Example sentences of "had [vb pp] the british " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short , quite apart from economic or foreign policy considerations , the social momentum which had sustained the British throughout their difficult experiences since 1945 was not being maintained . |
| 2 | James Hamilton had joined the British Army at the outbreak of war . |
| 3 | It must have seemed a pardonable exaggeration in the political rhetoric of a young man who had joined the British Fascisti Ltd on 6 December 1923 and had seen the brave hopes of the movement degenerate into a crackpot collection of factions and rivalry by the 1930s . |
| 4 | While still at Lincoln 's Inn he had joined the British India Society and the Anti-Corn Law League , both of which confirmed his radical political leanings . |
| 5 | Ali had attacked the British bases in Iraq , and so created a threat to pipelines and oilfields vital to the Allied cause . |
| 6 | It was amazing that someone who had won the British Open three times and come second once over the past four years should have to qualify , but the boss just got on with the job . |
| 7 | Mr Stack is vice president Europe for Air Express International and he was speaking just after AEI had won the British International Freight Association 's 1993 Air Division Gold Award . |
| 8 | Again , de Gaulle had approached the British government with a proposal for a Free French expedition to rally a strategically important part of the French empire . |
| 9 | On 20 June 1837 Victoria had ascended the British throne . |
| 10 | Sir Graham Hills , former principal of Strathclyde University , said Japan had exploited the British science base more effectively than Britain . |
| 11 | In return for the money received by Northern Ireland from the British taxpayer , the Unionists had turned the British flag into a party-political symbol and had made a mockery of the British tradition of social justice . |
| 12 | Nearing Sligo , we passed Collooney , where General Humbert and his French-Irish army had defeated the British . |
| 13 | This had been there for thousands of years and had defeated the British Raj 's efforts to move it . |
| 14 | Otto von Habsburg , the Habsburg heir and now a Euro-MP for Bavaria , argues that Hitler 's National Socialists would never have gained power if the Weimar Republic had adopted the British voting system after the First World War . |
| 15 | The Korean War and several other border wars , backed by the super-powers , had been judged not worth pressing the nuclear button for and it was this consideration which had produced the British H-Bomb in 1957 . |
| 16 | At a meeting in the Bahamas the previous month President Kennedy had persuaded the British prime minister , Harold Macmillan , to agree to the MLF in return for American Polaris missiles . |
| 17 | But Charlie 's Indians ’ — she had avoided the British jargon with Magill Maxim had noticed — ‘ are a big outfit and big outfits tend to behave in patterns . |
| 18 | The Heysel tragedy was but the latest incident in a catalogue of infamy which had dogged the British game , both home and abroad , for as long as people could remember ( ibid . ) . |
| 19 | ( Subscribers to the ‘ cock-up ’ theory of history will be interested to learn that the framers of the American constitution were much impressed by Montesquieu 's idea that it was the separation of powers in Britain that had enabled the British to maintain their freedom from tyranny . |
| 20 | But once we had digested the British skills , we took them over . |
| 21 | There was the gleam of a Marat in his eyes , and his eloquence took on a Satanic ring when he invoked the rising wrath of his colleagues against the festering scum that by cowardice and sloth had reduced the British Empire to a moribund thing , in peril of annihilation . |
| 22 | After the directives following the Casablanca Conference of January 1943 had linked the British ‘ area bombing ’ by night to the American daytime ‘ precision raids ’ in a ‘ round-the-clock bombing ’ strategy , which formed the allied combined-bomber offensive , the raids — described , in this case aptly , by German propaganda as ‘ terror-bombing ’ — escalated rapidly in extent and ferocity . |
| 23 | In the summer of 1988 Linford drove to the West London Stadium in the Escort XR3i that Budget Rental had loaned the British Olympic Association for the use of potential team members . |
| 24 | By June , when the war was over , the Falklands had entered the British vocabulary : a word with mixed connotations of heroism , waste , duplicity , valour and a desperate , atavistic yearning for national pride . |
| 25 | Seaspeed had asked the British Hovercraft Corporation ( BHC ) to make the cross-Channel SR.N4 more profitable . |
| 26 | Aung San had given them an example in the early stages of the advance when he accorded summary trial to an Indo-Burmese or Muslim-Burmese headman who had assisted the British : Bo Aung San ran him through with a bayonet . |
| 27 | On 27 April the British Ambassador in Belgrade , Ralph Stevenson , had cabled the British Resident Minister 's office in Caserta [ KP 40 ] , pointing out that Allied troops might very soon make contact with " anti-partisan Yugoslav forces " . |
| 28 | A great arrowhead , outlined with coloured markers , had split the British Front wide open . |
| 29 | But the fighting had left the British and French armies even weaker . |
| 30 | The long wars against France had left the British more confident about their position overseas than before , but not necessarily more interested in activity outside Europe . |