Example sentences of "[prep] britain the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But contrary to the popular belief that mink have been wiping out waterfowl and outcompeting the native otter , detailed studies have shown that over much of Britain the animal was either sharing abundant food resources with other predators or exploiting a niche which was previously unoccupied . |
| 2 | In some parts of Britain the breeding population of pied flycatchers can reach 120 pairs per sq km and in central Sweden as many as 200 pairs per sq km have been recorded . |
| 3 | But observers believe that even in the case of a Conservative victory in the rest of Britain the party 's low number of Scottish seats would force it to reconsider its position . |
| 4 | A. For people who live in the hills of Britain the lowland plains seem flat , dull and uninteresting . |
| 5 | But throughout Britain the system is one of commercial farming . |
| 6 | ( Rich 1986 ) In Britain the work of Claire Johnston and Pam Cook on Hollywood films by 1930s and 1940s women directors established an alternative brand of feminist writing on film , introducing criticism which drew on both Marxist theory of ideology ( especially Althusser ) and on French structuralism and semiotics ( Barthes , Levi-Strauss ) . |
| 7 | In Britain the work of E. Ray Lankester illustrates the strength of evolutionary morphology in the 1870s and 1880s . |
| 8 | Typically , in the wake of the uprisings of 1985 in Britain the government announced the advent of a new policy measure , the introduction of eight Inner City Task Forces to Moss Side ( Manchester ) , Chapeltown ( Leeds ) , Notting Hill ( London ) , North Peckham ( London ) , North Central ( Middlesbrough ) , Highfields ( Leicester ) , St Paul 's ( Bristol ) and Handsworth ( Birmingham ) . |
| 9 | In Britain the government has allowed tax relief for child care provided by employers , to encourage women to return to the work-force to compensate for the missing teenagers of the 1990s ( Chapter 13 ) . |
| 10 | Less than six weeks before the start of sweeping reforms to community care in Britain the government 's policy on mental health care is getting an increasingly bad press . |
| 11 | In Britain the opposite was the case , and on the way home I noticed daffodils in bloom and even cherry blossom in sheltered gardens in England . |
| 12 | There are parallels here with the beginnings of search in the USA , but in Britain the concept of headhunting , as indeed with other features of modern business practice , was pushed , not pulled . |
| 13 | In Britain the concept of case management gained currency rapidly after 1985 , when the House of Commons Social Services Committee 's report on community care recommended that ‘ the government give high priority to encouraging and monitoring the developing use of keyworkers . ’ |
| 14 | The spread of readily available and simple means of contraception has meant that the wife is less likely to spend much of her life in the bearing and rearing of children and is more likely to seek employment outside the home , thereby developing a source of income and interests outside her traditionally defined role : ‘ … in Britain the proportion of all wives in paid work went up from 10 per cent in 1911 ( as it remained in 1931 ) to 26 per cent in 1951 and 42 per cent in 1971 ’ ( Young and Willmott , 1975 , p. 101 ) . |
| 15 | In Britain the type remained dual-purpose in common with other European black-and-whites for many years , as a pied animal with white switch and stockings , and there is also a recessive red . |
| 16 | The reform was not carried through in the House but the phrenologists urged or reformers elsewhere and , indirectly , their enthusiasm led on to William Forster 's Education Bill of 1870 which established in Britain the system of elementary schools for all . |
| 17 | This study compares the experience of Britain and Italy because whereas in Britain the expansion of higher education has been relatively tightly controlled and graduate unemployment has rarely if ever reached serious proportions , Italy is regarded as the classic case of uncontrolled enrolments leading to chronic overproduction of graduates even in the most vocational subjects . |
| 18 | In Britain the ILP and the Communist Party were naturally the first to take up the call for united action . |
| 19 | In Britain the principle of a hierarchy of urban roads , involving primary , district and local distributors , with residential access roads in the housing areas , has become generally accepted since the work of Buchanan . |
| 20 | In Britain the merging together of the banking and securities business in the guise of financial conglomerates has rekindled this debate . |
| 21 | In Britain the organisation has 90,000 members and 320 local groups . |
| 22 | In Britain the organisation has 90,000 members and 320 local groups . |
| 23 | In Britain the development of informal , workplace-level bargaining and shopfloor activism since the 1950s led to some ( although by no means universal ) decentralisation of union government in some of the public service unions for instance but , most notably , in the Transport and General Workers Union ( TGWU ) . |
| 24 | IN Britain the development of the railways followed the Industrial Revolution , accelerated its impact , and pressed it forward into a new phase . |
| 25 | In Britain the equivalent is 3–4% ( itself a smaller proportion than in the 1960s ) . |
| 26 | The work was classified secret and in Britain the university workers joined closed laboratories , Thomson 's group moving to AEI ( Associated Electrical Industries ) Laboratories at Aldermaston and Thonemann moving to the Atomic Energy Research Establishment ( AERE ) at Harwell . |
| 27 | In Britain the defence of the country has been left for centuries to a Navy which did its work out of sight . |
| 28 | In Britain the law and order approach has been particularly associated with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher ( Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990 ) , but its effects have been felt in other countries as well , notably the USA . |
| 29 | Interaction between judges is probably more significant in the United States with the stable membership on the Supreme Court , but even in Britain the phenomenon of ‘ opinion deference ’ , whereby one or more judges defers to the opinion of another because he or she is acknowledged to be an expert or to have seniority , is not unknown . |
| 30 | Steve Harris , a director who joined Medeva soon after Taylor , had experience of OTC and explained to Chemistry in Britain the rationale for this decision . |