Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh adv] the british " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know how the British press sees Austrian politics but there was a short note in the Daily Telegraph announcing that Margaret Thatcher was due to meet the Austrian President and you , with the headline ‘ Thatcher to meet von Karajan' ! |
| 2 | This chapter first describes how the British and Spanish political strategies discussed in the previous chapter have created pressures for change in the public enterprises , pressures encapsulated in the idea of ‘ commercialism ’ . |
| 3 | As the bride was only sixteen and moved in ‘ international circles ’ in Italy , the press had a day-out on the wedding and ‘ Student of the Press ’ noted how the British press ‘ had shown its enterprise and sturdy individuality . |
| 4 | But Dilys Powell could reasonably complain of Jamaica Inn ( 1939 ) that there was ‘ hardly any suspense , hardly any of the building up to a climax which makes the dullest American film tolerable ’ , and enthuse about Carol Reed 's A Girl Must Live ( 1939 ) , saying it showed how the British could make ‘ a comedy which has the speed and glitter and impudence of the best American comedies . ’ |
| 5 | E. The age-sex pyramid shows how the British people are divided by age groups . |
| 6 | It said it could n't understand why the British Amateur Weight Lifter 's Association had reached the decision not to take action against the two weighlifters . |
| 7 | An irritated Dutch official said : ‘ If the Danes can do it with a referendum by July , I do not see why the British would need a longer time . ’ |
| 8 | Signs of this were evident at Christmas and , happily , at Easter , too , Not only did Channel 4 go out in peak time with Granada 's king Lear on Easter Monday but also had the bright idea of showing us on that day , in Are you having any fun ? archive material demonstrating how the British had determinedly convinced themselves they were enjoying themselves as long ago as 1896 and as lately as 1964 . |
| 9 | Paglia asks why the British refuse to acknowledge her sexuality and the drawings were intended to illustrate the point . |
| 10 | When asked why the British Girls were so superior in his style of dancing he replied : |
| 11 | The foregoing should help to explain why the British so persistently entertained the improbable notion that the Masai were ‘ loyal ’ : the wish was father to the thought . |
| 12 | Tolstoy 's attempt to explain why the British did not see the massacre , by suggesting that there was a hill in the way , is therefore superfluous . |
| 13 | As part of the Minister 's continued opposition to settlements , can he say how the British Government , as a member of the troika , will discharge their responsibilities under the recent protocol signed with Israel and the European Economic Community to ensure that none of the money will go to any Israeli projects with any connection with settlements on the west bank or Gaza ? |