Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] british [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grim news comes in the wake of the controversial British Airways takeover of debt-ridden Dan-Air , which has been strongly criticised by Britain 's smaller airlines . |
| 2 | GAVIN HASTINGS , captain of the shattered British Isles team , admitted that tears were shed in the dressing room after the last-minute First Test defeat by New Zealand . |
| 3 | Mr Douglas Hurd , Foreign Secretary , telephoned the head of the two-man British Interests Section in Tripoli , Mr Allen Brown , yesterday and was told that the British community was calm . |
| 4 | Retiring in 1949 , after the formation of the nationalized British Railways system , Bulleid was invited to join Coras Iompair Eirann , the Irish state transport system , as consulting mechanical engineer and later chief mechanical engineer . |
| 5 | Fiona Lowe , 18 , from Inverness , won the silver medal in the British ladies junior championship biathlon last years and is a member of the full British ladies biathlon squad . |
| 6 | As though this were not enough , a gang of Ugandan footpads then raided the homes of the newly-arrived British police training mission and made off with their video machines — plus their training tapes for the local police on how to prevent burglaries . |
| 7 | Within a few months of his execution a comment in the Notable British Trials volume which dealt with his case put this misgiving into perspective . |
| 8 | In pursuit of this philosophy , the Railway Magazine in 1900 ran a series of articles on the notable British goods station , preserving for us a picture of these hives of economic activity at the height of the railway age . |