Example sentences of "place [prep] british " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a hired car , a motorhome or even on horseback , America is the place for British visitors to go it alone . |
| 2 | They seem to think that bringing foreign coal into this country and burning it in place of British coal will do something to limit carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 3 | Already cable television companies have installed their telephones in place of British Telecom 's in more than two hundred thousand homes . |
| 4 | The fact was that there was no place in British films for an actor of Burton 's particular quality and no director to take him up . |
| 5 | The one fact which seems to emerge was that changes were taking place in British villas round about 360 and this was reflected in the two maps , figs. 6.1 and 6.2 , included in this 1969 study . |
| 6 | ‘ Latin-ness ’ , and in particular ‘ Italian-ness ’ , has an established place in British pop culture as never before . |
| 7 | Unwin 's early place in British town planning has already been noted ( see pp. 63 ) : at New Earswick , Letchworth and Hampstead , where traditions of vernacular architecture , linked to new forms of residential layout dictated by informality , open space and densities lower than had been the norm , provided both a practical base for a newly developing profession and a rallying cry for the future . |
| 8 | It was on the teetotal platform in September 1833 that ‘ Dicky ’ , as temperance reformers affectionately called him , won his modest place in British history . |
| 9 | I was conscious that here I belonged to a community with roots in the distant past and a distinguished place in British history . |
| 10 | Oxen have an important place in British history . |
| 11 | But with hindsight , the effects of such works can seem limited in comparison with the impact of other , more structural , changes that were taking place within British culture at the time . |
| 12 | But they were ultimately dashed when China insisted that Hong Kong diplomats take second place to British representatives , thus demoting the views of the colony and effectively limiting the talks to the Britain and China . |
| 13 | The story enshrined the belief that has developed in recent years that people who place bolts are villains who have no place on British soil . |
| 14 | In view of the importance of signalling and telecommunications to the railways , would it not be sensible quietly to contemplate the proposition of an independent inquiry into all the technological changes that are taking place on British Rail signalling ? |
| 15 | The advance towards the EEC had , of course , taken place without British participation , since Britain could not accept the fundamental supranational principle . |
| 16 | That lifts him above Mark Petchey into fourth place among British players behind Jeremy Bates 140 , Chris Wilkinson 's career-best 160 and Andrew Castle 182 . |