Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] [art] british " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also aware of the military advantages of creating a nucleus of support for the British among the country 's ruling class . |
| 2 | A spokesperson at the Brazilian embassy in London said that Brazil did not want to become a regular base of support for the British presence in the Falkland Islands [ see also p. 37001 ] . |
| 3 | What was needed however was a concrete demonstration of support by the British government , and this was most unlikely to be forthcoming , no matter how much the Queen might personally have hoped for it . |
| 4 | Even the feeblest message of support from the British Young Socialists ( not of course from the Labour Party executive ) was cheered widely in Tiananmen Square . |
| 5 | For the safety of transport from China the request of protection by the British navy was not thought inappropriate . |
| 6 | In this debate , we are confronted with a squalid abdication by the Government of responsibility to the British people . |
| 7 | Below , the main points of contrast between the British and Spanish states are briefly sketched . |
| 8 | Harriet Harvey Wood , head of literature at the British Council , is awarded an OBE , as is Dorothy Butler in New Zealand for services to children 's literature . |
| 9 | Options will in future be capable of grant under the British Gas Sharesave Scheme during any period when the Directors consider exceptional circumstances exist which justify the grant of options at that time . |
| 10 | Their views reflect a lack of enthusiasm among the British people at large for John Major 's idea of European unity . |
| 11 | The building of the Grand Union coincided with the crucial years of struggle of the British armies in Europe . |
| 12 | We 've held two conferences on on erm Third World refugees of an academic kind and made proposals , some of which have had very concrete results in the form of aid from the British government to some of these groups . |
| 13 | In March this year it increased its presence in the UK with the acquisition of London Life , the British mutual insurer , which attracted a measure of opposition from the British group 's policyholders . |
| 14 | The prescriptive monarchy of the United Kingdom stands constitutionally isolated in a world where some forty independent republics , large and minuscule , trace their historical origin from a period of rule under the British Crown in Parliament . |
| 15 | Harmer 's reputation in the University Museum led to his appointment as keeper of zoology at the British Museum ( Natural History ) in 1907 and in 1919 to the position of director . |
| 16 | premier regiment of artillery in the British army , est. 1716 . |
| 17 | Back home seven months after his release from prison in Goa , Nicholas Brown is a bitter man , angry about what he sees as a complete lack of help from the British authorities . |
| 18 | To have surrendered all power over the issue of her coinage is significant enough , for reasons already argued ; to have done so for good must constitute the act of transfer of sovereignty by the British Parliament to another power . |
| 19 | This certainly did not apply to the next great dog of influence on the British show scene : Ch. |
| 20 | — Frankie Taylor to the guest of honour at the British Boxing Writers ' Club annual dinner . |
| 21 | Our orders of battle for the British forces of all three services currently deployed in the Gulf are the work of Michael Cox , a specialist compiler of ‘ orbats ’ of many periods . |
| 22 | This network was so well developed that when Captain Hugh Clapperton ‘ discovered ’ Kano in 1824 he was able to obtain cash from a local merchant in return for a bill of exchange on the British consul at Tripoli . |
| 23 | By contrast members of that younger and more ‘ populist ’ group of abolitionists envisaged addressing the universal abolition of slavery through the British and Foreign Society for the Universal Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade — reorganised from the Agency in March 1834 — and more permanently with the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society ( BFASS ) . |
| 24 | What Williams ' study sought to disprove were the currently entrenched theories concerning the underlying reasons for the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833 . |
| 25 | The reformers established a succession of central bodies claiming national leadership and co-ordination of the cause and adjacent to political power in London ; the Abolition Committee ( 1787 ) , the African Institution ( 1807 ) , the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Dominions ( the Anti-Slavery Society , 1823 ) , the British and Foreign Society for the Universal Abolition of Negro Slavery and the Slave Trade ( the successor to the Agency committee from 1834 ) , the Central Negro Emancipation Committee ( 1837 ) and the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society ( 1839 ) . |
| 26 | IDB Communications Group Inc reports that its IDB Worldcom unit , yesterday announced that it had signed a correspondent operating agreement with British Telecommunications Plc which allows it to provide international services to the UK ; IDB is in process of acquiring TRT , which took over the resale of capacity on the British Post Office 's phone network from National Networks Ltd . |
| 27 | These monographs are not only binding in the member countries , but also carry the force of law in the British Commonwealth and in former colonies of France , Spain and Belgium . |
| 28 | Dicey 's formulation of the idea of the ‘ rule of law ’ , while evoking the idea of Parliament and the courts as being the true fountains of law within the British constitution , is not without its ambiguities . |
| 29 | A glance at a table of ownership of the British press in 1987 ( Table 4.2 ) confirms that concern is still with us . |
| 30 | It was not just a question of climate as the British sometimes liked to think . |