Example sentences of "between british " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plans evolved for new trains for the 1990s Channel Tunnel workings between British provincial centres and Paris , Brussels , and beyond being formed into eighteen coach trains with a power car at each end like an extended electric version of the InterCity 125 diesels , but with the capability to split into nine-coach trains push-pull style with a single power car , perhaps they are all things to all men . |
| 2 | All the same , there is by and large a crucial difference here between British and American attitudes , and one that is today every bit as marked as it was in 1912 . |
| 3 | Some of Hyam 's most impressive passages describe male bisexuality : in many of the cultures which the British conquered or governed , sexual relations between men carried none of the odium or guilt to which they were subject in the United Kingdom ( particularly from the 1890s ) , and he has unearthed much evidence of cheerful , matter-of-fact but discreetly conducted sexual relations between British men overseas . |
| 4 | Encouraging them were the new links between British and American film companies that grew out of the quota legislation . |
| 5 | There is a significant divide between Cavalcanti 's surrealism and Powell 's romantic mysticism but , within their bizarre plot , the Powell-Pressburger team also show us how land girls were being absorbed into the rural workforce , and the sort of connections that were being formed between British and American soldiers . |
| 6 | Like previous government action to boost the native film industry , Eady strengthened the ties between British and American production . |
| 7 | He said that after 3 ½ years of competition between British Telecom and the Cable and Wireless subsidiary , Mercury Communications , it was time to survey customers ' experience and , if necessary , ‘ identify practices which might still be inhibiting competition ’ . |
| 8 | In 1970 an agreement was reached between British Waterways Board , Leicestershire County Council , and the Leicestershire Branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England to make part of the site accessible to the public and , so far as possible , to clear sufficient of the track to enable people to get some idea of how the system had been constructed and how it operated . |
| 9 | This was used as one of the major defences of the British aid programme in Nepal which was to concentrate their efforts in villages with a predominant presence of ex-Gurkha soldiers which would encourage both better rapport between British field officers and farmers , as well as an ( ex- ) army-style sense of organisation , discipline and work-practice within the village itself . |
| 10 | He is keenly aware of the paradoxical gulf between British standards in distance events , and the much-lauded strength of our sprinters . |
| 11 | When Johnny moved to West Ham for £60,000 plus the return of the ill-fated John Brett in March 1962 , the fee was the biggest between British clubs at that time , and his career flourished amid the glamour and publicity of the 1st Division . |
| 12 | Under the rail usage agreement between British Rail , SNCF and Eurotunnel half the Tunnel 's capacity will be used for through rail services , and the charges imposed by Eurotunnel will form the largest single element in Tunnel revenue . |
| 13 | Within the Dutch campaign , or between British and Dutch activists ? |
| 14 | He has argued that differences between British and Indian legal norms inevitably led to a divorce in Indian minds between justice and the colonial courts . |
| 15 | This interpretation , which broadly parallels Bernard Cohn 's argument that the Indian judicial system was manipulated because of culture conflict between British and Indian legal norms , does not explain why Sri Lankans used the courts so often . |
| 16 | No drastic changes resulted from their fall into disuse , for there was broad agreement between British and Sri Lankan norms as to what constituted crime . |
| 17 | Not all of these differences were primarily due to cultural confrontations between British and Sri Lankan values . |
| 18 | There were however some differences between British and Sri Lankan definitions of crime . |
| 19 | A more important difference between British and indigenous judicial norms lay in the means of determining guilt or innocence . |
| 20 | The £470 million agreement between British Airways and USAir was in ruins after fierce opposition from rival airlines and officials who blocked the deal 48 hours before its planned Christmas Eve signing . |
| 21 | I hope you will join us to help maintain the important link between British Forces and their families . |
| 22 | Delivery of RAF Spitfires to the Mediterranean by the Wasp has been cited as the first large-scale act of co-operation between British and American forces during World War Two . |
| 23 | Astra 's former chairman , Gerald James , alleged in this column earlier this year that he and most of his fellow directors had been victimised and the firm sold off to protect dark secrets about arms for Iraq and a cosy monopoly relationship between British Aerospace and the Ministry of Defence . |
| 24 | THE links between British Rail and Preston were further reinforced with the rededication of Inter-City electric locomotive 856212 at Preston Station on Saturday , May 16 . |
| 25 | While the British Gallery will provide a survey of the achievements of British art , it will also explore the interchanges between British , European and American art . |
| 26 | The excavations , a joint venture between British and Italian authorities ( Provincia d'Isernia ) and directed for the last twelve years by the School 's director , Dr Richard Hodges , have shown that for a brief period in the early ninth century San Vincenzo was an exceptional place with far-flung connections . |
| 27 | French auctioneers say the contrast between British and French rates of VAT ( 5.5% sales tax on original works , books and certain signed pieces of furniture and 18.6% on the rest ) will cause art works to be drained towards London to the detriment of the Paris art market . |
| 28 | The main differences between British and American English are also explained . |
| 29 | The difference in attitudes to musketry between British and European armies was pronounced . |
| 30 | Liverpool , Merseyside computer games company Psygnosis Ltd , which has quadrupled its exports in the last three years — and has taken Japan by storm , was another winner as was Ipswich , Suffolk-based BT & D Technologies Ltd , the joint optoelectronic manufacturing venture between British Telecommunications Plc , E I du Pont de Nemours & Co Inc of Wilmington , Delaware . |