Example sentences of "to british " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three new squads will be formed in addition to the Davis Cup squad , and represent the most tangible development of the Cellnet 's sponsorship since the country 's leading cellular phone network operator announced its six-figure commitment to British men 's tennis last autumn . |
| 2 | Manufactured to conform to British Standards , the 57R can be relied upon to meet stringent accuracy tolerances . |
| 3 | Sally Greengross , Director of Age Concern England , has written to British Telecom ( BT ) expressing concern about the likely effects on older people of the price rises announced on 1 August ( see Information Circular , September 1991 ) . |
| 4 | Yet the title of ‘ the world 's most luxurious train' was snatched away in 1985 by a still more exclusive charter operation introduced to British metals by a company which owned none of its own locomotives or coaching stock . |
| 5 | The music by Benjamin Britten includes some part of the War Requiem which means far more to British audiences than mere decorative patterning . |
| 6 | Well , it is written by an American for Americans so some of the gear and some of the terminology will be unfamiliar to British climbers , but most of it is very relevant . |
| 7 | This was in The Little Review for May 1919 , where Williams was taking issue with praise of Eliot by one of Pound 's British friends , Edgar Jepson ; but Williams 's hostility to British culture ran deeper than that , and was to be a permanent feature of his outlook . |
| 8 | Within months of the signing ceremony , China was objecting vigorously to British proposals for introducing a meaningful degree of democracy to Hong Kong 's political structure . |
| 9 | There are also rules on the placing of advertising that will bring minor changes to British practice . |
| 10 | The stern warning from Admiral Trost about possible effects on the special relationship between the United States and Britain came as a surprise to British officials . |
| 11 | POTENTIAL investors in a privatised coal industry face hidden dangers which could be financially disastrous , a former legal adviser to British Coal warned , writes Patricia Wynn Davies . |
| 12 | Securing long-term contracts is of critical importance to British Coal , which supplies 75 per cent of its output to the electricity industry . |
| 13 | The latest proposals involve the use of pre-payment cards comparable to British Telecom 's green phonecards . |
| 14 | This directed that a number of Czechs and dissident Yugoslavs , who had infiltrated an area in Austria east of that covered by the Allied V Corps , should be treated as disarmed enemy troops and evacuated to British concentration camps in Italy . |
| 15 | Constables Stephen Mardon , from Scalloway , and Alex Forbes , from Lerwick , flew from the main island to investigate , hitching a lift aboard an eight-seater plane on charter to British Telecom . |
| 16 | Having flatly denied that he has any intention of going to British Rail , Sir David Plastow , chairman of Vickers , yesterday announced that he has installed a ‘ safety valve ’ guaranteeing that he will not be solely responsible should his company hit the slippery slope . |
| 17 | As a producer , MacCabe is naturally enough dismayed by this pro-directorial bias : ‘ If you look at what 's been happening to British cinema over the last 10 years or so , then it 's clear that it has tended to be production-led — names like Working Title , Palace Films or Zenith are as important as those of any individual director . |
| 18 | But behind it all is Scott , who is self-appointed and unsalaried producer , director and spokesman for an enterprise that never occured to British sport itself . |
| 19 | These informants were turned over to British intelligence in 1981 under an operation code-named Ward . |
| 20 | If the Brigade was still around the village and things got a bit quieter I would keep that date , and treat them to British steak and kidney , etc . |
| 21 | To British voters , especially those who identify strongly with a political party , ‘ energetic ’ or ‘ decisive ’ probably imply approval : for them , images are at the margin between perceptions and attitudes . |
| 22 | The real challenge is to devise mechanisms for extending the Public Service Ideal to the British press or to British news media as a whole while minimizing the damage to the Libertarian Ideal . |
| 23 | But it owed everything to political manoeuvres and economic pressures in southern Africa , and nothing to British influence . |
| 24 | In many areas , then , the Thatcher government in the period 1979–83 was not far removed in many respects from the post-war outlook of the kind familiar to British experience since 1945 . |
| 25 | The system of rent tribunals for furnished and post-1939 unfurnished houses is in our opinion a disgrace to British justice . |
| 26 | By a crowning touch of irony , the last-mentioned were still to be treated in the United Kingdom as equivalent to British subjects . |
| 27 | Professor Walters has reinforced Mrs Thatcher 's opposition to British entry to the European Monetary System ( favoured by Sir Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson ) and to her Chancellor 's policy in 1988 of managing the exchange rate to maintain downward pressure on inflation . |
| 28 | They therefore had no wish to be restricted by British manoeuvring for postwar influence , and were unsympathetic to British demands for international control . |
| 29 | Food was still rationed and it was very much a question of making the best use of available resources and we had absolutely unlimited demand — a very false situation as it turned out when you think about what happened to British industry afterwards . |
| 30 | I do n't think what you run makes any difference , because I 've run companies of very diverse natures and the principles that apply to British Steel at one end apply equally to a small company at the other end of the scale . |