Example sentences of "british [noun sg] has [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past 15 years , Social Trends reports , British Rail has cut the number of its carriages by a quarter . |
| 2 | British Rail has given a figure of £1.4 billion for the construction of the station complex . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But now British Rail has turned the clock back — temporarily offering steam rides from Henley-on-Thames . |
| 5 | BRITISH Rail has introduced a £20m package of improvements to North-East services aimed at attracting more travellers on to local trains . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | BRITISH RAIL has modified the bolts on the axles of its much-troubled advanced passenger train ( APT ) . |
| 9 | BRITISH Rail has launched a winter sale , with cut-price deals on long-distance Saver tickets . |
| 10 | British Rail has launched an inquiry , but a spokesman said the alarm bells and gates appeared to be working properly . |
| 11 | BRITISH Rail has launched an investigation to discover how a herd of cows came to be wandering down the Saltburn-Darlington line last week . |
| 12 | BRITISH Aerospace has won a £300 million contract to build 13 RAF Harriers , it was announced yesterday . |
| 13 | The Confederation of British Industry has put the cost of congestion on Britain 's roads at an annual figure of £15 billion . |
| 14 | A British judge has nailed the spectre in unequivocal terms . |
| 15 | The British banger has taken a bit of a grilling today . |
| 16 | One could argue that British inhibition has played a part in the poverty of British scripts . |
| 17 | British Steel has launched an inquiry after a spillage of molten steel at the Lackenby plant on Teesside late on Monday night . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | For centuries the British physician has told the patient not to bother about his health . |
| 20 | Luis Vargas , an Archuar Indian , said that Indians no longer wanted British Gas on their land and were no longer prepared to negotiate with the company , " British Gas has done a lot of damage in our forest " he said . |
| 21 | British Gas has announced a price freeze from April the First . |
| 22 | By law a company like British Gas has to hold a meeting of its shareholders once a year . |
| 23 | British Gas has dubbed the project Armada but one group of partners has named their discoveries after Elizabethan heroes Drake , Hawkins and Howard — hardly the favourites of the original invasion fleet . |
| 24 | Conference , I was pleased to read that British Gas has implemented an employee harassment policy and procedure scheme , to help employers deal with this issue . |
| 25 | British Gas has admitted the meter reading mix up … blaming it on a clerical error . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , following a protest by villagers , British Gas has rerouted a £2.7 million gas main to avoid disturbing a colony of rare glow worms near Barrowden , Leicestershire . |
| 27 | Much of this work will be discussed in Chapter 8 when we will be dealing with the way in which the British state has handled the economy . |
| 28 | In the last 21 years the British state has developed a range of counter-insurgency techniques which have been exported all over the world : ‘ special units ’ such as the SAS , sectarian shoot-to-kill squads , political laws , special courts , media censorship and new styles of torture which leave no mark . |
| 29 | Get the bomb squad out any way , but erm , the British army has got a lot of important that 's they way we would fight the Russians , take over a small hamlet , mortify it and that 's how the only way we would ever up the Russian 's grass nest , they take it very seriously , so what they did if they tell us how to do it , walks us through , show us what to do , let us do it and then they 'd make us do it again , but without any mistakes and that , it was really good and they showed us how to er mortify up a house , go , going through all the sewers and stuff is quite fun |
| 30 | THE BRITISH government has extracted a price for generosity in providing funds for the British Antarctic Survey ( BAS ) . |