Example sentences of "british [noun sg] has [verb] the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | But now British Rail has turned the clock back — temporarily offering steam rides from Henley-on-Thames . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | BRITISH RAIL has modified the bolts on the axles of its much-troubled advanced passenger train ( APT ) . |
| 6 | The Confederation of British Industry has put the cost of congestion on Britain 's roads at an annual figure of £15 billion . |
| 7 | A British judge has nailed the spectre in unequivocal terms . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For centuries the British physician has told the patient not to bother about his health . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | British Gas has admitted the meter reading mix up … blaming it on a clerical error . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The British government has ignored the advice of its own experts on the disposal of radioactive waste generated by hospitals and research institutes . |
| 14 | Since William Pitt 's day , in the late eighteenth century , the British government has recognised the absurdity of keeping multiple accounts — the crown 's revenue is the same whatever the source . |
| 15 | One problem relates to the grammatical word " have " when it is used to express past tense ( the " perfect " use of " have " ) : Women have been particularly targeted in magazines , especially during the Second World War , when the British government has realised the importance of women 's magazines as a channel of communication . |
| 16 | The British government has rejected the terms of a new European-wide agreement sponsored by the United Nations [ see ED 71 ] which would require cuts of sulphur-dioxide emissions by 80 per cent from 1980 levels . |
| 17 | This deplorable situation has come about because no British government has given the people of the Highlands and Islands the economic support that is given , for example , to Norwegians who live in difficult , out-of-the-way places . |
| 18 | IN ITS dying days , the British government has given the go-ahead for a controversial plan to build another oil refinery on Canvey Island in the Thames estuary . |
| 19 | British Coal has reserved the right to take out what machinery it wants elsewhere . |
| 20 | The truth is that the new chairman of British Coal has told the Secretary of State that he can not privatise the coal industry in its present state and that the Rothschild report may understate what is really in store for the coal industry . |