Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] a british " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was withdrawn from a British primary school in 1987 . |
| 2 | Once a sleepy fishing village , the Lion City ( which is how Singapore 's original Indian name translates ) was claimed as a British trading post by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819 , and became a British colony in 1867 . |
| 3 | He was rescued by a British destroyer . |
| 4 | The drawing was located in a British Museum collection , and showed not only the shields which had formerly adorned the window but identified the families whose arms they were , and in some cases gave the tinctures of the fields and charges . |
| 5 | In 1830 a search was made by a British Government expedition , but nothing was found . |
| 6 | Does the Prime Minister realise that many people in Great Britain greatly welcome the fact that the first Heads of Government meeting in the United Nations ' history was chaired by a British Prime Minister ? |
| 7 | I was born to a British mother , and a father serving in the British Army in Malaysia during 1963 . |
| 8 | He did not immediately contemplate any drastic change in his filmmaking aesthetic , since his first Hollywood picture , Rebecca ( 1940 ) , was based on a British book and used British actors , and it was some time before he made a completely American picture . |
| 9 | On 20 April 1964 Lonsdale was exchanged for a British businessman , Greville Wynne , who had become involved in espionage and been imprisoned in Russia . |
| 10 | ‘ A bonfire of the certainties ’ — the phrase was coined by a British politician in 1989 . |
| 11 | His case was handled by a British lawyer , F.H . |
| 12 | He was even able to produce the fragile Turkish deeds to the serail in Jaffa and British documents proving family ownership of orange groves in Yazour on the main Jaffa–Jerusalem road ( 32 dunums ) , near Holon ( 76 dunums ) and at Beit Dajan ( 240 dunums ) and to property in Jerusalem , part of which was rented to a British assistant district commissioner . |