Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] at the british " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHOT-PUTTER Craig Watson has admitted testing positive for Clenbuterol at the British Athletics Championships in June . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | — Frankie Taylor to the guest of honour at the British Boxing Writers ' Club annual dinner . |
| 5 | In 1910 and 1911 he was mechanical engineer for the Board of Trade at the British pavilions at the Brussels and Turin exhibitions . |
| 6 | Richard Brown , director of policy at the British Chambers of Commerce , warned conditions were still far from rosy but said 1993 looked like being a healthier year . |
| 7 | Her curriculum vitae reads like Raymond Chandler 's : ‘ My jobs have included post-doctoral research , school-teaching , Head of Information at the British Antarctic Survey , and selling life insurance ’ . |
| 8 | Writers Fay Weldon and Marina Warner and Colin MacCabe , the former head of production at the British Film Institute , were among witnesses appearing before the Video Appeals Committee , called to examine a decision by the British Board of Film Classification to refuse a release certificate to ‘ Visions of Ecstasy ’ . |
| 9 | But small British booksellers will be able to sell with VAT at the British rate ( i.e. zero ) . |
| 10 | The state-owned Scottish Nuclear company , which operates Scotland 's two nuclear plants , has decided to " dry store " most of its spent nuclear fuel , rather than send it for reprocessing at the British Nuclear Fuels plant at Sellafield . |
| 11 | 9.8 Electronic Distance Measurement device in use at the British Museum 's excavation at Torbryan Caves in Devon . |
| 12 | In Paris he bought mince pies and English marmalade , took Colette to tea at the British Dairy , shared a blazing plum pudding with her at Christmas , drank whisky instead of wine at a dinner party at Fouquet 's , spent two summer holidays in Dieppe because it was so English , and there made friends with Walter Sickert , William Nicholson , Reggie Turner , Ada Leverson , Marie Tempest and Max Beerbohm . |
| 13 | [ Manuscript of the memoirs on deposit at the British Library ( India Office Library and Records ) , MS Eur G.118 ; Alfred Spencer ( ed . ) , |
| 14 | By 1823 , when George IV presented his father 's library to the nation for deposit at the British Museum , the collection comprised 65,000 volumes , 19,000 pamphlets , and the king 's topographical collection of some 50,000 maps and charts . |