Example sentences of "britain had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Thatcher government gradually recovered from a shaky and difficult start to retain power by a hugely increased majority in 1983 , followed by another overwhelming electoral triumph ( in seats if not in votes ) in 1987 and as the spectacle was observed in 1989 of a Prime Minister remaining in unchallenged power for over a decade , comparable to Lord Liverpool if not yet Robert Walpole in the past , the belief took hold that the values and style of modern Britain had been transformed . |
| 2 | There had been several local , peripheral wars in which Britain had been engaged , notably that in Korea in 1950–3 , and a long series of conflicts to resolve colonial problems — Malaya in the late 1940s , Kenya and Cyprus in the 1950s , Suez ( most traumatically ) in 1956 , Aden and Southern Arabia in the sixties . |
| 3 | There might have been considerable constitutional difficulties if it had turned out that , for the last 10 years , Britain had been ruled by a Martian , or a robot , or a vampire . |
| 4 | In the Far East , where Britain had been so successful in defeating Communist terrorism , there was also growing instability . |
| 5 | Britain had been unable to protect Czechoslovakia or Poland in 1938–39 , and every month before a possible invasion meant more aircraft , guns and ships . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Having dismissed the basis of the EC Directive , the article now went on , as the government itself would like to imply , that , while others had muddled about wrongly trying to control nitrates , Britain had been engaged on work of an altogether higher order , ‘ in the interests of good water ’ . |
| 8 | Because Britain had been producing nuclear power longer than most other countries , this was a particularly acute problem . |
| 9 | Britain had been content with the intergovernmental structure of OEEC . |
| 10 | Several states might have been willing to follow the Six in their ventures if Britain had been willing to join . |
| 11 | Britain had been equally emphatic about the EDC , believing that there were simpler ways of achieving West German rearmament . |
| 12 | Great Britain had been associated with the stabilizing system by a skilful use of her Mediterranean fears , although Bismarck failed to turn association into alliance in 1889 . |
| 13 | Hitherto , marriage in Britain had been late ( average age at first marriage about 25 for women , 28 for men ) . |
| 14 | Tacitus lamented that Britain had been ‘ completely conquered and immediately thrown away ’ . |
| 15 | Some of the very earliest composing machines in Britain had been in use in Edinburgh in the 1860s . |
| 16 | Liberals saw this as evidence that the dominions were more interested in going their own way , but Unionists retorted that Canada like Britain had been led astray by a radical government and that Canada 's decision was the result of Britain 's failure to offer preference . |
| 17 | Jill Neville was , and is , a novelist , whose arrival in Britain had been part of an earlier 1960s Australian wave , more tied to bohemianism than to the music and the scene that sucked in Australians in the mid 1960s . |
| 18 | During his visit to London , President Yeltsin noted that Britain had been the first country to denounce the August coup , and the first to recognise Russia ; the first to propose Russian membership of the International Monetary Fund ; the first to propose an April deadline for that membership ; and the first to support a stabilisation fund for the rouble . |
| 19 | The only systematic disentanglement from corporatist theorizing and policy analysis of the administrative component was by R. E. Pahl and J. T. Winkler , writing at a time when it seemed that Britain had been developing in the direction of corporatism for the previous fifteen years and was experiencing sectoral planning , planning agreements and statutory or voluntary controls over prices , profit margins , dividends , wages , rents and the movement of capital . |
| 20 | He promised the Turks assistance not because he wished to establish a protectorate over them , but because he wanted their regime to survive and Britain had been unable to assist them . |
| 21 | The recent ancestors of those who ruled Britain had been innovative , adventurous , intelligent , sometimes radical , always thrusting . |
| 22 | Until today 's new proposals Britain had been cautioning against such an operation because of the dangers to aircrew and the risk of killing or injuring people on the ground . |