Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [adj] british [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | London-born Mike MacFarlane established himself as the top black British athlete by winning the 200 metres European title , though his form thereafter lapsed and , although he made the 1980 Olympic sprint team , he failed to make the finals . |
| 2 | As the senior resident British official on the coast he was largely responsible for the British occupation of Lagos in 1851 and the deposition of King Pepple of Bonny in 1854 . |
| 3 | ICL was created in 1968 as a ‘ national champion ’ computer firm in a government inspired merger which brought together all of the then existing British mainframe computer firms . |
| 4 | Today the big draught breeds , especially in the Massif Central , have found new roles in the beef industry and over the last few years they have been exported in increasing numbers to boost beef production in several parts of the world , sometimes displacing some of the famous traditional British beef breeds . |
| 5 | Mosley , with his combative language and stormy oratory , proved later to be no sluggard at defending himself with the good old British fist . |
| 6 | The Vietnam Solidarity Campaign was beginning to take off — with the Communist/ Christian British Council for Peace in Vietnam eclipsed by its growth . |
| 7 | And then just up and shoot him in the good old British way . |
| 8 | What importance do in-law relationships have , especially in relation to structures of support , in the dominant white British culture ? |
| 9 | In the event , few attempts at car restraint were made because it was assumed that the money would be found for reconstruction , but in the crisis-ridden post-1960s British economy , available funds never approached the levels needed for a widespread application of environmental area principles . |
| 10 | ‘ Think we 'll stick to the good old British steak and kidney , ’ I said . |
| 11 | The quiet-spoken Esson has paid the price of seeing Defender slip from being third at one stage of the first leg to ninth in Punta , leaving Watkins to attack a two days , 17 hours , 37 minutes and 25 seconds deficit to make up on the leader , the New Zealand ketch Steinlager , and a 30 hours , 54 minutes , 52 seconds on the other top British challenger , Rothmans . |
| 12 | His song Someone Else 's Blues won the UK Contemporary Blues Song Of the Year award organised by the annual Great British Rhythm And Blues Festival at Colne . |