Example sentences of "[adv] for british " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour leader in the Lords , Lord Cledwyn , asked : If Vietnam 's human rights record was bad enough for British aid to be cut off in 1979 , why was it now good enough to merit forced repatriation ? |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not wobbly enough for British tastes , ’ said one . |
| 3 | It 's not enough for British products to be good value in terms of price — they must also match the standards of products from other countries in both performance and reliability . |
| 4 | The day had begun gloomily for British hopes , however , when Malcolm Wilson , fifth overnight in his Ford Sierra Cosworth , suffered the double blow of a broken prop shaft and turbo . |
| 5 | He was dignified , he was knowledgeable , and he obviously had great feeling not only for British art but all kinds of art . |
| 6 | From these observations the task before the court on this appeal can be distilled in this form : the court is concerned to inquire as to the persons with respect to whom Parliament is presumed to have been legislating when using the expression , ‘ any person , ’ and in making that inquiry Parliament is to be taken to have been legislating only for British subjects or foreigners coming to the United Kingdom , unless the contrary is expressed ( which it is not here ) or is plainly implicit . |
| 7 | They want the Government to be in the heart of Europe , negotiating positively and effectively not only for British interests but for a better Europe . |
| 8 | We are providing a great deal of advice and training for officials of different carriers — and not merely for British Airways , because we do not expect airline officials to be immigration officers ; that is not their function . |
| 9 | Tributes have continued to pour in for British Team Manager Les Jones , who died after the European Indoor Championships in Genoa . |
| 10 | Not for British architects the spoiled role of their Finnish counterparts who command the same prestige in society as pop stars do in Western society . |
| 11 | The most popular British cult object , however , has no wheels and would not have moved at all if it was not for British Telecom . |
| 12 | Nesta Webster , however , who was a member of the grand council for three months in 1926 and 1927 , thought that the BF had done more for British patriotism than all the other middle-class organizations put together , and soon after leaving established a Patriots Enquiry Centre , a kind of Die-hard library where the ultra-right could study the socialist menace . |
| 13 | Although it had been a rest home for British Telecom , alterations were necessary to provide the ten individual bed sitting rooms and the Housekeepers flat , whilst at the same time some safety improvements were needed to meet the Fire Officer 's regulations . |
| 14 | There is a personal concern in all this for me , I ai n't a miner , but I do work and represent G M B and Apex members working directly for British Coal . |
| 15 | The ‘ nationality ’ factor in early Elvis signified rather differently for British adolescents in the mid-1950s ; it was mediated through the image presented by the ‘ American South ’ within their national tradition , and , more widely , through the rather different gender , generational and class structures obtaining in Britain . |
| 16 | Their high degree of competitiveness is a lesson both for British companies that compete with them and for all those who are looking for ways to sharpen their competitive edge . |
| 17 | British Gas South Western 's Control Centre is the heart of all gas operations in the South West , both for British Gas and other gas suppliers . |
| 18 | Reading right-wing papers also made people more inclined to believe the Conservative Party had convincing policies and was likely to keep its promises , that Kinnock was neither decisive , nor trustworthy , nor a good leader of a team , and especially that he could not be relied upon to stand up for British interests against the USSR . |
| 19 | When the company was trying to stimulate confidence amongst its backers , Nimslo proudly claimed that it had ‘ received ’ nearly £3 million in government grants to tool up for British production at the Timex factory in Dundee . |
| 20 | ‘ But transfer fees are so blown up for British players that managers are now forced to look abroad . |
| 21 | Is it not time the hon. Gentleman did the job he is paid for and stood up for British sport ? |
| 22 | For that very reason , the Government are standing up for British businesses and British services in Brussels as we want more jobs , not fewer . |
| 23 | The refugees have spent six days on the Austrian border holding out for British permits . |
| 24 | And those are what we 've thought out for British Rail . |
| 25 | Having been employed now for British Gas for the last twenty five years er , I 've got seventeen years of pensionable service , which has only just been negotiated through the G M B since nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety three and now it is probably one of the better pensions , company pension schemes , in the country . |
| 26 | If it was possible to do that in the past , it should be possible now for British Rail to design relatively cheap crossing facilities . |
| 27 | Some stop-gap funding was provided immediately for British Lion and this was followed , in April 1949 , by the setting up of the National Film Finance Corporation which the Board of Trade provided with a revolving fund of £5 million ( expanded to £6 million in 1950 ) . |
| 28 | Has my right hon. Friend had time to notice this week substantial orders from abroad for British Aerospace , Rolls-Royce and Govan Shipbuilders ? |
| 29 | ‘ The only way forward for British rugby is to play that standard of game every week , ’ he added . |
| 30 | The Lodger represented a substantial step forward for British filmmaking . |