Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [verb] britain " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , one or another form of ‘ Christianity ’ must have reached Britain within a few years of the time specified by Gildas . |
| 2 | From day one , the new government must start to get Britain working again . |
| 3 | LABOUR must fight to put Britain in the First Division of Europe , said Mr Smith . |
| 4 | The amendment to the MacMahon Act might have saved Britain money and time in establishing her nuclear deterrent , but , as each year passed , the deterrent would become less and less independent as Britain 's own research establishments were bypassed , and more and more of its sub-equipments and components came from America . |
| 5 | The year 1962 had not been a good one for Macmillan : his domestic policies had started to go awry ; the application to join the EEC was unpopular ; his showing in the opinion polls had slumped to 36 per cent ; in July he had sacked one-third of his cabinet , fearing a revolt against his leadership ; in October he was seen to play little part in the Cuban missile crisis , in which Kennedy alone took the decisions that could have drawn Britain , whether she liked it or not , into nuclear war between the superpowers ; and in December it was becoming clear that de Gaulle was blocking the EEC entry negotiations . |
| 6 | Of course , many policy statements are little more than vaguely embodied aspirations as to how parties would like to see Britain develop . |
| 7 | Later in the year , fund-raisers at the college are also hoping to buy two emergency bakeries from the Ministry of Defence which would have fed Britain after a nuclear attack . |
| 8 | It has been estimated that signing up to the social charter would have cost Britain a minimum of £5,000 million a year , decreased competitiveness and increased unemployment . |
| 9 | The truth is that , for the past 12 years , Labour has espoused a defence policy which never had intellectual validity and which , if implemented , would have exposed Britain to grave security risks . |
| 10 | the socialists would have made Britain bankrupt . |
| 11 | If Japan 's lending had continued to expand at the same pace as in recent years it would have overtaken Britain in 1992 . |
| 12 | Had 11.0 per cent been achieved in 1975 , it would have transformed Britain 's balance of payments and turned a substantial negative current balance for that year into a modest surplus . |
| 13 | With one hand he would try to mend Britain 's fences with the United States by using his own close relationship with President Eisenhower and other senior members of the US Administration , which he had formed when he was British political adviser at Eisenhower 's Allied Force Headquarters in the Mediterranean during the War . |
| 14 | The following day Major told his party 's conference non-ratification would mean breaking Britain 's future in Europe . |
| 15 | On the economy , on Europe and on support for the new leadership , Labour took a giant step towards becoming the Party the people will trust to govern Britain . |
| 16 | Acid rain will continue to affect Britain for many years to come , despite new anti-pollution measures , according to a government report . |
| 17 | Censorship will continue to threaten Britain 's lesbian and gay communities from within as well as from without . |
| 18 | It must also put together a package which will help to ease Britain out of the recession . |
| 19 | New facilities and better backing for people with outstanding talent will help put Britain back on the international sporting map . |
| 20 | Brenda was a youthful veteran of package tours where groups and singers did brief sets of their big hits , and can recall touring Britain in 1964 with Manfred Mann , Marty Wilde , and Johnny Kidd & the Pirates . |
| 21 | All of this has made me understand that it is time for change , and I want to explain how I believe I can continue to serve Britain . |