Example sentences of "[prep] britain by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 18 September , Environment Minister Chris Patten flew to Brussels for talks with Environment Commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana , according to The Times still ‘ optimistic that he could head off threatened prosecution of Britain by the European Court ’ by showing that ‘ Britain was doing everything it could to comply with the European drinking water legislation . ’ |
| 2 | A key reference book is Sources for the History of Houses by John Harvey ( London 1974 ) , and to this may be added The Illustrated Handbook of Vernacular Architecture by R.W. Brunskill ( London , 3rd edition 1986 ) , and Traditional Buildings of Britain by the same author ( London 1985 ) . |
| 3 | The Treaty of Tlatelolco was signed on 20 December , 1967 , and ratified on behalf of Britain by the Wilson government on 11 December , 1969 . |
| 4 | ‘ We will be campaigning throughout the country on the theme ‘ the betrayal of Britain by the Conservative Party ’ , and saying the tax increases are merely to pay for mistakes of the past . ’ |
| 5 | Back to a return from bad Labour-Tory-Labour-Tory government to better government of Britain by the International Monetary Fund ? |
| 6 | The account of the Roman conquest of Britain by the Roman writer Tacitus , is certainly more " primary " than Collingwood 's Roman Britain written in the twentieth century , yet Tacitus was describing events in which he himself had not participated , though his father-in-law , and one of his key " sources " , was the General , Agricola , who had played a leading role in the campaigns . |
| 7 | The meat was then skinned , dressed , cut into ‘ sides ’ , sewn into canvas , and placed in refrigerator vans for distribution throughout Britain by the London and North-Western Railway . |
| 8 | Agitated by the fear that the rebellious Irish , with their own parliament , might have allowed Ireland to be used as a back door into Britain by the acquisitive Napoleon , the government in London embarked upon a course of pressure which culminated in the felo de se of Grattan 's Parliament in the union legislation of 1800 . |
| 9 | The Park Room restaurant of the Hyde Park Hotel has been voted Best Italian Restaurant in Britain by the Instituto Italiano Spumante Classico — a group of Italy 's leading wine companies . |
| 10 | Refugee families in obvious distress were discouraged and often prevented from joining their relations and Asian friends in Britain by the Board 's refusal of all aid to them if they settled in areas with significant Asian populations . |
| 11 | The predicted 140 per cent increase in traffic in Britain by the end of the first quarter of the next century was an ‘ unacceptable option ’ , said Chris Patten . |
| 12 | The classical phase of station-building was overtaken in Britain by the Italian villa style , which became so popular , particularly for country stations , by 1844 that the Illustrated London News could say ‘ the style has been called Italian ; it might be designated more properly an English railway style ’ . |
| 13 | In 1987 the number of people shot dead in Britain by the police using firearms was five . |
| 14 | In recent months Town has placed orders for Septrin , a popular antibiotic made in Britain by the Wellcome Foundation , with Wellcome 's Malaysian agent . |
| 15 | The figures suggest that some 1200 excess cases of leukaemia may have been caused in Britain by the Windscale accident , since leukaemia deaths account for some 15 per cent of cancers attributable to nuclear accidents , the total toll of cancer deaths suggested is 8000 . |
| 16 | The Central Electricity Generating Board suggests an increased electricity demand of 20 per cent in Britain by the year 2000 . |
| 17 | The principle of holidays with pay had been extended to an estimated million and a half manual workers in Britain by the beginning of the 1920s , but the economic recession of that decade meant that this figure remained relatively static until the late 1930s . |
| 18 | Commercial interests were quick to recognize the scale of popular interest in the outdoors , but whilst the outdoors had become integral to everyday life in Britain by the Second World War , it continued to represent in some of its expressions a relatively uncommercialized leisure culture . |
| 19 | This followed the rediscovery of the Sarum Use , which had been a local medieval modification of the Roman rite , used in nearly every place in Britain by the end of the fifteenth century . |
| 20 | One major lesson drawn from the 1981 riots in Britain by the authorities was that this style of policing had led to a growing gulf between the police and the communities in which it worked . |
| 21 | After a conference in Appleton , Wisconsin , USA , guidelines dealing with Euthanasia were issued in Britain by the Institute of Medical Ethics . |
| 22 | More than 5,000 fur coats were given a ceremonial burial at a secret grave in Britain by the anti-fur pressure group Lynx . |
| 23 | ( The latter has been tested in Britain by the Reading Bus Company , see ED 72/73 ) . |
| 24 | If the Nepalese court decides that there is no case against the two men , they could be back in Britain by the end of the week . |
| 25 | The first cars to be made in Britain by the Japanese firm Honda have rolled off the production line . |
| 26 | Mayfest exhibitions will include the first solo show in Britain by the notable German artist Wolf Vostell at the Transmission Gallery . |
| 27 | As much of this religious enthusiasm was exported from Britain by the London-based evangelical missionary societies it will be necessary to consult those archives as well as the records of Irish churches and voluntary religious societies . |
| 28 | For , as New Scientist reported , true to its function ( as a barrister once said about a toilet roll revolving when stood on , causing injury ) the Home Office had held an exercise about an attack on Britain by the USSR . |
| 29 | Ground elder is said to have been brought to Britain by the Romans as a remedy for gout and has plagued us ever since . |
| 30 | Stockwood wrote an article , ‘ The Big Improvements ’ , welcoming the state visit to Britain by the Ceauşescus in The Times . |