Example sentences of "which british [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Previously organised along functional lines , Bow Valley ( in which British Gas has a 54% stake ) restructured into separate business units , each an autonomous profit centre . |
2 | PLANS for a voluntary split of business interests is among options which British Gas has proposed to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission which is due to report on the future of the industry next month . |
3 | But it is doubtful if this argument will lead to any exceptions being made in an orchestrated campaign which could hit projects such as the proposals for a power plant which British Gas said yesterday it had negotiated with Bahrain . |
4 | They may be interested to learn more about the equal opportunities campaign , WISE : Women Into Science and Engineering — which British Gas has long supported . |
5 | Unbeaten all year and even expected to win by his rivals , the 26-year-old had looked odds-on to win the senior world title which British athletics had been expecting of him since he won the junior crown in 1986 . |
6 | And as race relations worsen at home ( the roots of which British colonialism planted ) the drift away continues . |
7 | This year alone — the sad one in which British rugby players are apparently rubbing their hands in greedy but pitful expectation — I 've relished long , doubtless tedious ( for them ) but totally gratis and generous interviews with the likes of Scudamore ( on his most precious mid-season afternoon off ) , Offiah , Gower , Gooch , Border , Simpson , Jacklin , Robson , the teenage millionaire Chang ; and even Mansell took a day off to drive me round and round Silverstone . |
8 | This year alone — the sad one in which British rugby players are apparently rubbing their hands in greedy but pitiful expectation — I 've relished long , doubtless tedious ( for them ) but totally gratis and generous interviews with the likes of Scudamore ( on his most precious mid-season afternoon off ) , Offiah , Gower , Gooch , Border , Simpson , Jacklin , Robson , the teenage millionaire Chang ; and even Mansell took a day off to drive me round and round Silverstone . |
9 | In its first year Eurosport has enjoyed access to live transmissions of the athletics , motorcycling and Formula One Grand Prix circuits and acres of European football , an advantage which British Satellite Broadcasting , the ‘ squarial ’ company hoping to transmit next year , claims is unfair . |
10 | Which British museum they going to ? |
11 | Which British King was married the most times ? |
12 | At least three future members of the Public Schools Commission of the 1960s came to talk and walk — Bernard Williams , David Donnison , John Vaizey — and to challenge the assumptions of 1944 upon which British schooling reposed . |
13 | This third National Government , like the Conservative-Liberal Unionist coalition of 1895–1905 , was the type of coalition government with which British history is much more familiar : a coalition between one major party and a fragment from another which has broken off because it disagrees with one of its parent party 's central tenets — in 1886 Home Rule , in 1931 unwillingness to reduce unemployment benefit on the part of Labour and unwillingness to tamper with free trade in the case of the Liberals . |
14 | ‘ The investigation has revealed major defects in the way in which British Rail 's Southern Region signalling and telecommunications department organised resignalling work , and supervised and tested completed wiring . ’ |
15 | Following extensive lobbying at the Select Committee stages of the Channel Tunnel Bill NOERC succeeded in promoting an amendment under which British Rail is required to consider post-1993 needs for passenger and freight services , especially for regions north of London . |
16 | ‘ We were the second example of 1960 's privatisation ( the Bluebell Railway in Sussex being the first ) but our 25-year hire purchase was the first and only one which British Rail permitted . |
17 | They will be diverted to run through the King 's Cross low-level station when it opens using the proposed West Hampstead chord line for which British Rail seeks powers in the British Railways ( No. 3 ) Bill . |
18 | I hold no specific brief for the Baxter scheme , but it has attempted to demonstrate that alternative schemes could be produced that would retain the Government 's proposal for a terminus — an interchange — at King 's Cross , but states that the plan would be more satisfactory if it were achieved without creating an enormous hole in the ground which British Rail proposes , with all the consequent destruction of homes , jobs and local neighbourhood . |
19 | All that the Government have decided so far is to cancel the scheme which British Rail spent hundreds of millions of pounds of our money developing . |
20 | But we must also recognise that the assessment which British Rail has carried out is deeply inadequate . |
21 | I do not want to delay progress , but someone must say that he is not entirely happy about the way in which British Rail has promoted the Bill and about the contents of some of the clauses . |
22 | I simply remind the House of some of the items of expenditure which British Rail seeks to undertake . |
23 | I do not claim to be an expert on the detailed financing of particular aspects of railway work , but I know that there are many useful and worthwhile projects which British Rail could undertake . |
24 | On Nov. 7 , 1989 , the public inquiry chaired by Sir Anthony Hidden , a Crown Court recorder , published its report into the railway accident near Clapham Junction in south London on Dec. 12 , 1988 , in which 35 people died , and for which British Rail ( BR ) had accepted responsibility [ see p. 36502 ] . |
25 | I am glad to have the opportunity of welcoming you to WISE V — this special mobile classroom which British Rail Signal and Telecommunications Engineering has funded is to provide your pupils a chance to experience the excitement of working on the equipment on board . |
26 | What is of particular interest is that direct investment overseas by such enterprises has become increasingly important over the post war years ( as opposed to portfolio investment , of which British capital has a long tradition ) , and that this phenomenon is especially important for the British economy . |
27 | The company , with plants in the West Midlands , Oxford , Glasgow and Llanelli in south Wales , was sold for £150 million which British Aerospace later recouped by floating its half share of DAF-Leyland on the stock market . |
28 | It also looks at the potential profits which British Aerospace may be able to make by selling redundant sites in Llanelli , Bathgate in Glasgow and the Cowley plant in Oxford which is due to close in the 1990s . |
29 | AIRBUS Industrie , the European venture in which British Aerospace has a stake , is cutting production of its 150-seat A320 airliner by 27 in 1993 and 1994 because customers have asked for delivery delays . |
30 | These include a version of the Sea Eagle , which British Aerospace is developing to arm RAF Tornado aircraft and Royal Navy sea Harriers ; the MM.40 long-range variant of Exocet ; the McDonnell Douglas Harpoon from the US ; and the Franco-Italian Otomat . |