Example sentences of "britain have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In eight years Britain has moved from a current account surplus of 2.5 per cent of GDP to a deficit of 4 per cent of GDP . |
| 2 | Under the Conservatives , Britain has moved from manufacturing trade surplus to manufacturing trade deficit . |
| 3 | Over the past few years , part of the Left in Britain has moved into a more considered view as to the limits of elements of the British constitution , at the same time as it has become increasingly alive to the merits of elements of that same constitution — especially in so far as they bear on the issues of democracy , the sovereignty of Parliament and the people , and civil liberties . |
| 4 | ANOTHER of the grand golf developments which have been planned for Britain has run into financial difficulties , the receivers being called in at Quietwaters , a £20 million complex being built between Colchester and Maldon in Essex . |
| 5 | But Britain has decided on its policy before reading their report . |
| 6 | ‘ Instead of leading the way in the Community , Britain has trailed along behind whilst others have taken the lead . ’ |
| 7 | Britain has ratified the Maastricht Treaty just hours after Lord Rees-Mogg withdrew his legal challenge in the light of the turmoil on the European money markets . |
| 8 | To claim that Britain has nurtured something in a matter ultimately pertaining to worship ( the choral singing of cathedral and chapel ) which is purified and controlled beyond anything possessed by Catholic Europe , which is purged of excessive artifice and rhetoric ( Continental reviewers consistently find English a cappella performances impassive ) and whose excellence gives Britain a mission these are among the ideas that have been the principal source of British national identity since the Act of Union in 1707 and were a foundation stone of English identity long before . |
| 9 | As Donald J. Olsen has written : ‘ With the possible exception of Canada , Britain has seen a closer relationship between railways and hotels than any other country . ’ |
| 10 | As Marcus Binney and David Pearce put it : ‘ since its establishment in 1947 British Rail has acquired for itself an all too deserved reputation as the biggest corporate vandal and iconoclast Britain has seen since the Tudor dissolution of the monasteries ’ . |
| 11 | Britain has seen three house-price booms in the past two decades . |
| 12 | Britain has seen barely a score , worth £2.1 billion ( $3.6 billion ) . |
| 13 | Those principles reflect our conviction that Britain has done best when the people of Britain have been given the personal incentive to succeed . |
| 14 | There are good grounds for suggesting that general practice in Britain has done more than merely survive . |
| 15 | Let's face it , that is exactly what Britain has done to us . |
| 16 | Whether this flows from a suspicion of private undertakings which lurks in every large bureaucracy , or whether it is out of a deeper political distaste for what Britain has done , or from a misguided belief that state-owned organisations are cleaner and safer than private ones , is unclear . |
| 17 | Britain has reneged on a 1989 agreement to use Flue Gas Desulphurisation ( FGD ) equipment on at least 12,000 MW of power stations . |
| 18 | I believe that the Community has gained also from our membership because Britain has determined its direction in so many ways — on budget reform , on reform of the common agricultural policy , on the single market , on free competition within Europe and on free trade with the rest of the world . |
| 19 | THE average net disposable income in Britain has fallen 40 per cent since the 80s boom , says a Lloyds bank survey . |
| 20 | In effect , the purchasing power of members in Britain has fallen dramatically in the past number of years . |
| 21 | UNEMPLOYMENT in Britain has fallen for the first time in almost three years . |
| 22 | The aesthetic of the post-war Modern Movement in Britain has placed an ideal of family life as a whole , with the elevation of cooking and cleaning as work processes , over the Victorian hierarchy of space . |
| 23 | Search in Britain has achieved maturity during the turnaround in economic conditions of the 1980s — as discussed in the following chapter — but it began in entirely different circumstances . |
| 24 | The Medical Research Council will no doubt consider particular claims on scientific merits to counter the fact that Britain has achieved great success in science because of the increasing sums that the Government have made available for that purpose . |
| 25 | As bad luck would have it , the only industries in which Britain has clung to a world-lead — defence and aerospace — have both been affected by politics as well as economics . |
| 26 | Following the American lead , Britain has created a stockpile of strategic materials to safeguard industry if supplies run short . |
| 27 | The continuing spell of dry weather in much of eastern Britain has caused recharge to groundwater in the winter of 1990/91 to be much less than normal , and groundwater levels are greatly depressed in consequence , particularly in the Chalk of East Anglia . |
| 28 | Britain has reacted angrily when it felt other European governments were not co-operating in these efforts . |
| 29 | AMNESTY in Britain has grown tremendously over the last four or five years , but what has this meant for our effectiveness as a campaigning organisation ? |
| 30 | Sustained growth sounds unconvincing in the mouth of the Government because , in the past few years , Britain has grown at a rate well below trend growth and below the OECD average , managing a paltry 0.75 per cent . |