Example sentences of "that britain had " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a military exercise , however , many gaps in British naval and air provision had been shown up ; but it was a spectacular triumph , the first that Britain had known since the 1950s . |
| 2 | By 1970 , with the passing of the old empire , these were all over , and only the totally unexpected war with Argentina over the Falklands in 1982 interrupted what was one of the longest periods of unbroken peace that Britain had known since the later middle ages . |
| 3 | After the 1987 election there was speculation that Britain had moved into an era of one-party politics or a predominantly one-party system . |
| 4 | Beaverbrook and Churchill agreed with him that Britain had compromised enough and the issue of economic control of air routes could be decided later . |
| 5 | With the publication of the Foreign Relations of the United States volumes on the Korean War and the release of the British documents it was evident that Britain had played a major role in the important decisions taken in the early stages of the war , and in particular the decision to change the aim of the operation from being merely to repel the aggressor north of the 38th parallel to that of achieving a unified Korea . |
| 6 | The effect was explosive , and deeply embarrassing to the government 's position , which for years had been obstructive — to such an extent that Britain had long been known as ‘ The Dirty Man of Europe ’ . |
| 7 | With some reason did another Frenchman remark at this time that Britain had become no more than a colony of the American film industry . |
| 8 | The official also said that Britain had failed to account for its decision to move the colony 's main naval base out of the centre of Hong Kong , a move which he believed would have serious repercussions for the stationing of the Chinese military in the territory after the 1997 transfer of power . |
| 9 | The prince stressed that Britain had produced the world 's most successful language but , as its use in the media and theatres showed , it had become impoverished , sloppy and limited . |
| 10 | The prince stressed that Britain had produced the world 's most successful language but as its use in the media and theatres showed , it had become impoverished , sloppy and limited . |
| 11 | Selwyn Lloyd pointed out in the House of Commons , during a debate on the operations in the Oman , that Britain had to honour two types of obligation . |
| 12 | Admiral Mountbatten and Professor Zuckerman had visited the United States in the autumn of 1959 and had been shown the massive underground silos of the Titan intercontinental ballistic missiles , and had concluded , quite rightly , that Britain had neither the resources nor the need to enter the land-based ICBM league . |
| 13 | The Treasury 's recent draft treaty revealed new thinking on some of EMU 's details , with , for instance , an option for the new central-banking institution to be independent of governments ( a suggestion that Britain had opposed ) . |
| 14 | The agreement contradicted the promise of Arab self-rule that Britain had made to Sherif Hussein of Mecca ( King Hussein 's great-grandfather ) and has become a byword for duplicity . |
| 15 | But it would at least ensure that Britain had a more broadly-educated elite — and more broadly-educated political leaders . |
| 16 | The Americans were friendly and polite , but there was no mistaking their view that Britain had gone downhill to the point that we had become an irrelevance . |
| 17 | The British had been taken to the cleaners because foolish politicians in post-war Britain had elected to produce sociologists instead of engineers , and the predictable end result was that Britain had been short on wealth creators and long on spenders . |
| 18 | When asked if he thought that Britain had any chance at all , he was more reassuring . |
| 19 | Unemployment had continued to remain at more than one million , despite the fact that Britain had returned to the gold standard and free trade in 1925 — actions which , it was suggested , would revive world trade and reduce unemployment . |
| 20 | No story better illustrates the importance of the English-speaking world that Britain had brought into being , than James Flanagan 's reception . |
| 21 | Appreciating that Britain had become even more vulnerable to air attack , children living in ‘ target areas ’ , such as London , were again evacuated into country areas , and in June 1940 , Strand-on-the-Green School was closed in Chiswick and reopened in Cornwall . |
| 22 | In his position as the British Prime Minister , Harold Macmillan announced , in July 1961 , that the British government wished to negotiate joining the Common Market , i.e. the European Economic Community , but the French President , de Gaulle , fearing that France would lose her position as the leader of the six member countries , was not keen on the British , entry , despite the agreement of the other five nations , The special relationship that Britain had with the U.S.A. was also disliked by de Gaulle and , in any event , the French government wanted special provisions to protect French agriculture , so he effectively blocked Britain 's entry into the E.E.C . |
| 23 | While other European countries ( not to mention the United States ) were struggling to comply with a 50 mg/litre nitrate limit , the minister revealed that Britain had once again discovered unique drawbacks to the proposed solution to pollution , which made the cure , as it were , worse than the disease . |
| 24 | Following the Sowan affair the Foreign Office expelled the five-man team of Mossad agents that Britain had permitted to work unofficially in London . |
| 25 | On the grounds that Britain had a good stab at the job last time round , observers feel that a German or Frenchman should get first refusal if Quisigaard can be eased out . |
| 26 | New Scientist also revealed that Britain had an answer to Rubik 's cube . |
| 27 | Sir Frank added that Britain had no ‘ power to do anything other than see if it can influence the French or whichever country it may be . |
| 28 | For it would effectively mean that Britain had gone bust . |
| 29 | For by seeking to claim credit for the fact that Britain had not imposed a visa regime , Mr Wardle implicitly suggested that such measures obstruct refugees from gaining access to countries where they can seek asylum ( as indeed Amnesty believes they do ) . |
| 30 | Yet it was precisely to avoid the kind of obstructionism that Britain had indulged in in the past that participation in the new structure was made conditional upon prior agreement to the principle of a supranational authority . |