Example sentences of "that britain have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British had been taken to the cleaners because foolish politicians in post-war Britain had elected to produce sociologists instead of engineers , and the predictable end result was that Britain had been short on wealth creators and long on spenders . |
| 2 | Tacitus lamented that Britain had been ‘ completely conquered and immediately thrown away ’ . |
| 3 | During his visit to London , President Yeltsin noted that Britain had been the first country to denounce the August coup , and the first to recognise Russia ; the first to propose Russian membership of the International Monetary Fund ; the first to propose an April deadline for that membership ; and the first to support a stabilisation fund for the rouble . |
| 4 | The only systematic disentanglement from corporatist theorizing and policy analysis of the administrative component was by R. E. Pahl and J. T. Winkler , writing at a time when it seemed that Britain had been developing in the direction of corporatism for the previous fifteen years and was experiencing sectoral planning , planning agreements and statutory or voluntary controls over prices , profit margins , dividends , wages , rents and the movement of capital . |
| 5 | Smith argues that Britain has been the classic case of this . |
| 6 | It is well known in the EFTA countries and in those of central Europe that Britain has been perhaps the strongest advocate of enlargement . |
| 7 | Some would say that there is a tendency for geologists to dig in distant places across the world on the assumption that Britain has been well explored . |