Example sentences of "[prep] british " in BNC.
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| 1 | A HIGH-POWERED group of finance directors has urged the Government to consider giving greater commercial freedom to nationalised industries such as British Rail and the Post Office rather than privatising them outright . |
| 2 | The few French privatisations that occurred before the current Socialist government came in — Compagnie Financiere de Suez being a good example - excited heavy demand from French retail investors , rather as British Gas and British Telecom did in the UK . |
| 3 | There were , indeed , large subsidies still being paid to state-owned industries such as British Leyland , Rolls Royce , and the coal and steel industries , even by that apparently doctrinaire minister of Trade and Industry , Sir Keith Joseph . |
| 4 | The Labour Party , under a youthful new leader , Neil Kinnock , elected in October 1983 , was significantly hesitant in proclaiming its zeal to renationalize , even in cases such as British Gas where state-run industries had been clearly successful . |
| 5 | In some key sales , such as British Gas and British Telecom , the government retained a share of the equity to protect the national interest . |
| 6 | The purpose of this Act was to deny them their right , as British citizens , to enter Britain . |
| 7 | In either case , the problem with British movies is seen as British inhibition . |
| 8 | That is dramatically cheaper than earlier flotations such as British Telecom , which paid commission rates at 0.375 per cent . |
| 9 | UNTIL 1948 Hong Kong people were regarded as British citizens with the same right of abode in the United Kingdom as anyone born in Britain . |
| 10 | Children born in the United Kingdom to students , visitors or illegal immigrants no longer automatically acquire British citizenship at birth , but they will still be able to register as British citizens if either parent later becomes a citizen or settles in the United Kingdom , or if the child has spent the first ten years of its life in the country . |
| 11 | Such conflict became increasingly likely after 1920 when unemployment rose as British trade failed to recover to its pre-war level . |
| 12 | The achievements are especially gratifying for a sector at first regarded as British Rail 's provincial Cinderella , obscure and ill-equipped . |
| 13 | Several of the major companies , such as British Land , Capital & Counties , MEPC and even Land Securities , were forced to sell some of their best properties to survive . |
| 14 | It acts as British agent for a large number of New Yorkers offering bed and breakfast in their own homes , and can also find apartments — from studios to three-bedroom flats — many privately owned . |
| 15 | Since the 1990 Budget , parents with a child in a workplace nursery do not pay tax on the value of the care , but women employed by companies that either ‘ buy ’ places at private nurseries or the 60 or so firms such as British Gas , National Power , Debenhams and BMW which issue childcare vouchers ( worth an average £27 a week ) must pay tax on what is treated as a perk . |
| 16 | Mr Major has also chosen a new adviser on foreign affairs , Sir Rodric Braithwaite , who is retiring as British ambassador to Moscow next month . |
| 17 | We will break up the monopoly providers of services such as British Telecom and British Gas . |
| 18 | The Act removed the right of people who had settled in the UK before 1973 to register as British citizens , and replaced this with the opportunity to naturalise as British at the discretion of the Secretary of State at the Home Office . |
| 19 | The pumping was said to be done by Germans , faultlessly disguised as British officers , or even , it had been whispered , by genuine British officers who had fallen for German propaganda . |
| 20 | In most cases , if the holder of shares wishes to recover the money balance surrendered to the issues of the claim such as British Petroleum then the shares must be sold in a secondary market , i.e. a stock exchange , to some other party . |
| 21 | The Forum has a Council of Management drawn from organisations with an interest in the nuclear industry , such as British Nuclear Fuels Ltd , UKAEA , Shell Nuclear , Whessoe Heavy Engineering , Fairey Engineering , GEC , Tube Investments , Vickers , Sir Robert McAlpine , the Central Electricity Generating Board , the South of Scotland Electricity Board , Kleinwort Benson and the British Insurance Committee . |
| 22 | The material which Ivanov accumulated and interpreted came not from closeted sources but from publicly available journals , technical newspapers and magazines , and house publications such as British Aerospace News . |
| 23 | There was concern that ships from other countries , especially Spain , were registering as British ships and so were included in the UK fishing quota . |
| 24 | But in his innocence — and Murrells was , administratively speaking , an innocent — he had forgotten that the first prerequisite of British control was to identify the men who would function as British agents , so that they could , in the event of unsatisfactory performance , be replaced . |
| 25 | Indeed , the belief has now passed into the folklore that it was Gandhi 's success in appealing to the British conscience , also known as British decency , that led to India 's achievement of independence in 1947 . |
| 26 | The abolition of the Slave Trade by Britain in 1807 created shortages of manual labourers in the plantations of colonies such as British Guiana . |
| 27 | Apart from finding time to fulfil his role as British director of the International Theatre Institute ( a UNESCO research and information organisation ) , write two novels and run the Land and City Families Trust , he is also vice-president of the National Children 's Home and chairman of its George Thomas Society , which specialises in caring for abused children . |
| 28 | If you 're not sure about them , you 'll be better off paying a bit more for the security of a larger firm such as British Telecom or the Electricity Board . |
| 29 | The £13 billion bid for BAT ( formerly known as British American Tobacco ) in 1989 was the largest bid ever involving a British company . |
| 30 | Whether a government , even as market-orientated as Mrs Thatcher 's Conservative government , would allow an important firm , such as British Gas , to collapse is debatable ; |