Example sentences of "that the british [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The illusion persisted that the British might have succeeded if their diplomacy had been more sensitive and subtle , and if Macmillan himself had been more alive to the timing of the presidential election . |
| 2 | The British pointedly refused to endorse the two major conditions that de Gaulle placed on an armistice with the local authorities : an opportunity for Free France to administer the mandated territories and recruit soldiers and civilians from them ; and a guarantee that the British would respect all of France 's rights in the region . |
| 3 | And , as we have seen , on the face of it things have moved on a little in the direction that the British would wish . |
| 4 | It was built before the war , and I have a Shanks loo , which makes me think that the British must have had a hand in building it . |
| 5 | It was decided that the British should move forward , as agreed with the French High Command some years earlier , to latch on to the extreme left wing of the French Army : at this time General Charles Lanrezac 's Fifth Army . |
| 6 | The research has shown , for the first time , that the British will stop using cars if the bus fares are low enough . |
| 7 | ‘ Only that the British will keep quiet about the fact that he 's in their hands . ’ |
| 8 | Never mind the exploitation and atrocities wreaked on whole countries in order that the British could plunder and fill their coffers from our raw materials and the sweat of our cheap labour . |
| 9 | Even if deterrence failed , such attacks would inflict more injury than anything that the British could hope to achieve with conventional forces . |
| 10 | They agreed , however , that the British could collaborate in the Skybolt development and buy it on very favourable terms . |
| 11 | The policies pursued were not always pleasing to Washington , and showed that the British could have a mind of their own . |
| 12 | The upshot , however , was that the British could buy the latest mark of Polaris missile without warheads , which they would provide themselves , and could fit them into five British-built nuclear submarine hulls . |