Example sentences of "britain [unc] [noun] [vb past] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Keith Joseph offers a flexi-time history according to which , in the same speech where he entertained the spectacular belief that Britain 's streets had been plunged into insecurity ‘ for the first time in a century and a half ’ , he also conjured with a more modest timescale whereby ‘ such words as good and evil , such stress on self-discipline and standards have been out of favour since the war ’ . |
| 2 | The era of class confrontation in Britain 's coalfields had been confined mainly to the short period 1910–26 . |
| 3 | At a time when nearly half of Britain 's destroyers had been put out of action , he arranged with Winston Churchill to provide 50 over-age US destroyers in return for the leases on eight British naval bases in the American hemisphere . |
| 4 | For several decades Britain 's policy had been splendid isolation , and that Europe 's most powerful nation should emerge from that isolation by concluding an alliance with Japan was seen in Japan as a triumph . |
| 5 | Walden talked about the way in which Britain 's role had been artificially inflated by the cold war : ‘ What could be better calculated to raise the national spirits than a government holding the flag high in the face of the evils of communism , the murderous follies of buffoonish Argentinian generals , and the intrigues of the perfidious French ? ’ |