Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] at the british [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | has had a distinguished career at the British Museum . |
| 2 | One visionary speaker at the British Association ( science ) meeting in 1984 spoke of the likelihood of rats the size of wolves inheriting the Earth in 50 million years time , when Man — in all probability — is no longer on the scene . |
| 3 | The new funds will be used to improve transport , including the purchase of two more aircraft and a small trawler and building a hard runway at the British Rothera base on the Graham Land Peninsula . |
| 4 | Leslie Wolf-Phillips , ‘ A Long Look at the British Constitution ’ 37 Parliamentary Affairs ( 1984 ) , pp. 385 , 398–401 |
| 5 | Both he and Fitzroy Maclean were bidden to dine with the Prime Minister at the British Embassy on 8 August . |
| 6 | In Three Men in a Boat he tells how , having gone through a medical dictionary at the British Museum — to check if he had hayfever — he decided he had everything in the book except housemaids knee . |
| 7 | As the subject of historical studies , and the heroine of romantic fiction , Mary Queen of Scots has a massive lead over all other earthly Maries , only the Virgin scoring more heavily — as even the most cursory glance at the British Library Catalogue of Printed Books makes clear . |
| 8 | At the same time in February 1947 American intelligence spokesmen told the assistant military adviser at the British mission in Tokyo that the communist threat had subsided since November and that the main threat to public order came from rightists . |
| 9 | Instead , thanks to Adolf Hitler , he was employed as military attaché at the British Embassy in Lisbon where he unofficially represented SOE . |
| 10 | BROTHERS Martin and Graham Bell — Britain 's leading World Cup skiers — continued their expected dominance at the British Land British National Championships in Tignes , France . |
| 11 | In 1967 I was awarded the Rome scholarship and I spent a marvellous year at the British School in Rome . |
| 12 | This quartet became the driving force at the British end of the project . |