Example sentences of "britain ['s] [noun sg] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , by the terms of Article 109J(i) of the Treaty of Maastricht ( to which Britain 's opt-out does not apply ) they were bound to do so . |
| 2 | BRITAIN 's government has decided not to give £6 million to a plan to build a cyclotron , a machine providing a controversial cancer therapy , at St Thomas 's Hospital in London . |
| 3 | Instead of tinkering , Britain 's government needs to rethink the case for public spending |
| 4 | Britain 's recession has been worse . |
| 5 | He 's been telling businessmen and women that Britain 's prosperity depends on their export success . |
| 6 | ‘ Britain 's reputation hangs on what happens to Hong Kong . |
| 7 | Public interest and involvement in Britain 's heritage has never been greater . |
| 8 | Every time SAVE Britain 's Heritage publishes a new catalogue of historic buildings in need of new owners and new uses we are swamped with orders and enquiries . |
| 9 | ‘ Britain 's performance has been worse in each succeeding phase , ’ he comments . |
| 10 | The third force forging Britain 's underclass stems from the labour market itself . |
| 11 | To be fair , Britain 's budget does matter more than most — even though , unlike the others , it is concerned with gathering revenue rather than spraying it around . |
| 12 | This is in turn largely explained by a sharp deterioration in Britain 's unit costs relative to those of her competitors which , until 16 September 1992 , was not reflected in a change in the exchange value of the pound . |
| 13 | The sterling/ Deutschmark rate would seem to have been particularly out of kilter when account is taken of the rise in Britain 's unit costs against those of Germany . |
| 14 | About half Britain 's sulphur rains down as wet deposition and half is dry fallout . |
| 15 | Our reappraisal of Britain 's defence needs will result in a major restructuring of our Armed Forces to take account of the changing world situation . |
| 16 | Britain 's experience shows how hard both problems are . |
| 17 | There is a consistent view that Britain 's history has been characterised by stability and decency , and that the moderate ‘ British way of life ’ is being undermined by the upsurge in delinquency . |
| 18 | The central objectives are to establish how Britain 's productivity compares with that of other advanced countries , to elucidate the factors contributing to the differences and to examine policy implications . |
| 19 | The changing age profile of Britain and other technologically advanced countries which share Britain 's pattern reflects , as we have already suggested , changes over time both in the size of successive birth cohorts and in mortality rates at all ages . |
| 20 | In this chapter we show first how the age structure of Britain 's population has changed during the twentieth century , and how it is likely to change in the century 's final years and beyond . |
| 21 | A staggering 70 per cent of Britain 's waste comes from packaging alone — plastics , foils , paper and glass — used not only to protect and retain food quality , but also to enhance product appeal , to give them an image which will raise their perceived value . |
| 22 | Similarly , in relation to a whole range of competitors , studies of particular industries tell the same story : Britain 's labour costs per hour were low but when these are translated into labour costs per unit of output the reverse is the case [ Kravis , 1976 ; Pratten , 1976 b ; Ray , 1976 ] . |
| 23 | Once the immediate crisis of 1940 had been weathered and the country embarked upon the long haul of productive effort and austerity , groups like the ‘ 1941 Committee ’ pressed Britain 's war aims in terms of plans for the future . |
| 24 | In 1977 , for example , the TUC told the Windscale Inquiry that ‘ the nuclear industry will need to be able to make a sizeable contribution to Britain 's energy supplies by the late 1990s ’ . |
| 25 | The company estimates that wind power alone could supply at least 10 per cent of Britain 's energy needs by the year 2025 . |
| 26 | Since 1945 , Britain 's record has been consistently better than that which she achieved in the interwar years — an average of 20 per cent of GDP as compared with 11 per cent [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] . |
| 27 | She is represented as accoutred with a shield and a trident , the traditional attributes of the Sea-god Neptune , to symbolize the fact that Britain 's strength depends on her sea-power as ‘ ruler of the waves ’ . |
| 28 | But once Britain 's economy recovers , he thinks , spending should resume its downward trend , thanks to the Thatcher legacy of expenditure control , falling debt-interest payments and defence cuts . |
| 29 | Absolutes aside , it is clear that relative to other advanced industrial countries Britain 's economy has grown for too long less sturdily . |
| 30 | ‘ A substantial part of Britain 's trade takes place within multinational firms ; components produced in one country are shipped to a subsidiary of the same firm in another country , Ford motor cars , for example , are produced on a European-wide basis . |