Example sentences of "[adv prt] to british " in BNC.
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1 | But I think we could of gone down to British Home Stores , but we both probably would have spent more , than , |
2 | But critics here want more safeguards built in to British courts , so that justice is done . |
3 | He 'd managed to persuade them to get a message through to British Intelligence : the words ‘ Prime Minister ’ and ‘ Cadogan Square ’ . |
4 | Yet somehow the message has still to get through to British Rail that the communication of travel information is no longer a luxury , to be fed in titbits to grateful passengers . |
5 | These informants were turned over to British intelligence in 1981 under an operation code-named Ward . |
6 | American political pressure on Churchill in London , and diplomatic help to Nasser in Cairo , resulted in the highly unsatisfactory Anglo-Egyptian Agreement of October 1954 , whereby the military base installations in the Canal Zone were to be handed over to British civilian contractors , and all uniformed personnel were to leave Egypt by the end of March 1956 . |
7 | It seems that the masterplan , compiled by former Tate curator Richard Francis , is recommending that the existing galleries be given over to British art , from the sixteenth century to the present day , while another building , either already in existence , or to be built , but in either case not far from Millbank , will become the gallery of modern art . |
8 | In a speech on Tehran radio on June 5 Hojatolislam Seyed Ali Khamenei , Iran 's spiritual leader , repeated the demand that the British novelist Salman Rushdie should be handed over to British Moslems " so that he can be killed for blasphemy against Islam " , as first decreed by fatwa issued in February 1989 by the late Ayatollah Khomeini after publication of Rushdie 's novel The Satanic Verses [ see pp. 36450-51 ] . |
9 | Michael Michael , to assist the panel , after we received 's paper on on on the erm coal workings in Selby we have act we faxed that over to British Coal for their comments . |
10 | Invest in a good deadlock ( up to British Standard — look for the Kitemark ! ) for your front door . |
11 | IT 'S great to see people standing up to British Telecom . |
12 | All foreign branches seem to have been closed for financial reasons in 1891–1892 , but Wilson , after the refloating of the union in 1894 , persisted in his international endeavours , establishing new branches in Hamburg , Rotterdam and Antwerp in the following year and an agency in New York , and accepting the logic of the shipowners ' often repeated argument that British claims to higher pay would be more convincing if foreign rates were brought up to British levels . |
13 | We do not yet know the precise figures required — that is up to British Coal . |
14 | The association has stated clearly that it is up to British Rail — and , perhaps , the Government — to take such dangers into account if they wish to increase railway speeds , as many of us would like , and to ensure that people can cross the line safely , even if that means the Government providing the money either for an underpass of for a bridge over the line . |
15 | I understand that Wyre Borough Council are standardising all the play equipment throughout the borough and bringing it up to British Standards safety requirements . |
16 | This quote appeared on envelopes sent out to British members as part of the India fundraising appeal . |
17 | M I five operates it in Northern Ireland and has got this whole series you may well have seen the television programme recently about these people who work undercover and who work for the intelligence and they they work themselves into the I R A and become members and then they feed the information back to British it 's been very successful and a couple of insiders is risky and we eventually when they are discovered who these people are , they have to be given new identities , plastic surgery and the works . |
18 | People from European Community countries can be recruited on to British TC schemes but as yet the EC offers no equivalent . |
19 | People from European Community countries can be recruited on to British TC schemes but as yet the EC offers no equivalent . |
20 | Since film became a major component of mass circulation popular culture , the anxieties and fears — and also the pleasures — associated with Black people have erupted on to British cinema screens in a non-systematic , erratic manner . |
21 | THE EC would almost certainly respond to any US tariff rise with duty increases of its own , the cost of which could be passed on to British consumers . |
22 | is , is , in London and we deal with the British Section which is are the particular bits , but the prisoners have to be vatted and looked at and found by the International Secretaires , then they 're passed on to British Section who pass them on to us and a great deal of research goes into making sure that they really are truly prisoners of conscience , that they 've been in prison for some er possibly because of their belief or religion or their race erm and they 've not taken or advocated violence not taken part in or advocated violence and then , then they are full prisoners of conscience erm we maybe allocated them . |
23 | But it seems that neither had any connection with a much more notable and wholly bona fide development , the National Union of Ships ' Stewards , Cooks , Butchers and Bakers which appeared in Liverpool in 1909 under the charismatic leadership of Joe Cotter , known as " Explosive Joe " , who , it has been claimed , had been fired by the Cunard Line for agitating against the influx of continental cooks and stewards on to British ships . |