Example sentences of "britain [verb] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain has ratified the Maastricht Treaty just hours after Lord Rees-Mogg withdrew his legal challenge in the light of the turmoil on the European money markets . |
| 2 | It may be that Britain has overemphasised the potential benefits of free trade ; that she has actually benefited from the protectionist philosophy which permeates the EEC ; that being a member of a cohesive new power bloc is what has counted ; that the ‘ fight ’ with the Americans over agricultural matters is a case in point ; that had she been on her own , Britain would have been trampled over by her cousins on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 3 | Britain has led the world in helping the reforms in the former Soviet Union . |
| 4 | Britain has led the way in building up relations with the republics of the new Commonwealth of Independent States . |
| 5 | Lord Young declined to comment on the revelations contained in the memorandum or the confirmation by Sir Peter Gregson , permanent secretary at the DTI , that Britain has kept the deal secret because ‘ it would severely damage our relations with the European Commission ’ . |
| 6 | Does the recent rash of serious accidents affecting people jammed together in small spaces mean that Britain has become the glass jaw , as well as , allegedly , the dirty man of Europe ? |
| 7 | BRITAIN has become the ‘ dustbin of the world ’ and the ‘ environmental leper ’ of Europe , John Prescott told delegates . |
| 8 | While Britain has borne the brunt of the economic crisis , Northern Ireland has been cushioned from the worst effects . |
| 9 | Britain has chosen the second option . |
| 10 | Britain has spent the last 100 years fighting against the facts of German power : indeed our modern national identity has to a great extent been forged in the fires of the great conflict with Germany while our sense of our moral worth rests in part on our role in the defeat of Nazism . |
| 11 | Britain has attracted the biggest concentration of investment from Japan , and the Japanese feel comfortable with the Conservatives , even if they reserve their deepest admiration for Mrs Thatcher . |
| 12 | Britain has signed the European Convention on the Environment , promising our best efforts to limit and reduce emissions , and to exchange information in collaborative work . |
| 13 | The work of Kempe in the United States and of the NSPCC in Britain has shown the extent to which therapy can be provided in such cases for both parent and child . |
| 14 | Britain has set the European Community on a course that I wholly applaud — an ever closer union of nation states . |
| 15 | It seems that scarcely one Black artist in Britain has had the benefits of an extended professional career : a dealer , regular exhibitions , interested critics , sales and the support of one 's peers . |
| 16 | Scandinavia was , after all , not a very important trading partner now Britain had joined the EC . |
| 17 | But its existence meant that Britain had joined the other major states of Europe in providing herself with a minister and an administrative machine designed to conduct and control foreign policy . |
| 18 | Chancellor John Major told the Commons Britain had joined the E M S as the time was right . |
| 19 | While Britain had given the United States wholehearted support in Korea , she had also shown her independence by what the Americans saw as over-precipitate recognition of Communist China , and by Attlee 's personal efforts to dissuade Truman from extending the war to mainland China and from using atomic bombs to settle the conflict . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ If you look at the lack of immigration control in the past , then yes , in the Fifties , Sixties and Seventies Britain had become the dustbin of the world . ’ |
| 21 | Britain had become the most urbanized nation in the world by the late nineteenth century , and has probably remained so ever since . |
| 22 | Before Tiananmen , Britain had ducked the question by professing to believe that most Hong Kong people cared little about politics , and that those who did favoured little or no change . |
| 23 | at that meeting Britain had provided the winner for the 60 metres in Barrie Kelly . |
| 24 | During the war Britain had provided the European lead and because of its wartime role was believed to have the reasons and the opportunity to effect some kind of unity . |
| 25 | In a comprehensive critique of the Government 's record , FoE says the claim made by Mr Nicholas Ridley as Environment Secretary that ‘ Britain had taken the lead ’ on environmental issues was absurd . |
| 26 | The prince stressed that Britain had produced the world 's most successful language but , as its use in the media and theatres showed , it had become impoverished , sloppy and limited . |
| 27 | The prince stressed that Britain had produced the world 's most successful language but as its use in the media and theatres showed , it had become impoverished , sloppy and limited . |
| 28 | In 1954 Britain had fostered the Baghdad Pact to create a band of friendly pro-Western states against the Soviet threat . |
| 29 | Handing the credit to Margaret Thatcher , he said Britain had put the single market at the top of the EC agenda and put the torch to ‘ a veritable bonfire of petty obstacles and niggling controls ’ . |
| 30 | In recent years , more than 11 million smokers in Britain have kicked the habit . |