British clockmaking industry , but hopes that with the help of a German movement , his new clock will survive longer than the original . |
| 23 | I came to the conclusion that there was quite a bit of room in the psyche of the British clockmaking establishment for a little humility . |
| 24 | Pond snail in monteray pine David Morgan ( or Ned ) is one of the rate sorts of person who always appears to be happy and cheerful , making him the natural leader of the Devon branch of the British Woodcarvers Association . |
| 25 | The whole of Great Britain was divided between them on a strictly geographical basis , and — subject to the general supervision of the British Railways Board and its chief officers in London — each region was completely responsible for the planning , working , and selling of all rail services in its area ( except in the seven provincial centres where PTEs had been established ) . |
| 26 | These were the opposite ends of the British special-train scene of the 1980s , on either side of a conscious divide where the key words were price and profit . |
| 27 | When the character of Harlequin , the Comic Lover , had become familiar in England he was quickly promoted to lead the pantomimes ; nowhere in ballet does he rise to more commanding heights than as Captain Belaye in Cranko , s Pineapple Poll , where he takes on the superior airs and manners of the British Navy and becomes the apple of every girl 's eye . |
| 28 | A SPECIAL brew was produced by Moorhouse 's of Burnley last month for the wedding of the company 's sales manager Carolynne Brammer to Barrie Pepper chairman of the British Guild of Beer Writers . |
| 29 | After the war he was the first Welshman to become an accredited guide of the British Mountaineering Council . |
| 30 | Hugh Kenner veers unexpectedly into the idiom of the British schoolboy : ‘ Blast should have been a great lark ’ . |