Example sentences of "britain [vb mod] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obligations incurred by one member in Britain may be honoured by another in Pakistan . |
| 2 | Furthermore , a course in Britain may be regarded by some as a reward for senior staff , whilst a course in the south would attract only those appropriate for it . |
| 3 | Life in Britain may be glorified by the expatriate and family who come to believe that everything back home is perfect compared with their life style abroad . |
| 4 | In many societies , the classification and labelling of objects appears to indicate a close relationship between artefact and particular function , and the labels ‘ kitchen chair ’ or ‘ fryingpan ’ in Britain may be matched , for example , by an equivalent close relationship between pots and their labels in Nepal ( Birmingham 1975 ) . |
| 5 | The origins of the search business in Britain may be explained by a combination of long-term and short-term factors . |
| 6 | The reason for the popularity of Hercules in Britain may be sought in the spread and growth of the Salvation Cults from the late second century . |
| 7 | First , the ‘ working class ’ in Britain may be seen as a subset of the economically defined working class ( i.e. wage and salary earning employees separated from the means of production ) , although it probably also includes sections of the petty bourgeoisie ( in the strict sense of small-scale producers and traders employing their own means of production and labour power ) who regard themselves as ‘ working for a living ’ . |
| 8 | Christian Britain may be reconciled to war ; Muslim Britain is in uproar . |
| 9 | BRITAIN may be pulling out of Hong Kong but trusty Tykes are putting the chips down in the battle for the hearts — and stomachs — of the Chinese . |
| 10 | Although the recent decisions on the Channel Tunnel and the PBKAL ( Paris-Brussels-Cologne-Amsterdam-London ) line are signs that Britain may be coming in from the cold , the country is still seen as an isolated outpost of a European transport network in which the main traffic flows will run north to south linking the industrial areas of France , Germany and Italy . |
| 11 | Medical teachers in Britain may be divided into three main groups : a tiny minority who are trained in educational theory and methods ( who often are not medically qualified themselves ) , staff holding official ‘ teaching ’ appointments but without formal teacher training , and NHS doctors who teach ( in effect , most NHS doctors ) . |
| 12 | While it recommended that the British should not enjoy even the hint of a veto in any form of consultative machinery , it did not think that Britain should be treated as a satellite . |
| 13 | Most radical opinion was outraged by the fact that Britain should be reversing its traditional hostility to Russia just at the moment when defeat by the Japanese in 1904–5 , and the revolutionary upheavals which followed , had rocked the foundations of Tsarist tyranny . |
| 14 | ROAD RUNNING WILL , ALONG WITH TRACK AND FIELD , CROSS-COUNTRY AND OTHER AREAS OF THE SPORT , HAVE ITS OWN COMMISSION AND WITH ALL CLUBS IN BRITAIN HAVING A VOICE AND A VOTE AT BRITISH ATHLETICS FEDERATION LEVEL YOU WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO VOICE YOUR VIEWS ON HOW ROAD RUNNING IN BRITAIN SHOULD BE RUN IN FUTURE . |
| 15 | In March this year in its first report , the panel said Britain should be cabled in time for country 's satellite TV service due to start in 1986 . |
| 16 | These are the nations with which Britain should be compared and by reference to which her laws should be judged . |
| 17 | So guide books on London , the stately homes of England , places of historical interest and beauty spots in Great Britain should be studied . |
| 18 | Miss Rawlings , formerly married to Lord Wolfson , tells me : ‘ We felt strongly that young artists from all around Britain should be supported , though we also chose pieces of two established artists , Michael Craig-Martin and Boyd Webb , and also a lovely bronze by Kenneth Armitage . ’ |
| 19 | But by now the American work was going well and President Roosevelt decided that future exchanges with Britain should be kept to a minimum . |
| 20 | The main pan of the article was devoted to arguing that the National Front had taken into account the relevant facts in coming to its conclusions that Britain should be populated solely by white-skinned people . |
| 21 | THE LAW in Britain should be changed to allow doctors to terminate the lives of their patients in exceptional circumstances , a Scots professor said yesterday . |
| 22 | However , in spite of that , the availability both here and in Britain should be known to the public at large . |
| 23 | The devaluation of sterling was accompanied by a grudging American agreement that Britain should be allowed to limit her European responsibilities in order to preserve her role at the centre of the Sterling Area . |
| 24 | Britain was comparatively slow in acquiring a welfare state by comparison with some other societies , notably Germany , and it is in the context of this struggle to achieve a more adequate provision of social welfare that the early uses of social surveys in Britain must be understood . |
| 25 | ‘ Church planting in Britain must be done in a densely packed denominational shrubbery , ’ comments veteran missionary Michael Griffiths . |
| 26 | Yet personal encounters , first as Cripps 's deputy in the Treasury and later as chancellor of the exchequer , persuaded Gaitskell that there were some people in Washington who appreciated that Britain must be granted some safeguards for her economy . |
| 27 | There are reasons , therefore , why Britain might be expected to have had a somewhat higher than average share of its workforce in manufacturing industry . |
| 28 | Indeed , there are groups whose very power in Britain might be jeopardized if they were seen as identified with specific political parties . |
| 29 | Lord Alexander said that problems in Britain could be tackled by using ‘ best practice ’ but , he said , ‘ this may need reinforcement , either through a widely accepted code of practice which is effective in securing payment or , in the last resort , through legislation . ’ |
| 30 | The US Navy , distraught at the prospect of having its own timetable for deploying the new missile delayed by budget cuts , has emphasised that relations with Britain could be affected if the money is not restored . |