Example sentences of "britain [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another passage evocative of past attempts to play the race card , Mr Tebbit wrote that ‘ most people in Britain did not want to live in a multicultural , multiracial society , but it has been foisted on them ’ . |
| 2 | That this had always been in the interest of Great Britain did not alter the fact that such interventions had tended since 1815 to favour liberal and nationalist causes . |
| 3 | A survey in 1987 found that 52 per cent of the workforce in Britain did not undertake training . |
| 4 | Admittedly in public Harold Wilson did his best to argue that Britain did not possess an " independent " deterrent with his insistence that the British Polaris force was dependent on some American components and other assistance . |
| 5 | The conclusion can be drawn that Roman Britain did not attain the same degree of monetisation as the Mediterranean cities . |
| 6 | It may be a sign of the times , but Craig Innes ' switch to rugby league in Britain did not draw much newspaper comment in New Zealand . |
| 7 | The demonstration of discrimination at St George 's Hospital Medical School led to a flurry of reform , but a paper published in the BMJ in 1990 showed that doctors from ethnic minorities who had trained in Britain did not progress as fast in their career as native European doctors . |
| 8 | The railways in Britain did not take the lead in developing the suburbs . |
| 9 | These examples have their parallels in Europe ; Britain did not let television loose during the Falklands campaign . |
| 10 | Tony Benn , who Mr O'Neill recalled was a member of a Labour Cabinet committed to nuclear defence , insisted that Britain did not need nuclear weapons because there was no Soviet threat . |
| 11 | By contrast , Britain did not find much support across the OEEC for its proposal to exclude agriculture from the free trade area . |
| 12 | The basic contention of their paper was that if Britain did not dominate an area , the Russians would . |
| 13 | Britain did not have free speech because of the libel laws , he said . |
| 14 | But whereas the year before the absence of yellowing was proof that Britain did not have the same forest decline as in Europe , its discovery did not show that Britain did have the same forest decline . |
| 15 | But Britain did not have to be part of that unity ; it could only be associated with it . |
| 16 | Unlike the US and Russia , the Ministry said , Britain did not have large stocks of fissile material and British production would continue at a minimum level to satisfy the need for the deterrent and naval reactor requirements . |
| 17 | He claimed Britain did not have the balance right between doers and critics . |
| 18 | To their dismay , however Britain did not seize up without trains . |
| 19 | The United States had a strong direct interest in seeing that Britain did not try to solve its payments problems [ in ways which ] would have added to the burden on the United States . |
| 20 | Washington agreed that a military solution was not an attractive option , and recognized that Britain dared not risk the economic repercussions of a break with South Africa . |
| 21 | Many changes of government in Britain do not usher in a new set of policies in most departments . |
| 22 | ‘ Legislatures in France , Germany and Britain do not initiate legislation to any significant degree , they are peripherally involved in the budgetary process and party cohesion and institutional limitations serve to restrict the scope of powerful scrutiny of executive actions by the legislatures ’ ( Page 1985 , p. 89 ) . |
| 23 | Consequently , while local authorities in Britain do not have a ‘ general competence ’ to do whatever they wish in their local areas , the variation in functions and standards between one authority and another may be considerable — to an extent which seemingly belies the simplicity of lists of services such as those contained in Figures 8.4 and 8.5 . |
| 24 | Many members of the immigrant population in Britain do not subscribe to it , while current murmurs of homosexual " marriage " cast a new light even upon the heterosexual implications of this definition . |
| 25 | Save-a-Cup 's aim to ensure that the millions of cups used in offices throughout Britain do not harm the environment by being burned or dumped on landfill sites . |
| 26 | The possibility that it was industrialisation that destroyed the stable and peaceful life of pre-industrial Britain does not appear to hold up either . |
| 27 | Of course Parliament in Britain does not control monetary policy on a day-to-day basis , but at least the Chancellor can be called to account for his policies , and he and his government will be judged on their performance . |
| 28 | In international comparisons of working days lost Britain does not show up as particularly strike prone [ Smith , 1980 ] . |
| 29 | Britain does not have a national police force under the control and direction of a central government department , any such notion having been rejected by the Royal Commission on the Police in 1962 . |
| 30 | Britain does not have to rely solely on its own mines for some kinds of metals . |