Example sentences of "britain be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason why I have detained readers of New Scientist with such minutiae is that the ‘ Mink on Shetland ’ presents us with a case study of the way in which decisions affecting the wildlife of Britain are being left to the ephemeral whims of local personages . |
| 2 | The patterns of employment in Britain are being re-structured by employers seeking to maintain their market position during the current recession , and introduce new technology . |
| 3 | Ducks from Britain are being blamed for driving a species in Europe to the verge of extinction . |
| 4 | At present houses throughout Britain are being valued so they can be placed into one of eight value brackets . |
| 5 | Mr Oatley pointed out that because small producers were going out of business , up to 10 per cent of eggs consumed in Britain were being imported . |
| 6 | Out of these multiple fields of conflict the future of Asian women in Britain is being resolved . |
| 7 | It has been suggested that Britain is being ‘ flooded ’ with refugees . |
| 8 | Under the Conservatives , transport in Britain is being transformed . |
| 9 | A review of the significance of natural contamination to planning and development in Great Britain is being carried out for the DOE with the aim of outlining in broad terms the relevance of the physical and chemical restraints on planning and development imposed by natural contamination . |
| 10 | Because of political hostility trade union membership in Britain is being held at an artificially low level . |
| 11 | Some estimates suggest that up to 11 per cent of total gas supply in Britain is being lost . |
| 12 | The door is wide open for their exploitation , Britain is being hailed as the Taiwan or the sweatshop of Europe and the government are extolling the virtues of investment in Britain for its cheap labour costs , well , how much more then do the workers of Poland , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Rumania and rest need protection from the money-hungry , the power-crazy multi-nationals of the West ? |
| 13 | All LEAs and schools must lead pupils to understand what is involved in Britain 's being a multiracial and multicultural society ; this must permeate all the work of schools . |
| 14 | During the Abyssinian crisis the Socialist League ( the main left-wing grouping in the Labour party ) opposed the call for sanctions against Italy , fearing that Britain was being ‘ led under the banner of the League into another imperialist war . ’ |
| 15 | Leon Trotsky had said that a socialist revolution in Britain was being prevented by one thing alone — the habit of the leaders of the Labour Party and trade unions to compromise with the ruling class by becoming part of the system . |
| 16 | IN SEPTEMBER 1940 , the Battle of Britain was being fought over south east England by the pilots of Fighter Command , but at the same time the crews of Coastal and Bomber Commands were making heroic , but less well-known , attacks on the invasion barges and German naval forces assembled in the ports and harbours across the Channel . |
| 17 | By the middle 1960s the new urban map of Britain was being consolidated . |
| 18 | Nevertheless the British embassy did not believe that Britain was being written off as a " negligible " force , nor had the common Anglo-Saxon heritage been totally forgotten . |
| 19 | A couple of years ago , it seemed , Britain was being overrun by tourists . |