Example sentences of "britain [vb past] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been several local , peripheral wars in which Britain had been engaged , notably that in Korea in 1950–3 , and a long series of conflicts to resolve colonial problems — Malaya in the late 1940s , Kenya and Cyprus in the 1950s , Suez ( most traumatically ) in 1956 , Aden and Southern Arabia in the sixties . |
| 2 | Having dismissed the basis of the EC Directive , the article now went on , as the government itself would like to imply , that , while others had muddled about wrongly trying to control nitrates , Britain had been engaged on work of an altogether higher order , ‘ in the interests of good water ’ . |
| 3 | There might have been considerable constitutional difficulties if it had turned out that , for the last 10 years , Britain had been ruled by a Martian , or a robot , or a vampire . |
| 4 | Liberals saw this as evidence that the dominions were more interested in going their own way , but Unionists retorted that Canada like Britain had been led astray by a radical government and that Canada 's decision was the result of Britain 's failure to offer preference . |
| 5 | As the Thatcher government gradually recovered from a shaky and difficult start to retain power by a hugely increased majority in 1983 , followed by another overwhelming electoral triumph ( in seats if not in votes ) in 1987 and as the spectacle was observed in 1989 of a Prime Minister remaining in unchallenged power for over a decade , comparable to Lord Liverpool if not yet Robert Walpole in the past , the belief took hold that the values and style of modern Britain had been transformed . |
| 6 | 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 . |