Example sentences of "britain be " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the main brands of lager on sale in Britain are brewed here , not imported . |
| 2 | BLUE TOO : The attitudes and aspirations of a boy growing up in modern Britain are explored using ‘ Little Black Sambo ’ . |
| 3 | But the acid or neutral clays which are found in many parts of Britain are as good for lime haters are are acid sands . |
| 4 | Demographic changes in Britain are resulting in a varied ethnic minority population . |
| 5 | ‘ Fifty per cent of all people in Britain are educationally below average . ’ |
| 6 | There is scepticism that a return to controlling the growth of broad money supply would work when many of the economic pressures on Britain are external . |
| 7 | Southgate ( 1980 ) and Jones ( 1987 ) have shown how policewomen in Great Britain are principally involved with juvenile and female offenders , and the Policy Studies Institute found widespread discrimination against policewomen in the Metropolitan force ( 1983a : 19 , 29 , 163–8 ) . |
| 8 | The largest-selling newspapers in Britain are owned by swashbuckling businessmen who do not hesitate to interfere with the editorial content of their papers and whose personal politics are so well known to all their staff that the proprietors can set the political tone of their employees ' work without crude , direct , and explicit interference . |
| 9 | While the really poor live in privately-owned , deteriorating homes — and about 90 per cent of the houses in Britain are still privately-owned — the new council houses are occupied by those who will pay up to twice or three times as much in rent , even after allowing for a subsidy of at least 8s. 6d. a week , and often far more , out of the general rates and taxes . |
| 10 | Government decisions in Britain are made in the name ofthe Cabinet , in contrast to the United States where they are made in the name of the President . |
| 11 | Often their husbands are much older than them , not so much for traditional reasons as because men settled in Britain are considered of higher status and class and therefore , being more desirable as sons-in-law , they can find young brides . |
| 12 | Most Gujeratis in Britain are from East Africa and have come as refugees , often with large sections of their extended family . |
| 13 | Conditions there were the sort with which Asian women everywhere in Britain are familiar . |
| 14 | This firm statement of principle looks even more impressive when one considers that white women entering Britain are not subjected to these examinations . |
| 15 | Looked at collectively , the green movements in Britain are already numerically impressive . |
| 16 | Exporters in France , Italy and Britain are more exposed to the cheap dollar . |
| 17 | All flint mines in southern Britain are located on the Chalk ( fig. 6. 5 ) . |
| 18 | If there is a change in attitude , then I think it is that the young of Britain are now more outward looking not only towards Europe , but the wider world too . |
| 19 | Some cities in Britain are working on setting up telephone help lines for children to ring in and talk about death and their own experiences . |
| 20 | Ergo , high tax parties in modern Britain are doomed to defeat . |
| 21 | Milton 's defection from the final is , of course , a major blow , but Britain are still left with two very ‘ live ’ challengers . |
| 22 | SIR — What irony that the Iron Curtain of communo-socialism has collapsed throughout Eastern Europe , but we in Britain are on the verge of possibly turning back the clock 13 years to renew our disastrous affair with socialism . |
| 23 | As a result , £6 billion worth of foodstuffs that could be produced in Britain are imported — at a time when land is still being taken out of production for ‘ set-aside ’ . |
| 24 | Although European markets will be later than Britain in feeling any economic recovery coming from America , the bonus for investors is that share prices remain relatively undervalued and dividend policies , traditionally less generous than in America or Britain are now catching up , chivvied by foreign and domestic investors who are more demanding than in the past . |
| 25 | I would like him to explain to the Americans , whose US banner had ‘ his ’ rings the size of footballs , or to the Swedes , who had the Olympic logo emblazoned across their tracksuits , and to the many other teams why Great Britain are not entitled to wear it . |
| 26 | The main reason is that most executive cars in Britain are bought by companies for their managers and directors . |
| 27 | The majority of holdings in the uplands of Great Britain are farmed by owner-occupiers with an ageing population of farmers . |
| 28 | It seemed , said the Commission , ‘ unlikely that the Sitka spruce , Lodgepole and Scots pine and larch forests in the uplands of Britain are in immediate danger . |
| 29 | Taking up evidence from Greenpeace which simply drew figures from the national forest surveys coordinated by the UN ECE and EC , Sir Hugh wanted to know if the Forestry Commission accepted that ‘ the beech forests of Britain are among the worst affected in Europe ’ . |
| 30 | The idea is simple : masses of shops and services throughout mainland Britain are giving away Air Miles vouchers to customers spending money . |