Example sentences of "at british " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hoare Govett was identified as an early buyer , pointing the finger at British Aerospace , one of the stockbroking firm 's corporate clients . |
| 2 | Mr Morton has long been rumoured as a possible successor to Sir Bob Reid at British Rail . |
| 3 | YORK HOUSE 9 October : The Duchess of Kent this morning attended the launch of Tears and Smiles — The Hospice Handbook by Martyn Lewis at British Telecom Tower , London W1 . |
| 4 | China fury at British base move |
| 5 | In the first term of office , strikes at British Leyland , British Steel , and British Rail , and lengthy disruption by civil servants and health service workers failed to move ministers . |
| 6 | Workers at British Leyland and in the coal industry rejected the advice of union leaders to strike over wages or job losses . |
| 7 | In hindsight he wishes he had been more patient , particularly with the twenty-nine different unions he had to deal with at British Steel . |
| 8 | A case in point was a series of devastating strikes that Finniston had to weather at British Steel in 1974 . |
| 9 | The special relationship Finniston forged between top management and the work-force at British Steel is epitomised by the fact that he was given farewell parties by each of the seven major steelworks when he came to leave the corporation at the end of ten years . |
| 10 | Finniston 's greatest disappointment during his time at British Steel was that he never succeeded in persuading the unions to form a single group to simplify negotiations . |
| 11 | But Finniston still harbours the belief that the wealth of experience he acquired during his ten years at British Steel could have been put to better service for the nation . |
| 12 | It was a particularly testing time at British Steel as we were still engaged in the major retrenchment exercise and we also had the very difficult task of keeping the steel mills operating during the miners ' strike . |
| 13 | In a way this job at British Coal is a particularly gruelling one . |
| 14 | If his successor at British Coal were appointed from within the corporation he considers that it would be impertinent to tell him how the job should be done . |
| 15 | It is important to create , as I 've tried to do at British Coal , a sense of challenge . |
| 16 | One of his great disappointments at British Aerospace , he confesses , was that : |
| 17 | Pearce could have done with more than the seven years he had at British Aerospace to achieve the kind of management culture he would have liked to have bequeathed to the company . |
| 18 | They told me that sexual examination is a routine part of the entry certificate procedure at British Diplomatic missions in the Indian subcontinent . |
| 19 | Why not look at British first ? |
| 20 | He had studied the latest Russian , German and French film theories , spent six months mixing with movie people in Hollywood , then gone on to train at British Instructional Pictures , a maker of successful non-fiction films which moved into drama production in the late 1920s . |
| 21 | But there was concern at British isolation from events . |
| 22 | Film chiefs thought Kylie uttering such abandoned words were not suitable for a clip to advertise the film at British cinemas under a ‘ PG ’ — Parental Guidance — certificate . |
| 23 | John Ritblat at British Land takes the same view and backs it with money . |
| 24 | At British Leyland there was open war between moderate shop stewards and militants . |
| 25 | COMMUTERS stood on tracks disrupting London-bound trains yesterday in protest at British Rail 's ‘ scorched earth ’ policy for eliminating the perennial problem of leaves on the line More than 50 people at Carshalton , Surrey , swapped season tickets for placards to protest at the transformation of leafy tracksides into what one called a ‘ scene from Apocalypse Now ’ , the film about the Vietnam war which showed the effects of mass defoliation with napalm . |
| 26 | True , the two countries ' systems of choosing a leader and choosing a government are different , but there have been enough historic parallels to make Americans peer keenly at British elections . |
| 27 | In the past few years I have been involved in a Seminar for senior administrators from the Third World studying at British Universities A group of 25 or 30 is gathered each year at Plockton in Wester Ross by the British Council , the ODA and the Highland Board . |
| 28 | However , at British Airways Cargo it is the global implications of the Single Market which are receiving most attention , ’ says Peter White . |
| 29 | But by 1890 the competition imposed on the world by Britain and its nearest rivals in north-western Europe had returned a hundredfold , and there no longer seemed a possibility of escape : if the British did not colonize , others would , and at British expense . |
| 30 | Trouble is , people love to sneer at British products . |