Example sentences of "britain [is] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This partly reflects the fact that strikes are a dramatic form of conflict ( or at least they can be portrayed as dramatic events ) , and partly it reflects the fact that public opinion in Britain is firmly fixed upon strikes . |
| 2 | She was a founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768 , and in Britain is generally associated in the popular mind with Robert Adam 's decorative schemes . |
| 3 | Similarly , the notion of fostering a local enterprise culture has been suggested both inside and outside Parliament ( Trippier , 1989 ) as a potential source of urban renewal and in Britain is officially inscribed as a goal of all Inner City Task Forces . |
| 4 | Australia 's natural partners are the booming south-east Asian economies while Britain is heavily occupied with matters European . |
| 5 | Local authority testing in Britain is rarely used for accountability purposes . |
| 6 | Attention is focused on Scotland but evidence from the rest of Britain is also included . |
| 7 | The dreadful effects of this on the wealthy landowners and merchants of Britain is well documented by Ammianus Marcellinus , and have been the subject of a recent study . |
| 8 | Britain is well placed with reserves of coal , oil and gas which must be husbanded in a national energy policy to balance the needs of the present with those of the future . |
| 9 | The report states that Britain is well equipped in terms of research and development to meet the opportunities but " the country 's manufacturers appears incapable of supporting the development of new ideas and their translation into new products on the strength of home markets " . |
| 10 | Most of lowland Britain is intensively cultivated ; upland areas tend to be used for sheep farming and/or for game ( grouse , deer etc. ) as well as for other recreational activities . |
| 11 | Britain is widely regarded as having a political system which scores high on political institutionalization and low on personal leadership . |
| 12 | If all the claims of timber merchants and suppliers are to be believed , most tropical timber sold in Britain is already produced on a sustainable basis . |
| 13 | Just as America has diverse regional economies , so Britain is best seen as a series of distinct local markets . |
| 14 | Education in Britain is best seen in pyramidal terms . |
| 15 | Flu vaccine ‘ take-up ’ in Britain is low compared with other EC countries . |
| 16 | Much of Britain is densely populated and intensively farmed , and there is a long history of metal mining and movement of minerals and metals . |
| 17 | Britain is still gripped by recession , public sector borrowing is high , inflation running at 4.1pc and there are 2.6m registered unemployed . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , the Prime Minister has stressed Britain is still committed to the Trident missile programme . |
| 19 | And if Britain is really gripped by flutter fever there will be TWO £1 million top prizes each week . |
| 20 | As for the second alleged opt-out , the right hon. Gentleman confuses the distinction between the social dimension of the Community , to which Britain is fully committed — it has implemented all 19 of the directives thus passed — and the so-called social chapter , which deals with employment and labour laws where they are best determined in this country and in this House , and not imposed from outside . |
| 21 | In NATO , Britain is certainly committed to common aims , and defence policy must often be cleared with NATO allies first . |
| 22 | Almost one in 10 of the population of Britain is currently covered by private insurance . |
| 23 | Britain is now called the dirty man of Europe because of our government 's lack of care for the environment . |
| 24 | Total hare population in Britain is now estimated at around one million . |
| 25 | However , compulsory education in Britain is essentially provided at a local level and the number of pupils at a particular school can be subject to rapid fluctuations as a result of factors such as changing economic circumstances or new housing developments . |
| 26 | The fact is that every ten minutes somebody in Great Britain is seriously injured in an accident . |
| 27 | THE FIRST of the government 's promised annual reviews of research in Britain is almost finished and should be complete by the end of this month . |
| 28 | So Britain is poorly equipped to even consider making any comparisons of the productivity or usefulness of research . |
| 29 | There is little point devising programmes that will appeal only to Britain 's newly dispossessed . |
| 30 | In 1969 , nearly one third of Spain 's freight and almost a quarter of Britain 's still went by rail . |