Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [vb pp] to british " in BNC.
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| 1 | The keyboard setting should be set to British if you want to use the pound ( ) sign . |
| 2 | The Prime Minister , John Major , said last night that the rioting French fishermen should be brought to book and compensation should be paid to British firms whose fish were destroyed . |
| 3 | While we can not explain why this sense should be restricted to British English ( the Brown Corpus confirms Quirk et al. " s claim ) , it is possible to offer some explanation for its tendency to occur in the perfective aspect . |
| 4 | If suitable genes for gluten production could be added to British varieties , or if the genes in British wheat were made to produce more or better gluten , imports would be saved and farmers would get a higher price for a better quality wheat . |
| 5 | Cresson told UK Prime Minister John Major during a visit to London on Sept. 24 that compensation would be paid to British farmers whose lamb consignments had been attacked in France , and that protection would be provided for British and Irish lorries . |
| 6 | CMFT ; have announced that their next major restoration will be the Fleet ( Fairchild ) Cornell CF-FLY , which will be restored to British Commonwealth Air Training Plan colours and markings . |
| 7 | Decisions on pits which will survive will be left to British Coal , which has also been asked to prepare for privatisation as soon as legislation can be put in place . |
| 8 | The dump will hold the highly-radioactive waste until it can be taken to British Nuclear Fuel 's Sellafield works for reprocessing to extract uranium and plutonium . |