Example sentences of "[prep] the british as " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least two-thirds of Americans have never had any reason to think of the British as their Anglo-Saxon cousins ; the East European émigrés who ran the studios were no more likely than their successors to look upon British producers as partners , and nobody would queue to see a film just because it was British . |
| 2 | Bank debts were paid back and replaced with equity in a spate of fund-raising that put French firms ahead of the British as equity issuers ( see chart 23 ) . |
| 3 | In 1856 the first US consul , Townsend Harris , arrived in Japan , and it was largely due to his tenacity , and his use of the British as bogeymen , that the July 1858 US Japan Treaty of Amity and Commerce was concluded . |
| 4 | Sol Wagner , an American sexologist , lecturing in Britain in 1977 , referred to the British as " obsessed " with sex ; and to some extent this is true , due as he pointed out to the double-thinking of those of us who retain inhibitions and hang-ups born of earlier years and the mixture of fascination and revulsion connected with sex which lies so deep in many of us . |
| 5 | There were the political monks , U Ottama and U Wisara , and there was the supposed king , Thupannaka Galuna Raja , known to the British as Saya San , whose revolt in 1930 affected one-quarter of Burma . |
| 6 | The word I have here glossed as " mankind " was Jinghpaw , which is the term by which the people known to the British as Kachins describe themselves . |
| 7 | In all the postwar crises in Anglo-American relations , none was so emotive or humiliating to the British as Suez . |