Example sentences of "[noun sg] british " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present British single mothers can not pass on their citizenship to children born abroad , nor can married women pass on their citizenship to children from abroad with non-UK fathers . |
| 2 | Yet , this may well be the most efficient method of obtaining and channeling the Government and municipal support British sport badly needs . |
| 3 | Whereas ‘ Support British Industry ’ might be a slogan to rouse the YCs , ‘ Support the World Bank ’ would lack immediacy . |
| 4 | And he concludes , ‘ of all the warnings that the inner city has to offer for the direction British society is taking , this is perhaps the most sinister ’ . |
| 5 | They gave even better against the paramilitary organisations and political groupings of the majority British population which is as instinctively law-abiding as that of any other part of the United Kingdom and probably even quicker to disassociate itself from senseless or politically motivated violence . |
| 6 | Nonetheless the majority British culture does contrast with many others in the relative unimportance of wider kin ties , including arrangements found traditionally elsewhere in Europe . |
| 7 | H. B. Gibson Chairman British Society of Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis |
| 8 | Already television consultants , Judge Marketing have arranged for a special camera to be set up on board British Steel Challenge . |
| 9 | Erm i in addition British Goa Coal have plans to undermine much of this area up to and beyond two thousand and six . |
| 10 | Yet still it appears impossible to discover the ownership of shares held through a minor Swiss bank which were used to help a second division British company build up stakes in several third division British companies . |
| 11 | Yet still it appears impossible to discover the ownership of shares held through a minor Swiss bank which were used to help a second division British company build up stakes in several third division British companies . |
| 12 | Their successors will be in action at Desertmartin on Friday and Saturday in the first youth Division British Championship event to be held here . |
| 13 | Their own transport and they do , do run coaches and er there are rail British Rail run the service as well as a rule . |
| 14 | With only one tenth of her debut British tour safely negotiated , however , Waterman was already envisaging more — and bigger — tours for Kylie . |
| 15 | Playing their debut British gig last month supporting Throwing Muses at London 's Clapham Grand , they looked nervous , but enchanting : occasionally coy , but powerful with it . |
| 16 | Their debut British television performance recorded late last year in their home town of Seattle for The Word scored 400 complaining calls . |
| 17 | Lascars were in any case British subjects , and ought , Wilson contended , to enjoy conditions in common with British seamen generally except in the tropics . |
| 18 | Legal experts have noted , in this context , that because of a loophole in the law an owner ( in this case British Coal ) is not responsible for the pollution caused by the abandonment of a mine . |
| 19 | And of course British capitalism was by this stage a very different capitalism from that of the inter-war years : a social formation in which the organised working class , as organised in the trade unions , was at least consulted and listened to by governments as a matter of course , and in which the major political forces took for granted the obligation to minimise unemployment and to preserve and expand the welfare state . |
| 20 | Does my hon. Friend agree that , now that the Conservative party is formally represented in Northern Ireland and will have candidates in the next general election there , we should remove the anomaly whereby Northern Ireland citizens — who are of course British subjects — have to follow the rest of the United Kingdom ? |
| 21 | But what their reaction shows is just how little awareness there was among Britain 's film executives of cinema 's artistic potential , and how little discussion had gone on about what sort of cinema British producers should develop . |
| 22 | DANNY MEDDINGS continued his run of form with a surprisingly easy victory over Welsh No 1 , Adrian Davies , in last night 's opening round of the Daily Express British Players ' Championship at Cheshunt , Hertfordshire , writes Elspeth Burnside . |
| 23 | After the auction Joint Services Public Relations , HQ British Forces Cyprus have thoughtfully sent us information about those recently retired Shakletons . |
| 24 | Its responsibilities East of Suez would be taken over by a new tri-Service headquarters established at Aden under an air vice-marshal with the title of HQ British Forces , Middle East . |
| 25 | And the naval objections to the establishment of a unified command in the Far East were overcome by the clear example of the success of HQ British Forces , Middle East , during the Kuwait operation . |
| 26 | Lt-Gen Sir Jeremy Mackenzie , 51 , commander of 1st British Corps in Germany , will assemble an international military staff at corps headquarters in Bielefeld and prepare to move in October to the Corps headquarters at Rheindhalen , formerly HQ British Army of the Rhine . |
| 27 | The two British fighters have been tipped for a multi-million pound British showdown since Bruno 's boxing licence was renewed 14 months ago , and the prospect gathered pace last week when Lewis was crowned WBC champion . |
| 28 | As for the less active travellers , their steps were now guided by Thomas Cook and the solid guide-books of the period , the pioneer British Murray 's Guides being increasingly overshadowed by those bibles of the tourist , the German Baedekers , now published in several languages . |
| 29 | As Dr O'Brien has recently pointed out , in effect British governments between 1714 and 1815 constructed a revenue system from component parts which enabled them to increase tax revenues per head from Europe 's most rapidly growing population much more successfully than the French from the end of the eighteenth century , despite having been less heavily taxed up to then . |
| 30 | Right so is there anything unfair in your view about the kind of deal British Airways is offering ? |