Example sentences of "with the british [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They plan a tour of Britain to familiarise themselves with the British style and the first place they wish to stop is Dundee for the game with United . |
| 2 | Armed with the British style magazines , the Continental fashion set have now created a new order : ‘ anti-chic ’ . |
| 3 | The press in Zambia had broken its links with the South only to forge new ones with the British press and its allied agencies . |
| 4 | At the same time he was pursuing his preference for bilateral meetings : these culminated during the first two months of 1961 with his meeting first with the British premier , Harold Macmillan , and then with Konrad Adenauer . |
| 5 | The testimony also coincided with the British release of Commander Bond 's latest venture , The Living Daylights ; in one of the nicest reversals of reality , some reviewers compared Bond to North , rather than vice-versa . |
| 6 | All the officers , except Dias himself and two others , sought asylum either with the British Consul ( and went on board the London ) or in the neutral zone in the hotels . |
| 7 | I lodged a formal complaint with Archie Hamilton — Minister for the Armed Forces , who is visiting Britain 's Gurkha soldiers in Nepal — and with the British Consul , Andrew Hall . |
| 8 | She had been in the winning Nations Cup team in Drammen , Norway , where she also scored her first grand prix success , and , as a result of her achievements , was chosen to go with the British squad on the autumn circuit of North American shows , in Washington , New York and Toronto . |
| 9 | Richardson is currently training with the British squad at Crystal Palace and is due to fly to Canada next month as part of the team 's build-up . |
| 10 | Mansfield reader FRED GREEN has checked with the British Cichlid Association and appears to be the first person to have spawned Green Chromides in the UK . |
| 11 | Indeed , the West Indians originally thought that they had much in common with British people and expected to be able to identify with the British way of life ( PEP 1976 ) . |
| 12 | The chief buyer was North , together with the British inspector-general of nitrate to Peru , Robert Harvey , and John Dawson , agent of the Chilean Bank of Valparaiso in Iquique . |
| 13 | In this sense sovereignty still rests with the British Parliament . |
| 14 | In 1935 the League was genuinely popular with the British public because it allowed them to believe , not for the first time , that there was no limit to Britain 's power to do good in the world . |
| 15 | Almost a year after his ‘ There 's Nothing Like This ’ hit single and reactivated album put him on first-name terms with the British public , Omar Lye-Kook is still based in north London , operating out of his father 's tiny Kongo Dance offices and recording down the road in Willesden . |
| 16 | The Prime Minister believes that her words strike a chord with the British public . |
| 17 | Having lost out to the Treasury on training , lost face with the British public by failing to recreate a climate of industrial expansion and lost out politically to his colleagues in Cabinet , he is in need of a political success . |
| 18 | There 's no doubt that the Bill is very unpopular with the British public . |
| 19 | On this day : Saladin entered Jerusalem , 1187 ; the Duke of York captured Alkmaar in the Netherlands , 1799 ; Rome became the capital city of Italy , 1870 ; Brigham Young , Mormon leader , was arrested for bigamy , 1871 ; the first Royal Naval submarine was launched at Barrow , 1901 ; the first rugby football match was played at Twickenham , 1909 ; Italy invaded Ethiopia , 1935 ; the liner Empress of Britain , bound for Canada with refugees , was sunk , 1940 ; the British Council received a Royal Charter , 1940 ; 338 people died when the Queen Mary liner collided with the British cruiser Curacao , which sank off the coast of Donegal , 1942 ; a new island , with a volcano at the centre , appeared off Fayal Island , Azores 1957 ; Guinea became an independent republic , 1958 ; the first London performance of the musical show Promises , Promises was presented , 1968 . |
| 20 | He had helped in the defence of Crete , and fought with the British Army in Italy and Austria . |
| 21 | Powered by a 550bhp Perkins engine and fitted with an advanced suspension system , Warrior can move cross-country faster than any other armoured vehicle currently in service with the British Army . |
| 22 | The campaign also involved the sending of intimidatory postcards to the Flannery family , as well as an ill-judged but unsuccessful attempt to de in the DUC with the British Army . |
| 23 | Oracle UK Ltd has won a 16-year contract with the British Army valued at £4m which will standardise all of the Army 's IT projects around the Oracle database . |
| 24 | Churchill , backed by the military leaders , persuaded the President that it was too soon for a direct assault on Europe , and that in its place there should be an Anglo-American invasion of North Africa ( Operation Torch ) to link up with the British Army already fighting the Germans and Italians in the Western Desert . |
| 25 | The reappearance , first and most immediately , of Eanfrith and subsequently of Oswald in Bernician territory at so crucial a moment in the history of the northern Angles could imply military assistance for them from the Picts or the Scots or both and even perhaps a certain ability to act in concert with the British king , Cadwallon . |
| 26 | In particular that fireworks comply with the British Standard that people register that they are keeping fireworks retailers and wholesalers so that we can go and inspect the storage conditions er and that people obey the law by not selling fireworks to people under the age of sixteen . |
| 27 | But in Britain , with its strong governmental impulse as created in the Victorian period in the aftermath of the 1855 Northcote-Trevelyan report , with the British faith in the educated , patrician ‘ expert ’ which kindled the support of American progressives and ‘ genteel reformers ’ in the previous century , the decline of planning and the loss of confidence in the effectiveness of social engineering had a deep cultural impact . |
| 28 | At this time Hyderabad was governed by a Nizam who , through a special relationship with the British crown , operated a feudal system of patronage , granting land to political allies . |
| 29 | Following an announcement by the Prime Minister , Sir Aneerood Jugnauth , on Oct. 22 that Mauritius would break ties with the British crown [ see p. 38520 ] , the Legislative Assembly on Dec. 10 passed the Constitutional Amendment Bill , under which Mauritius , a constitutional monarchy since its independence in 1968 , would become a republic within the Commonwealth on March 12 , 1992 . |
| 30 | Mauritius formally dropped ties with the British crown on March 12 to become a republic within the Commonwealth . |