Example sentences of "britain have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because Britain has been covered , during the last few weeks , with record levels of toxic and other dangerous substances . |
| 2 | On imports , Britain has been uniquely robust in the face of protest . |
| 3 | Britain has been muttering that if it perceives a ‘ consensus for democracy ’ in Hong Kong , it will start ‘ talking tough ’ to Peking at a diplomatic level , and perhaps even adopt the Legislative Council proposals for 1995 in the teeth of Chinese opposition and without regard to ‘ convergence ’ with the Basic Law . |
| 4 | People know the evidence of their pockets and are unlikely to be easily persauded that Mrs Thatcher 's Britain has been , or has yet become , the economic disaster area which Mr Kinnock depicted . |
| 5 | A MAJOR financial institution in Britain has been the victim of a £50m computerised theft in which the money was sent around the world in electronic parcels . |
| 6 | BRITAIN HAS been instructed by the European Community to suspend immediately key provisions of the 1988 Merchant Shipping Act , designed to repel a 100- strong armada of Spanish vessels fishing in United Kingdom waters . |
| 7 | Conservatism in Britain has been multifaceted but that tradition has been dominant . |
| 8 | The flu strain reported this week to be hitting offices , factories and schools throughout Britain has been identified as A/Shanghai ; the flu vaccine now available from doctors protects against it . |
| 9 | Under these conditions Hong Kong emigration to Britain has been very small . |
| 10 | So Britain has been stuck with trust-me pragmatism . |
| 11 | Britain has been resisting much of this , but none too skilfully . |
| 12 | Britain has been allocated 1.2 billion ecus ( £830m ) of ERDF money for 1988–91 . |
| 13 | Britain has been a loser country in a manifestly unfair trade environment . |
| 14 | Our knowledge of the identification and distribution of stone axes in Britain has been gained from a very long-running co-operative research effort involving archaeologists and petrologists : over the last fifty years more than 7500 axes have been examined petrologically . |
| 15 | Britain has been denied this freedom because it has never had a truly commercial broadcasting environment . |
| 16 | On the whole , especially at local level , the Left in Britain has been more goal orientated than the Right . |
| 17 | But , despite the potential , Britain has been tentative in expanding hospital services into the home , although the distress caused to children who spend long periods in hospital has led to some developments in acute paediatric care at home . |
| 18 | Britain has been concerned at Libyan attempts to put pressure on foreign governments by refusing exit visas . |
| 19 | Britain has been governed by south-east England for the past 13 years , and it has become possible for London and the Home Counties to ignore some aspects of reality . |
| 20 | THE Commander of a US Air Force base in Britain has been reprimanded by the Ministry of Defence for failing to hand over a rape suspect to British police , trying him instead at a court martial . |
| 21 | As has been seen above ( Chapter 1 ) , the same measure will call for controls to prevent eutrophication in coastal water and Britain has been fighting the battle-of-the-maps at the Paris Commission . |
| 22 | Since the turn of the century there have been brief periods when Britain has been more or less self-sufficient in cereals , meat , and dairy produce — during the two World Wars , and today , under the extraordinary economics of the European Community . |
| 23 | Whilst other nations wrestle with the complex problems of a modern democracy , the questions of press ownership , the funding of political parties , wire-tapping , privacy , freedom of information , the control of the security services , and so on , Britain has been content either to stand aside altogether or to legislate for continuing trust and deference . |
| 24 | This structural contradiction may explain , though it does not excuse , why Britain has been brought to book so frequently by the European judges . |
| 25 | The wettest town in Britain has been a major centre of the Welsh slate industry since the eighteenth century , and the hills all round it are scarred by quarries and deformed by spoil heaps . |
| 26 | In a journey back through the history of crime and delinquency , Pearson shows that for generations Britain has been plagued by the same problems and fears as today . |
| 27 | G. Britain has been occupied by people for a long , long time . |
| 28 | Britain has been an accomplice in this . |
| 29 | On the other hand , Malcolm Juleff , the managing director of a small firm in Derbyshire called Micro Image Technology , says Britain has been ‘ pathetic ’ in making chips . |
| 30 | As in other aspects of economic policy , Mrs Thatcher 's government in Britain has been eager to follow the American example . |