Example sentences of "britain [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Britain is fast becoming a sweatshop economy based on cheap labour and no investment and the Tories have proved it .
2 Compared with other large industrialized ( and some developing ) nations , Britain is notably lacking in natural resources .
3 This partly reflects the fact that strikes are a dramatic form of conflict ( or at least they can be portrayed as dramatic events ) , and partly it reflects the fact that public opinion in Britain is firmly fixed upon strikes .
4 Tin is the only member of the metals loosely bracketed in the ‘ strategic ’ category in which Britain is even approaching self sufficiency .
5 She was a founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768 , and in Britain is generally associated in the popular mind with Robert Adam 's decorative schemes .
6 Similarly , the notion of fostering a local enterprise culture has been suggested both inside and outside Parliament ( Trippier , 1989 ) as a potential source of urban renewal and in Britain is officially inscribed as a goal of all Inner City Task Forces .
7 Australia 's natural partners are the booming south-east Asian economies while Britain is heavily occupied with matters European .
8 Local authority testing in Britain is rarely used for accountability purposes .
9 The Ordnance Survey of Great Britain is also providing a limited amount of digital map data and DEMs .
10 Attention is focused on Scotland but evidence from the rest of Britain is also included .
11 Finally , despite all the pejorative remarks and many statements along the lines of ‘ I personally do not think very highly of headhunters ’ , most accept fully that the headhunting business in Britain is here to stay .
12 The dreadful effects of this on the wealthy landowners and merchants of Britain is well documented by Ammianus Marcellinus , and have been the subject of a recent study .
13 Britain is well placed with reserves of coal , oil and gas which must be husbanded in a national energy policy to balance the needs of the present with those of the future .
14 The report states that Britain is well equipped in terms of research and development to meet the opportunities but " the country 's manufacturers appears incapable of supporting the development of new ideas and their translation into new products on the strength of home markets " .
15 A Meetings Industry association poll confirmed fears that Britain is increasingly losing conference business to Europe .
16 Most of lowland Britain is intensively cultivated ; upland areas tend to be used for sheep farming and/or for game ( grouse , deer etc. ) as well as for other recreational activities .
17 Britain is widely regarded as having a political system which scores high on political institutionalization and low on personal leadership .
18 If all the claims of timber merchants and suppliers are to be believed , most tropical timber sold in Britain is already produced on a sustainable basis .
19 Just as America has diverse regional economies , so Britain is best seen as a series of distinct local markets .
20 Education in Britain is best seen in pyramidal terms .
21 Flu vaccine ‘ take-up ’ in Britain is low compared with other EC countries .
22 Much of Britain is densely populated and intensively farmed , and there is a long history of metal mining and movement of minerals and metals .
23 Britain is still gripped by recession , public sector borrowing is high , inflation running at 4.1pc and there are 2.6m registered unemployed .
24 Meanwhile , the Prime Minister has stressed Britain is still committed to the Trident missile programme .
25 They know that , if Britain is really to remain at the heart of Europe , we must sign — if not at Maastricht , then soon after .
26 And if Britain is really gripped by flutter fever there will be TWO £1 million top prizes each week .
27 As for the second alleged opt-out , the right hon. Gentleman confuses the distinction between the social dimension of the Community , to which Britain is fully committed — it has implemented all 19 of the directives thus passed — and the so-called social chapter , which deals with employment and labour laws where they are best determined in this country and in this House , and not imposed from outside .
28 In NATO , Britain is certainly committed to common aims , and defence policy must often be cleared with NATO allies first .
29 Almost one in 10 of the population of Britain is currently covered by private insurance .
30 The recession Britain is now enduring is , above all , the result of a failure to compete internationally , while hardly a day went by during the campaign without some ‘ jitters ’ on the stock or money markets reflecting fears in the international financial community of a Labour victory .
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