Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] the british " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly powerful transmitters , satellite relays , and cable systems have begun to open up the British electorate to a wider variety of broadcast news sources , while business mergers have effectively consolidated control of the press into a very few hands ( Newton , 1988a , p. 314 ; Negrine , 1989 , ch. 4 ) . |
| 2 | Many of these will be unleashed in Britain by Lynmart , a company headed by Mr Raggett , who worked closely with the Russians to set up the British Astronaut Project , JUNO . |
| 3 | Working in conjunction with the British Mountaineering Council and the Ramblers ' Association , COLA plans to set up the British Uplands Footpath Trust . |
| 4 | The decision of the Post Office to set up the British Broadcasting Company in 1922 as a co-operative of radio set manufacturers was an attempt to overcome a series of essentially technical and organizational problems : the need to satisfy set manufacturers by ensuring that all participated in the birth and development of broadcasting , the need to avoid chaos on the airwaves on the American scale , and the need to guarantee an efficient and satisfactory service to all listeners . |
| 5 | Whether Nadirpur liked it or not , it would be impossible to keep either the British or the French police out of the affair . |
| 6 | The Communist Party had continually attacked the ILP regarding the disaffiliation issue as a temporary manoeuvre " to hold back the British workers from the revolutionary policy of the Communist lnternational " . |
| 7 | During the Second World War the King of Saudi Arabia , Abdul Aziz , managed to convince both the British and the Germans that he was on their side . |
| 8 | PROF Raymond Plant , whose work could help to change radically the British constitution if Labour wins the election , has been a Labour Party member for 30 years . |
| 9 | PROFESSOR Raymond Plant , whose work could help to change radically the British constitution if Labour wins the election , has been a Labour Party member for 30 years . |
| 10 | They must be daft to take on the British Empire . |
| 11 | To push down the British price to that of the cheapest one quoted by any ‘ fly-by-night ’ would have a catastrophic effect on business worldwide . |
| 12 | Perhaps even more importantly , the British government as now completing its announced intention to withdrew its troops from " east of Suez " and , together with the Americans , had quietly been encouragingly the Shah to take over the British role as the " Policeman of the Gulf . " |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Two years later , when MGM had the not-so-bright idea of remaking Goodbye Mr Chips as a musical , and UA tried to bring back the British war film with The Battle of Britain ( 1970 ) , the bill for each picture was something like $12 million . |