Example sentences of "off british " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jimmy Knapp , general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen , predicted that the Government 's scheme for selling off British Rail would help to guarantee the defeat of the Tories at the next election . |
| 2 | ‘ Interest rates twice as high as those of our competitors choke off British investment . |
| 3 | Revelations in February 1986 that the government was prepared to sell off British Leyland and Austin-Rover to American-owned companies provoked opposition from Conservative MPs in the affected constituencies which killed the proposals . |
| 4 | From this side of the Atlantic , the pointless remake of Wuthering Heights looks like a deliberate attempt to finish off British film ( crap dialogue , laughable Barnsley-by-the-Seine accent from Juliette Binoche and Sinéad O'Connor as Emily Brönte ) . |
| 5 | How long will the country continue to lose jobs and to lose access to the great national asset of our coal , given that the Government want to sell off British Coal overnight at a cheap price , for the benefit of the Treasury ? |
| 6 | Since Margaret Thatcher began the privatisation fever by selling off British Aerospace in 1981 , the Government has privatised almost 50 companies . |
| 7 | Monocultures " kill off British birdlife " |
| 8 | Even G. D. H. Cole , far more critical of the Communists than Strachey , could not see " any sharp line which marks off British Communists from other British Socialists " . |