Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] british [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bethnal Green 's Francis Ampofo meets Scot James Drummond for the vacant British flyweight title in London next Tuesday . |
| 2 | The steam centre based in the Warwick Road , Birmingham is situated in between the main British Rail diesel multiple unit maintenance depot and re-fuelling sidings , complete with a large car-park for several hundred cars . |
| 3 | The grim news comes in the wake of the controversial British Airways takeover of debt-ridden Dan-Air , which has been strongly criticised by Britain 's smaller airlines . |
| 4 | GAVIN HASTINGS , captain of the shattered British Isles team , admitted that tears were shed in the dressing room after the last-minute First Test defeat by New Zealand . |
| 5 | This then was the Wolverton Royal Train of the later years of the LMSR and of the early British Rail period . |
| 6 | His scrupulously tidy , chic apartment , a converted artist 's studio , contains furniture of his own design , pop art on the walls , a bookshelf prominently displaying the very latest Tom Wolfe volume , The Electric Kook-Aid Acid Test , and , on the coffee table , a copy of the prestigious British film magazine Sight and Sound . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I can announce today , a new scheme of the Know How Fund on top of the ordinary British Council programme to help Poland on the ambitious Polish aim of achieving 20,000 new English language teachers by the year 2,000 , and as a contribution ; as a help , an immediate help to that scheme er we ; the Know How Fund will provide on top of the British Council programme £400,000 for the teacher training colleges in Poland . |
| 9 | This leaflet is produced by the Health Education Council in conjunction with the organisers of The Great British Bike Ride , an annual sponsored bike ride from Land 's End to John o' Groats organised by Bike Events and sponsored this year , once again , for Friends of the Earth . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mr Douglas Hurd , Foreign Secretary , telephoned the head of the two-man British Interests Section in Tripoli , Mr Allen Brown , yesterday and was told that the British community was calm . |
| 12 | The tale of Bob Thomas and Lyndon Laney 's company has all the trappings of the classic British success story . |
| 13 | They are also the first to contain the new style ‘ classless ’ honours , with the end of the separate British Empire Medal for outstanding community service . |
| 14 | The Dutch types were overwhelmingly preferred during the 1940s , when there was a general boom for dual-purpose breeds in Britain , but a few Canadian animals were preserved , bolstered by Canadian gifts of heifers to promote the Holstein in Britain which led to the formation of the separate British Holstein Society in 1947 . |
| 15 | But there were no signs of strain as they carried out their three brief engagements of the day the ceremonial greeting at the airport , a wreath-laying at the National Cemetery and the formal opening of the new British Embassy building in Seoul . |
| 16 | There is more than a grain of truth in this scenario , despite Mrs Thatcher 's undoubted role in the creation of the new British Library building . |
| 17 | Retiring in 1949 , after the formation of the nationalized British Railways system , Bulleid was invited to join Coras Iompair Eirann , the Irish state transport system , as consulting mechanical engineer and later chief mechanical engineer . |
| 18 | The research attempts to bring an understanding of the contemporary British training infrastructure to an examination of the reconstruction of skill in the context of a changing labour market . |
| 19 | On the evening of December 15 , starting at 6.30 pm , members of the institute will give demonstrations of their various techniques , and at 7.30 pm a lecture will be given by the head of the Modern British Art Department of Christie 's . |
| 20 | Many of the small British information technology firms began life as importers and distributors of American-made systems . |
| 21 | Even after the Committee had been disbanded , the officially sponsored League Conference had called for its reformation and supported participation in the National Youth Campaign , an offshoot of the Communist-controlled British Youth Peace Assembly . |
| 22 | The costs of the preferred British Rail route have risen from £1.7bn to between £3.5bn and £4bn partly because of extra tunnelling insisted upon by ministers after protests in south London and Kent . |
| 23 | More topically Smith drives home the absurdity of the present British water industry installing meters in households and then setting up a huge bureaucracy to monitor them and gather payment — a move that will make water much more expensive ( and thus more attractive to the private companies which will eventually provide it ) . |
| 24 | Paul and Miranda Gunn had their charming young family to help them look after the guests ; their two sons Mr Munro Gunn who works at John D. Wood , and Mr Marcus Gunn who had just got home from Paris , where is working at the Paris Business School ; also their two daughters Miss Petronella Gunn , who is studying at Bristol University ; and seventeen-year-old Miss Rosie Gunn , who is a member of the Junior British Eventing team , and last year competed at Lausanne , where she won the award for the highest placed British rider . |
| 25 | Fiona Lowe , 18 , from Inverness , won the silver medal in the British ladies junior championship biathlon last years and is a member of the full British ladies biathlon squad . |
| 26 | He has announced that he will join patriotic singer Johnny Lydon , host of the popular British variety program The Johnny Lydon Band Show , in a rendition of the star 's biggest hit , ‘ God Save the Queen . ’ |
| 27 | As though this were not enough , a gang of Ugandan footpads then raided the homes of the newly-arrived British police training mission and made off with their video machines — plus their training tapes for the local police on how to prevent burglaries . |
| 28 | But that really wo n't last long much after the erm , well we do n't know , I er , nobody really knows , I mean , British Aerospace has fragmented into all of these property groups and Rover and everybody 's got fingers in the pie and we 're not , we 're sort of caught half way between short-term aims to make a quick profit from trying to get Shell in you know and that sort of thing , but I mean , we just need to talk about , nobody really knows what the long-term policy of the main British Aerospace Board is . |
| 29 | In 1967 he was appointed deputy chairman of the nationalised British Steel Corporation and in 1971 took on the additional responsibility of chief executive . |
| 30 | One of the crack British Army regiment 's most fervent critics has joined up ! |