Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [prep] british " in BNC.
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| 1 | The struggle for Cyprus had been eased by British acceptance of the Sovereign Base concept , though the Zurich Agreement between Greece and Turkey , which enabled Britain to grant Cyprus its independence , was not signed until February 1959 . |
| 2 | While advertising had long been favoured by British industry , public relations was hardly used until the beginning of the 1950s . |
| 3 | I 've always been fascinated by British history . |
| 4 | This I 'm pleased to say is being done , a meeting has been arranged with British Aerospace , it should have taken place on Monday er Mike was deputizing me at that meeting and I 'm waiting to see what the outcome of that meeting is . |
| 5 | However , remarkably similar proposals have been developed by British researchers operating from within a different perspective . |
| 6 | The drug has been developed By British Biotechnology in Oxford and is undergoing tests on Breast cancer patients in Manchester . |
| 7 | Darlington council has had to wait while negotiations have been completed with British Rail over the site ownership . |
| 8 | It has passed its steam test and has been checked by British Rail engineers for quality . |
| 9 | It is intended that 828 will be working on the main line as soon as possible and consequently it has been rebuilt to British Rail Main Line standards . |
| 10 | the convoy had been organised by British embassy officials in Baghdad , with the backing of the Iraqi government . |
| 11 | The APT has been applied to British data by Diacogiannis , ; who used 302 monthly observations for 200 securities between November 1956 and December 1981 . |
| 12 | At an extraordinary meeting of the Trades Union Congress at the Albert Hall on 9 December 1913 he was prompted to move a motion condemning " the unfair attacks which had been made upon British trade union officials " and affirming " their ability to negotiate an honourable settlement if assured of the effective support of all who are concerned in the Dublin dispute " . |
| 13 | To lead in all the polls as the favoured candidate for the Tory succession , to persuade your own party that you offer a distinctive viewpoint without being in any way overtly disloyal , to convince even the cynics of the Press that you pose a realistic alternative to the present leadership — no phenomenon like it has been seen in British politics for 50 years . |
| 14 | The Act has been embraced by British reformers as a model for disabled employment rights here . |
| 15 | The Atlantic crossing was over by 12 July and the Orynthia had arrived in Demerara , a one-time Dutch settlement which had been absorbed into British Guiana in 1831 . |
| 16 | The rest of the convoy once the two snipers had been shot by British soldiers manning a Warrior armoured car was able to make progress . |
| 17 | A number of issues are raised in the paper , but one of the companies which has been at the receiving end and has been canvassed for views , says : ‘ Part of the document looks as if it has been drafted by British Gas . ’ |
| 18 | Various bomb explosions and violent incidents , including assassinations have been attributed to British undercover . |
| 19 | It emerged that these had been supplied from British army depots on indents supposedly from the police . |
| 20 | But it is a feudalism where inequalities and poverty have been intensified by British colonialism and which has in the last thirty-seven years since independence been in a state of flux caused by the varying stages of capitalism which reach out to it from the towns and cities of the Indian sub-continent . |
| 21 | Around two-thirds of works on show have been drawn from British public collections but a number of other exhibits have not previously been published . |
| 22 | Labour leader John Smith said there was concern that equipment was supplied which could have been used against British personnel and that the truth about a secret change in policy appeared to have been concealed from the public . |
| 23 | But though the contents still belonged to the family trustees , the house had been sold to British Coal . |
| 24 | BEEF up to six years old which has been sold to British shoppers is ‘ 100pc okay ’ , Food Minister Nicholas Soames has insisted . |
| 25 | PILOT projects for a safety system aimed at preventing disasters like that at Clapham last December have been approved by British Rail . |
| 26 | During Joseph Chamberlain 's tenure of the Colonial Office all that had changed ; Africans had been replaced by British . |
| 27 | By 1973 agreement on a lease of the site had been reached with British Rail , and the first locomotives , buses and other exhibits were on site . |
| 28 | He was not prosecuted when he returned to England in 1919 and insisted that he had been employed by British Naval Intelligence . |
| 29 | Furthermore , almost all of this debt had been raised from British creditors . |
| 30 | Pinpoint monitoring has been provided by British Coal 's Coal Research Establishment at Stoke Orchard in Gloucestershire |