Example sentences of "[noun] to britain from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or can a more positive interpretation be sustained , with France emerging as a close rival to Britain from the eighteenth century onwards ? |
| 2 | The 1971 Act also effectively discriminated against black workers by the introduction of the concept of ‘ patrials ’ , which was intended to distinguish persons with close ties to Britain from those without and give them the right to reside in Britain . |
| 3 | And in technology too , the nineteenth century saw the coming to Britain from France of technical drawing , and the depiction of industrial landscapes and industrial processes . |
| 4 | On my return to Britain from Venezuela , my first project will be of a drawing of a tigress and a cub . |
| 5 | On my return to Britain from Venezuela , my first project will be of a drawing of a tigress and a cub . |
| 6 | Mr Smith , a Northampton headmaster , has been involved in bringing hundreds of refugees to Britain from the Yugoslav war zone . |
| 7 | Four days earlier the Sun had also helped to set the tone with a centre-spread report , ‘ HUMAN TIDE LABOUR WOULD LET IN — Bogus refugees will grab state handouts ’ , complete with coloured maps representing the locations of intending immigrants to Britain from Africa , Asia , eastern Europe and the Middle East . |
| 8 | Immigration to Britain from India and Pakistan has followed a slightly different pattern , with the real increase coming in the early 1960s , and later in response to the threat of the immigration controls that were eventually enshrined in a series of Immigration Acts , beginning with the 1962 Act ( Robinson , 1986 ) . |
| 9 | He wrote on art and architecture in collaboration with John Betjeman , taking over control of the Shell Guides to Britain from the poet . |