Example sentences of "[prep] britain [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On economic and monetary union , it would be irresponsible for any Government to ask the people of Britain to decide now that we should adopt , at a future date , a single European currency which will have far-reaching implications for the conduct of monetary and economic union . |
| 2 | Alert 's flying tour of Britain brought home to us that the new GRP planing hulls could be used for long range patrols when required and that they were not just " hot rods " for use in sheltered waters . |
| 3 | Labour 's positive agenda opens up the prospect for the first time since we joined the Community in 1973 of Britain participating constructively in the European Community . |
| 4 | Winter of Discontent boxes Callaghan in , people of Britain get so sick of futile Nostalgie de la Blitz privations that they vote in Thatcher , 4 May . |
| 5 | Scotland eventually benefited greatly from Union with England in 1707 , but in the heyday of nineteenth-century expansion large parts of the western and northern periphery of Britain remained bitterly poor : the clearance of people to make way for sheep caused large-scale migration from the highlands and islands of Scotland , and a large part of the population of Ireland was forced to emigrate through the scarcity of food . |
| 6 | I have seen males of the genus Nymphon on the shores of Britain carrying as many as six bundles of eggs , each from a different female . |
| 7 | The prospect of Britain becoming irretrievably stuck in a slough without forward movement is not attractive , for us now or as trustees for our children and successors . |
| 8 | The east coast of Britain has notably less rainfall than the country 's average . |
| 9 | The post-1974 pattern of local government throughout Britain appears substantially different from that which it replaced . |
| 10 | Although the United States of America continued to remain neutral , their relationship with Britain became further enhanced by Winston Churchill being Prime Minister , as his mother had been an American citizen , and Churchill was able , in September 1940 , to bargain successfully to obtain fifty destroyer-class ships with which to combat the German naval forces — mainly submarine boats — which were endeavouring to blockade sea borne supplies reaching Britain . |
| 11 | With Britain getting closer to Iran and with the US constantly improving its rapport with Syria , we felt that now we were all together , we could be released without having to wait for all the governments to restore relations . |
| 12 | Both came near success , but , in the end , were defeated by those in the US Administration , who believed fervently in the preservation of the American monopoly , and who considered that sharing with Britain constituted too great a risk to American security . |
| 13 | Another academic suggested that Clinton 's ties with Britain lie only in his Oxford education , that he lacks the sentimental camaraderie of the last generation of US presidents who remembered , first hand , Britain as a redoubtable ally first against fascism and then communism . |
| 14 | There is no doubt that most people in Britain eat far more than they need , and probably more than is good for them . |
| 15 | ‘ After the war the Russians encouraged the Poles in Britain to return home and so a number of army people — including Nowak — went back . |
| 16 | The political balance in Britain tipped quite markedly at that time , with important implications for social policy . |
| 17 | Britain annually publishes three times as many titles , relative to population , as the United States ; and most books published in Britain sell abroad , if calculated as to copies . |
| 18 | GRE is also suffering from losses in Britain caused mainly by rising mortgage indemnity claims on repossessed houses . |
| 19 | The remarkable expansion in the number of mosques in Britain stems directly from this major religious confrontation , and from the development of Sufi orders in Britain . |
| 20 | On the other hand , people in Britain grew increasingly impressed by the success of the Soviet troops on the eastern front . |
| 21 | At the international level of analysis it seems that the elderly in Britain fare much worse than their European colleagues . |
| 22 | for the moment , however , the pattern of drug abuse in Britain remains as varied as ever — with home-produced drugs such as amphetamines as serious a problem as those that hit the headlines . |
| 23 | However confident the mass of the population may have felt in the durability of Britain 's world role , those who ruled in Britain knew full well the kind of dangers the country faced and the need to take steps to meet them … |
| 24 | No-one in Britain knew yet how Neighbours was about to take hold of the nation , but many also turned down Kylie , telling her management … |
| 25 | Those who have come from a joint family in India , Pakistan or Bangladesh to live alone with their husbands in Britain suffer most . |
| 26 | I shall take great pleasure in saying to those to whom the hon. Gentleman wishes me to speak — here comes the opportunity that I mentioned earlier — that , as the chairman of Ford in Britain observed yesterday , Labour 's economic policies would prove suicidal for our economy . |
| 27 | The question of what kind of inroad AIDS is making in Britain became more insistent as the programme , written and produced by Alec Nishett , progressed . |
| 28 | But this reform could only feasibly be carried out within companies and plants by single employers , rather than by multi employer associations.7 Hence , the move towards single employer bargaining in Britain became more firmly established , especially in large firms which had the necessary managerial expertise to undertake such reforms . |
| 29 | This means that the taxation system in Britain became more regressive , since all those living in particular areas were charged the same , regardless of their ability to pay . |
| 30 | It is thanks to these men of ability and vision that the deaf communities in Britain became so well established and respected , and that the deaf communities were drawn together into a national movement which after a false start exists to this day in the British Deaf Association . |