Example sentences of "british [noun pl] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Toombs had been a founder member of the British premonitions Bureau in 1967 ( it registered 500 premonitions , most of which were concerned with major transport disasters ) . |
| 2 | Both he and his half-back partner , Gary Armstrong , might be forgiven if thoughts turned to British Lions selection for the summer tour to New Zealand but Gavin Hastings , another candidate in that department who is now being touted as Lions skipper , was adamant that performing for Scotland was the only issue at stake . |
| 3 | With England player involvement in the British Lions squad to New Zealand expected to reach double figures , it was decided to send a ‘ second team ’ across the Atlantic to play as an uncapped England XV . |
| 4 | ENGLAND 'S Ben Clarke is fast becoming the success story of the British Lions tour of New Zealand . |
| 5 | After the break I 'll be speaking to the Gloucester rugby player , Mike Teague , about his selection for the British Lions Tour of Australia . |
| 6 | Pontypool .. 34 Swansea ..... 6 AT 37 , and with more than 500 club games , 41 caps , and three British Lions tours behind him , Graham Price should be basking in the glory of one of Welsh rugby 's greatest careers . |
| 7 | VINNY CUNNINGHAM , the Irish centre who has flown to New Zealand as a British Lions replacement for the injured Scott Hastings , accepts his need to get fit in a hurry . |
| 8 | And he pointed to the way the French lorry drivers blockaded Euro-Disney , denying British kids holidays of a lifetime . |
| 9 | One of the men who had to walk down this precarious companionway was Malcolm MacDonald , the British dominions secretary in 1938 , still vainly attempting to reconcile the desperate promises of the First World War before the outbreak of the Second , trying to preserve order in the British mandate of Palestine by restricting Jewish immigration . |
| 10 | ZOFFANY 'S Cockfight , featured on the cover of Christie 's British Pictures sale on Friday , gave rise to some confusion when the catalogue first flopped through letter-boxes . |
| 11 | Some nativist elements in the host community were critical of what they saw as an assault on local culture by alien Jewish values and it was this ethnocentric attitude to change , when allied to the existence of genuine social grievances , which was to make some parts of the East End a fertile reception area for racial populist and anti-immigrant movements right through from the British Brothers League in 1900 , the BUF from 1936 to 1940 , the League of Ex-Servicemen and the Union Movement in the 1940s , to the National Front in the 1970s . |
| 12 | Granada UK Rental Ltd has signed a £5m contract with British Telecommunications Plc for a data communications network linking 400 Granada and Visionhire high street shops with the company 's customer account information centre in Bedford : the network uses the Global Network Services and partially replaces Granada 's existing dial-up network . |
| 13 | Take for instance , its co-operation with British Telecommunications Plc on a so-called Personal Computer for Communication that combines a multimedia computer with videophone , facsimile capability , photofax ( CI No 2,120 ) . |
| 14 | Energis is the name chosen by the UK 's National Grid Company for the telephone service it plans to launch next year , delivered along fibre optic lines that will run along its 4,200 miles of overhead power lines and 360 miles of underground cable : the company — owned by the 12 regional UK electricity distributors , hopes to get the go-ahead for its planned service in a few weeks , and has heavyweights Gordon Owen , formerly of Mercury Communications Ltd , and David Dey , formerly British Telecommunications Plc on board to run the business . |
| 15 | AT&T Co is stepping up its battle with British Telecommunications Plc with launch of its WorldSource customised communication services for multinationals , and has announced its plans for Europe and the Far East . |
| 16 | The talks between Electronic Data Systems Corp and British Telecommunications Plc about a possible alliance have cooled , the Wall Street Journal believes : rather surprisingly , the paper says that British Telecom had been considering buying 25% of General Motors Corp 's Class E shares , which simply pay dividends tied to the computer services subsidiary 's performance ; it had been assumed that British Telecom would not be interested in holding a significant minority interest in an automaker just to cement an alliance with one of its subsidiaries . |
| 17 | Cable & Wireless Plc says it does not accept those claims made against it by its local partners in Digitel Telecommunications Philippines Inc ( CI No 2,171 ) and will defend against the allegations : ‘ We have received no official notification of this claim and we do not accept the validity of the allegations as we understand them from the press , and would expect to defend our position robustly , ’ it said ; Reuter reports from Manila that the local Cable & Wireless office says that it advised the company last September that it could not invest further in the country until a court case involving another local affiliate , Eastern Telecommunications Philippines Inc , was resolved — Eastern is locked in a legal battle with Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co and appealing a Supreme Court order denying it the right to operate an international gateway ; an industry source said Digitel is tapping another major local partner and British Telecommunications Plc as new shareholders in the company . |
| 18 | Royal Dutch Shell Plc has given its contract for payphones at 660 UK petrol stations to British Telecommunications Plc after Mercury Communications Ltd to give up the private site end of the business to concentrate on high street sites ; British Telecom will install up to 840 more pay telephones for Shell under the £10 five-year contract . |
| 19 | The capacity and speed of optoelectronics make it an ideal means for simplifying switching and routing with optical networking a possibility for perhaps 10 years time — a prospect that researchers from University College are currently co-researching with British Telecommunications Plc in Harlow . |
| 20 | Open systems are also likely to play a part in the Highlands economy which is set to be revitalised thanks to the ISDN telecommunications system recently installed by British Telecommunications Plc in the area . |
| 21 | AT&T Co yesterday said that it had filed an application with the UK regulatory authorities to challenge British Telecommunications Plc by offering communications services within the UK , and between the UK and the US . |
| 22 | Companion will be distributed in Holland by Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV , Sweden 's Televerket and by British Telecommunications Plc from this year . |
| 23 | Mercury Communications Ltd , which came close to accepting AT&T Co 's hand in marriage a year or so ago , is backing the US company 's complaint to the US authorities that the UK regulatory system is unsatisfactory because , claims AT&T , the UK has not provided adequate safeguards to prevent British Telecommunications Plc from abusing its monopoly power , and has failed to exercise controls over interconnection services provided by Telecom for rivals , or the company 's pricing policy ‘ in a meaningful way ’ . |
| 24 | Help people with disabilities to enjoy participation in their sport by running and raising funds in 1991 for The British Sports Association for The Disabled . |
| 25 | Sydney Wooderson — Forgotten Champion by David Thurlow ; British Sports Association for the Disabled , 34 Osnaburgh St , London NW1 , £4.95 plus 50p pandp . |
| 26 | ( An alphabetical directory of self-help groups ) British Sports Association for the Disabled , Mary Glen Haigh House , 34 Osnaburgh Street , London NW1 3ND . |
| 27 | Sponsors ADT and the British Sports Association for the Disabled said it was necessary because of safety problems , chiefly involving the timing of road closures . |
| 28 | Mr Don Taylor , of the British Sports Association for the Disabled , welcomed the change of heart last night . |
| 29 | Two organizations which advise on sports for the disabled are the British Sports Association for the Disabled , and ‘ Les Autres Sports ’ . |
| 30 | Help people with disabilities to enjoy participation in their sport by running and raising funds in 1991 for The British Sports Association for The Disabled . |