Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [adj] british [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One hang-up for the profit-motivated British garage is that they feel it is not worth taking on work for less than a tenner . |
| 2 | Asked to organise a tea party to raise funds for the Royal British Legion women 's section 's national birthday scheme , Liphook branch hit on the idea of turning theirs into a Mad Hatter 's tea party . |
| 3 | The seaside landlady figures prominently in the popular perception of the traditional British seaside holiday , but things were far from static in the inter-war period . |
| 4 | Fans of the great British sausage have formed an appreciation society to protect what they say is a healthy and nutritious food . |
| 5 | If Nick Serota can raise the money for his plans then I would support them , provided the bulk of the historic British collection was on display . |
| 6 | This short , meticulously-honed volume sketches the background not only to the Los Angeles riots , but also to the result of the recent British election . |
| 7 | This is much more than sociologist 's simplification ; it seems to be deeply rooted in the mind of the ordinary British citizen . " |
| 8 | the economic ties of the old British Empire were tightened during this period and Britain remained at the centre of that group of countries ' trade and finance |
| 9 | It was the ninth goal of the season for a player who embodies all the traditional strengths of the old-fashioned British centre-forward but has been used only once against Czechoslovakia in Graham Taylor 's two- year reign . |
| 10 | But it was an axiom of mid-nineteenth-century employers that wages must be kept as low as possible , though intelligent entrepreneurs with international experience , like Thomas Brassey , the railway builder , were beginning to point out that the labour of the well-paid British workman was in fact cheaper than that of the abysmally paid coolie , because his productivity was so much higher . |
| 11 | Around 10% of the entire British population are disabled in some way or another , of which 20–25% are mentally handicapped . |
| 12 | Routes here provide some of the best climbs at their standard in Britain ; Sassenach , Centurion , The Bat , Titan 's Wall , Agrippa — names that represent the essence of the great British climbing adventure . |
| 13 | Produced in association with The Great British Bike Ride © |
| 14 | A new feature , in the grounds , is a series of sculptures exhibited in association with The Royal British Society of Sculptures . |
| 15 | Now the question is whether the U.K. government will bring the age and value limits in force under the current British export procedures into line with the EEC limits . |
| 16 | Inspector of Ancient Monuments , will give an illustrated talk on the 18th-century British soldier at home and how he spent his spare time . |
| 17 | An American TV cameraman filming in Oxford Street said : ‘ We are doing a piece on the great British spirit . ’ |
| 18 | I was with a group of music journalists at the recent British Music Fair , talking to the President of an ascending international guitar company , and the topic turned to instrument design . |
| 19 | In 1967 he was appointed deputy chairman of the nationalised British Steel Corporation and in 1971 took on the additional responsibility of chief executive . |
| 20 | There was an extensive export trade to Europe , North America and every part of the world-wide British empire , each country being catered for individually . |
| 21 | The great British banger … an essential part of the great British breakfast . |
| 22 | The level of the average British male may be 6 but given the incidence of heart disease in Scotland , perhaps the average is not to be desired . |
| 23 | Are not the Government bungling the building of the new British library , with expensive delays and omissions ? |
| 24 | On the contrary , it was the fusion of executive and legislative power that was at the heart of the eighteenth-century British constitution ! ) |
| 25 | TWENTY-seven members and guests of the Headley and District Branch of the Royal British Legion recently enjoyed their branch supper at the Passfield Oak Hotel . |
| 26 | He has served for 30 years as the local church warden and he spent 42 years as treasurer of the local branch of the Royal British Legion . |
| 27 | Leading members of the British Ex-Services Wheelchair Sports Association travelled as VIP guests in a ceremony hosted jointly by the railway and Tywyn branch of the Royal British Legion . |
| 28 | The Willington branch of the Royal British Legion holds a social evening at the Victoria Club on Tuesday . |
| 29 | copies of the Rules of the proposed British Gas Executive Share Option Scheme and British Gas ( Overseas Employees ) Share Option Scheme and of the Rules as amended of the British Gas Sharesave Scheme and of the Trust Deed and Rules of the British Gas Employee Profit Sharing Scheme * . |
| 30 | That anyone of Milner 's mental power and insight could envisage a course of events which ran contrary both to the logic and experience of the actual British Empire over a hundred and fifty years is a staggering fact . |