Example sentences of "britain [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Born the son of a bank official , he was 23 when he made the five-week voyage to Britain aboard the Northern Star armed with an Auckland University degree to take up his scholarship place at Balliol College , Oxford , in the early 1960s . |
| 2 | The last consignment left Britain aboard the Argentinian ship Tierra del Fuego II on 19 March last year . |
| 3 | The naval support given immediately by Britain for the Korean operation was seen by the Foreign Office as a useful demonstration of Britain 's ‘ capacity to act as a world power with the support of the Commonwealth , and of its quickness to move when action rather than words are necessary ’ . |
| 4 | By October she was back in London , billeted in a students ' hostel at Southampton Row , and worshipping at Regent Hall , where the Australian group had made such an impact the night of their arrival in Britain for the International Youth Congress . |
| 5 | ESTATE agents valuing every house in Britain for the new council tax have had many of their estimates thrown out by the Inland Revenue . |
| 6 | These potatoes are round and white , a new Dutch strain , being grown in Britain for the first time this year . |
| 7 | But what is it like to face Immigration Officers when you come to Britain for the first time , not knowing the language , uncertain about the future ? |
| 8 | Genzyme announced last week that Ceredase , its drug for Gaucher disease , is being used in Britain for the first time in 10 patients seriously ill with the rare and potentially fatal inherited disease . |
| 9 | Germany outstripped Britain for the first time as the largest contributor last year . |
| 10 | TOUGH Belfast-style stop and search tactics are to be used across Britain for the first time to combat IRA bombers . |
| 11 | Michael Roberts rode six winners in a day in Britain for the first time on Saturday . |
| 12 | The M6 crosses on the Thornbridge Viaduct , a viaduct which has been extensively repaired last year using a very powerful water lance to cut out deteriorated concrete , a German tool being used in Britain for the first time . |
| 13 | This month she is visiting Britain for the first time in years . |
| 14 | The 1851 census revealed that in Britain for the first time more people lived in towns than in the country and that trend continued . |
| 15 | ‘ There was nothing confidential about it : it was a bright idea some Americans had for setting up training courses — that sort of thing — for their businessmen and other people coming over to Britain for the first time . |
| 16 | American B-Fifty Two bombers have returned to Britain for the first time since the Gulf War . |
| 17 | Celtic 's defeat of Inter Milan in nineteen sixty seven brought the European cup to Britain for the first time . |
| 18 | George — who is shopping around Ireland and Britain for the best op prices — said : ‘ The minimum is £8,000 . |
| 19 | No one can be in any doubt now that she was pulling the strings behind the royal side show that has preoccupied Britain for the past six months . |
| 20 | This mower which has been on sale in Britain for the past 3 years is potentially deadly . |
| 21 | And already it holds the record in Britain for the inland stretch of water with the highest number of bird species in winter . |
| 22 | When Soviet troops invaded Finland in November 1939 , for instance , there was widespread sympathy in Britain for the latest victims of aggression ; but D. N. Pritt , although a member of the Labour Party National Executive , attempted to justify the role of the Russians . |
| 23 | Engel is German by birth but has lived in Britain for the last 20 years , and this mixed background has been reflected not only in Melancholia 's plot but in its production history , as it has been co-financed by the British Film Institute and the Hamburg company Lichtblick . |
| 24 | Now every opinion poll in er Britain for the last twenty two years has said that they believe that has shown that the people believe that the troops should not be in Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | In Britain for the foreseeable future the ultimate purchaser of 80% or more of health care will continue to be the Treasury . |
| 26 | In fact , the 1959 Act has worked to secure a very large measure of freedom in Britain for the written word . |
| 27 | A ‘ European ’ car , for instance , would be designed and built in Britain for the local mass market , but also exported as a niche product to Japan and America . |
| 28 | And Mr Ashdown has been projected in photo opportunities across Britain as the best leader the country will never have . |
| 29 | He saw the attachment to the Middle East by Britain as ‘ sentimental ’ , and wanted to redefine Britain as the easterly extension of a strategic area based in the USA , rather than a power looking eastwards through the Mediterranean to India and beyond . |
| 30 | President Izetbegovic , addressing a news conference later at the Dorchester Hotel , described Britain as the western country most opposed to lifting the arms embargo . |