Example sentences of "[noun] britain have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | G. Britain has been occupied by people for a long , long time . |
| 2 | In a journey back through the history of crime and delinquency , Pearson shows that for generations Britain has been plagued by the same problems and fears as today . |
| 3 | Until today 's new proposals Britain had been cautioning against such an operation because of the dangers to aircrew and the risk of killing or injuring people on the ground . |
| 4 | Great Britain had been associated with the stabilizing system by a skilful use of her Mediterranean fears , although Bismarck failed to turn association into alliance in 1889 . |
| 5 | The damaging feature of oralism in the last hundred years or so in Great Britain has been its total rejection of any other method of educating deaf children . |
| 6 | Since the early 1970s the proportion of adult cigarette smokers ( over 16 ) in Great Britain has been decreasing steadily [ 1 ] . |
| 7 | My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Transport is doing all that he can within Europe to achieve the speedy adoption of a Europewide directive , on which Great Britain has been in the lead , to get our Western European car manufacturing colleagues to do exactly the same . |
| 8 | This increase has been best documented with regard to voting behaviour in general elections , where a number of psephological surveys and statistical analyses support Johnston and Pattie 's conclusion that ‘ voters in Great Britain have been increasingly influenced by their local environment when evaluating the competing claims of the political parties … people are increasingly concerned about their local circumstances , and vote accordingly ’ ( 1988 , p. 10 ) . |
| 9 | Such examples of the extreme right as have emerged in contemporary Great Britain have been almost exclusively urban-based , often ( though not exclusively ) within parts of London . |
| 10 | Aggregated tables from the Census of Great Britain have been available since the 1966 Sample Census . |
| 11 | For most of this century Britain has been obsessed with the idea of holding the price of its currency above its natural value . |