Example sentences of "britain that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or that Belgium is the only country apart from Britain that uses Bronco ( medicated ) hard toilet tissue ? |
| 2 | In the USA the not-for-profit sectors dealing with heads of major museums , art galleries and universities are increasingly searched by headhunters and this may well be a sector in Britain that uses search in the future , particularly if more of those organisations continue to receive increased levels of funding from the corporate sector , as would seem to be the case . |
| 3 | It is the whole of official Britain that swings behind Labour . |
| 4 | It is this ‘ position ’ that homosexuals find themselves in modern Britain that requires further consideration . |
| 5 | In 1981 , six of the 280 LLMAs accounted for over half of the people in Britain that had been born in the New Commonwealth or Pakistan ( NCWP ) . |
| 6 | It was through their influence that Goodricke was appointed as minister-resident to Sweden in 1758 ; he had to wait in Copenhagen until 1764 before the Swedish government resumed diplomatic relations with Britain that had been severed at the outset of the Seven Years ' War . |
| 7 | ( Subscribers to the ‘ cock-up ’ theory of history will be interested to learn that the framers of the American constitution were much impressed by Montesquieu 's idea that it was the separation of powers in Britain that had enabled the British to maintain their freedom from tyranny . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ It is Britain that suffers when after losing their direction , nerve and now billions of our reserves , we have a Government with no policy , a Cabinet with no leader , a Chancellor with virtually no exchequer , and a Prime Minister with no ideas , no friends and soon no future . ’ |
| 9 | The first comprehensive study in Britain that looks specifically at Black women 's experience of domestic violence is currently nearing completion . |
| 10 | Something was happening in Britain that allowed the period to be plausibly described , both at the time and later , as permissive . |
| 11 | There were , none the less , one or two groups in post-war Britain that merit the name of coterie , if the word implies a repeated or regular gathering of like-minded writers in the same room . |
| 12 | It is a quite Caribbean Britain that has made her : a Britain at the end of the world which it used to rule . |
| 13 | The transformation of Britain that has taken place in the past 13 years is too readily taken for granted by some of those who have most richly reaped the rewards : the new home owners , the new share-holders , the employees freed from the shackles of militant trade unionism , the NHS patients who have felt the benefits of fund-holding GPs and self-administered hospitals , parents who have witnessed their children thrive in grant-maintained schools . |
| 14 | It is rather Britain that has chosen the Italian road and opted for a one-party state that may soon have more difficulty in government than it imagines . |
| 15 | My generation is the first in Britain that has spent its whole career in politics within the European Community . |
| 16 | A recent source of data about the ethnic minorities in Britain that has been extensively used in this chapter is Brown ( 1984 ) , which is based on a large-scale survey for the Policy Studies Institute . |
| 17 | To understand the UK economy and the restructuring of Britain that has been occurring we have to consider not only the response of British industry to changes in the world economy , but the character of those global changes themselves and the forces that have produced them . |
| 18 | At this stage , you know , we do n't have in our situation because we 're very poor any kind of gifts that can give a valid expression even as a token of the tremendous support you 've all given us over many many years and decades in Britain that has been a source of inspiration . |
| 19 | Both originated in a split in the nationalist movement of the early 1920s about the acceptability of the 1921 treaty with Britain that set up the Irish Free State . |
| 20 | Before going on to examine the Franco-German relationship and the German Question in the next chapter , however , it is worth asking what it is about Britain that makes it so sensitive over national sovereignty . |
| 21 | The reason , quite simply , is that architects find work where the market for their skill is most lucrative , and in Britain that tends to be on sites where intensive development has taken place for generations , particularly the commercial centres and inner suburbs of big cities . |