Example sentences of "of british " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenya Asians are now working hard in the darkness and grime of British cities , where Patel is among the commonest names in the telephone directory . |
| 2 | In the later years of the Eighties a series of events and episodes has served to direct the attention of British readers to the issue of authorship and its autobiographical character or constituent . |
| 3 | The most vital explosion of British theatre writing since the Second World War came with the foundation of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre in London , under the direction of George Devine : the first season mounted there included John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger . |
| 4 | Also , investment patterns in both parts of Ireland are increasingly similar , being a mixture of British , international , local , and cross-border companies . |
| 5 | For the hard-line republican position , there is even a duality : protestant loyalists are taken as foreigners with an alien culture , and as either a pariah group — the mere instrument of British imperialism — or simply not there . |
| 6 | It is adhered to by increasing numbers who have become disillusioned with British identity and have seen Paisley 's words about the traitorous nature of British governments become reality as protestant — loyalist domination in Ulster has been continuously eroded . |
| 7 | Catholic nationalists who support or condone the killing of protestant loyalists do so on the grounds that members of the Northern police force and part-time army are either agents of British imperialism or maintaining alien protestant — loyalist power in a part of Ireland . |
| 8 | This was made explicit in terms of the sense of British identity which protestant loyalists experience : ‘ This implies in particular , in respect of Northern protestants , that the civil and religious liberties that they uphold and enjoy will be fully protected and their sense of Britishness accommodated ’ ( New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : i. 22–3 ) . |
| 9 | Plans to make next year 's show at the Festival the biggest ever in Britain of British art . |
| 10 | The Campaign won media attention as a result of its outspoken criticism of the state of British beer , backed by punchy public relations , marches , demonstrations and the launch of the Good Beer Guide , which listed those pubs that still sold ‘ the real thing ’ . |
| 11 | Generations of British people have been happily walking into pubs for years and drinking alcohol that they could buy for a fraction of the price in a supermarket or off-licence . |
| 12 | One of the real success stories of British film-making in the 80's was Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe 's production company ‘ Working Title ’ , and that success is continuing into the 90's . |
| 13 | The relationship between film makers and critics ; the perils of independent film-making ; a foreign view of British films etc . |
| 14 | For over a century the control of certain aspects of British social life has rested in the hands of the police forces of England and Wales . |
| 15 | Further that we shall petition government tor an abolition and nullifying of the foresaid Act from the records of British parliament ; that the members of parliament for this county shall present this petition , or any annexed thereto , to the two Houses of Parliament , and to the Privy Council , during the prorogation of parliament — ‘ Menzies was seething and he broke in on the last words . |
| 16 | On lower Second Avenue we passed the Telephone Bar and Grill whose front was constructed from a series of British telephone boxes . |
| 17 | SUPPORTERS OF BRITISH TENNIS . |
| 18 | ‘ It is therefore highly appropriate that we should support this innovative scheme to enhance the quality of British men 's tennis . ’ |
| 19 | The small party of British players competing in the Veteran 's World Championships in Perth at the end of April achieved greater successes overall than in previous years . |
| 20 | The Association of British Insurers , Aldermary House , 10–15 Queen Street , London , EC4N 1TT , Tel. 071–248 4477 , is a trade Association for insurance companies which can provide information about its members . |
| 21 | His chief officers formed a board which had a very considerable measure of authority to determine its own ways ( witness , for example , the Western Region 's adventure with diesel-hydraulic locomotives when the remainder of British Railways was following the diesel-electric path , or the Eastern Region 's policy of civil engineering for speed ) . |
| 22 | If anyone spoke , it was usually only to voice condemnation of British Rail for the time it took to get served . |
| 23 | Interestingly , though , Railfreight also derived some benefit from the contraction of British Steel 's steel-making activities . |
| 24 | So successful was the Class 59 , perhaps embarrassingly so from the viewpoint of British manufacturers , that the initial order for four machines was followed up by orders for five more , comprising one for additional Foster Yeoman traffic and four for the neighbouring but rival firm ARC . |
| 25 | A brief list shows how much ground he has covered since the strict rules of British censorship have been lifted . |
| 26 | They were able to drum up a great deal of press and radio material on the sorry plight of British beer . |
| 27 | CAMRA 's Pubs Group involves planners and architects in its work to preserve the quality of British pubs . |
| 28 | And so the Hops Marketing Board , like free school milk and NHS orange juice , disappeared into the black hole of British social history . |
| 29 | Without this attitude , and given the inventiveness of many beer advertisements , we can forget about our greatest asset , the local and traditional character of British brewing . |
| 30 | FOLLOWING P.A. Newton 's revelation that Scottish & Newcastle Breweries supplied quantities of Newcastle Brown and Tartan Keg to a pub adjacent to the Russian Parliament during the recent failed coup , I understand that the Morning Star , daily organ of British Communists , has started a campaign for Old Peculier to be supplied for the next coup attempt . |