Example sentences of "british [noun sg] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We-e-e-ll — ’ The fatal pause , and my fate was sealed and British Rail had lost a customer . |
| 2 | If British Rail wants to withdraw a service if must make an application to do so , which is considered , and the same thing applies to ferry services . |
| 3 | The 68,000-member Rail , Maritime and Transport Union called the strike after British Rail refused to give a pledge that there will be no compulsory redundancies . |
| 4 | To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he next plans to meet the chairman of British Rail to discuss improving the rail links between the channel tunnel and north-west England . |
| 5 | Over the past 15 years , Social Trends reports , British Rail has cut the number of its carriages by a quarter . |
| 6 | British Rail has given a figure of £1.4 billion for the construction of the station complex . |
| 7 | The company is no longer going to run freight trains in Western Scotland because British Rail has increased the transport rates by 50 to 80 per cent to cover fixed costs from an ever decreasing user base . |
| 8 | But now British Rail has turned the clock back — temporarily offering steam rides from Henley-on-Thames . |
| 9 | BRITISH Rail has introduced a £20m package of improvements to North-East services aimed at attracting more travellers on to local trains . |
| 10 | ‘ Let's pretend our train has got 25 loads on it , let's pretend British Rail has got a locomotive which can actually pull 25 loads over Shap Fell and let's assume it is 100 per cent full , ’ he continued . |
| 11 | I do not want to delay progress , but someone must say that he is not entirely happy about the way in which British Rail has promoted the Bill and about the contents of some of the clauses . |
| 12 | BRITISH RAIL has modified the bolts on the axles of its much-troubled advanced passenger train ( APT ) . |
| 13 | BRITISH Rail has launched a winter sale , with cut-price deals on long-distance Saver tickets . |
| 14 | British Rail has launched an inquiry , but a spokesman said the alarm bells and gates appeared to be working properly . |
| 15 | BRITISH Rail has launched an investigation to discover how a herd of cows came to be wandering down the Saltburn-Darlington line last week . |
| 16 | BRITISH Aerospace has won a £300 million contract to build 13 RAF Harriers , it was announced yesterday . |
| 17 | The Confederation of British Industry has put the cost of congestion on Britain 's roads at an annual figure of £15 billion . |
| 18 | All uitlanders , or non-citizens , of British stock had to leave the Transvaal Republic , and in spite of their Dutch antecedents the Crankos had by then become fully anglicized . |
| 19 | A British judge has nailed the spectre in unequivocal terms . |
| 20 | The British team aims to develop the world 's first tidal current turbine , similar in principle to a windmill . |
| 21 | The British banger has taken a bit of a grilling today . |
| 22 | One could argue that British inhibition has played a part in the poverty of British scripts . |
| 23 | Among the hardest hit industries were motors , where Ford and Vauxhall on Feb. 7 announced cuts of over 2,000 jobs and around 300 respectively to take effect mostly from late 1992 ; aerospace , with BAe announcing on Feb. 12 some 2,350 job losses in its military and regional divisions ; coal , with several pit closures or staff reductions having been announced in January , and with a prediction by Malcolm Edwards , then British Coal 's commercial director , on Feb. 19 that the corporation could be slimmed down to possibly as few as 12 pits in the next two years ; and steel , where on Jan. 8 British Steel had confirmed the closure by September of the remaining part of its huge Ravenscraig plant in Scotland , with around 1,200 job losses . |
| 24 | Will he use this opportunity to ask British Steel to consider modernising the Dalzell plate mill in Motherwell rather than building an expensive new plate mill , which would be less profitable for British Steel ? |
| 25 | Middlesbrough Council has joined the growing campaign to urge British Steel to keep using the Redmire to Redcar freight rail link in order to prevent thousands more lorry journeys through Teesside . |
| 26 | British Steel has launched an inquiry after a spillage of molten steel at the Lackenby plant on Teesside late on Monday night . |
| 27 | And the 38-year-old Avon rider could also pick up a fourth team medal , with the British quartet poised to win the title for the fifth time on the trot . |
| 28 | In 1989 , a third of the British workforce have had no training whatsoever at any stage of their working lives . |
| 29 | Not for the first time , the British voter has confounded the pundits and returned a shrewd , sensible verdict which should renew our respect for his discernment . |
| 30 | For centuries the British physician has told the patient not to bother about his health . |