Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] britain [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Wyn Roberts hangs on as Britain 's longest-serving minister of state because he is the only Tory MP who writes poetry in Welsh . |
| 2 | But , despite a growing public awareness , with huge crowds for the round-Britain event at most of the stage finishes , the Manchester city-centre leg which sealed Lillywhite 's win could have brought the curtain down on Britain 's best-known cycle race . |
| 3 | The Act was a success , although the ‘ particulates ’ ( mainly soot ) raining down over Britain 's cities had anyway been gradually decreasing since the 1920s . |
| 4 | THE CHOICE of Sardinia — now confirmed as the venue for the opening stages of England 's 1990 World Cup campaign — satisfies the requirement laid down by Britain 's Minister for Sport , Mr Colin Moynihan , that these matches ought to be played ‘ on an island where the problem can be contained . ’ |
| 5 | Toni gets to work ALEC GILROY may have walked out on the Rovers Return , but 16-year-old Toni Canning is more than ready to take over from Britain 's favourite landlord . |
| 6 | Taking off with Britain 's next hanggliding champion . |
| 7 | ON JUNE 1st Zeneca , the drugs firm about to be spun off from Britain 's ICI , will discover the result of its £1.3 billion ( $1 billion ) rights issue . |
| 8 | Zeneca , a new drugs firm spun off by Britain 's ICI , is about to make a £1.3 billion ( $1 billion ) rights issue . |
| 9 | THE French government has launched a programme to set up a nationwide telecommunications research network , in an effort to catch up with Britain 's JANET system and Germany 's DFN . |
| 10 | WARNINGS about traffic jams building up on Britain 's motorways may soon come courtesy of Soviet spy satellites , following a deal struck yesterday . |
| 11 | As self-professed guardians of the Empire and Britain 's national greatness the Conservatives had to face up to Britain 's relative decline as an imperial and economic power . |
| 12 | The Hong Kong contract is a boost for Transpotech , the marketing company set up by Britain 's Transport and Road Research Laboratory . |
| 13 | With 800–900 of Switzerland 's 2300 professors due to retire before the end of the decade , the Swiss have taken a leaf out of Britain 's book and set up a scheme for appointing ‘ new blood ’ assistant professors at the rate of 300 in each of the next two four-year planning periods . |
| 14 | The hearing , which is now 12 weeks old , was told that the fitting out of Britain 's first civil PWR could generate 6000 manufacturing jobs . |
| 15 | Ireland had been slipping out of Britain 's grasp — Sinn Fein had almost swept the board in the local elections , they had set up their own provisional government in Dublin and in some areas of the country theirs was the only authority recognised — and , on top of all that , in September alone there had been over two thousand IRA arms raids . |
| 16 | The initial reaction had been an assumption that shares would fall on the back of the changes in Advanced Corporation Tax and tax credits on dividends which , to put it simplistically , will suck £1 billion out of Britain 's pension funds , the largest providers of equity for industry . |
| 17 | The six students , studying ‘ A ’ level Drama and Theatre Arts at St Mary 's were chosen to help out with Britain 's leading theatre company . |
| 18 | BitC is a charity , set up in 1981 , to breathe life back into Britain 's dying towns and cities . |
| 19 | Well I , well er I came back to Britain er I , I was er liberated by General Patton in a , a small place called Erfurt I was flown from Erfurt into Cherbourg , and from Cherbourg into a small place called Amersham which was a reception station for prisoners of war , where we were treated er on entering the camp we were handed a telegram . |
| 20 | We 've lined up a host of money-saving family days out at Britain 's fabulous theme parks — and you can cash in . |
| 21 | The work is being carried out at Britain 's first centre for research into the economic value of drugs , based at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School , Dundee . |
| 22 | THERE 'S not much to sing about in Britain 's current economic climate — but you would never know it . |
| 23 | Proposals were put forward by the owners during the 1980s for the development of the site and were opposed by Save Britain 's Heritage . |