Example sentences of "over [prep] british " in BNC.
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1 | She soon found a new challenge when she took over as British Team Manager in 1985 . |
2 | These informants were turned over to British intelligence in 1981 under an operation code-named Ward . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 ] . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | The vast majority worked in the old GWR Works taken over by British Rail after the war . |