Example sentences of "britain [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Category B covered those who had lived in Britain for some time and showed no obvious signs of hostility . |
| 2 | Now was the main race , a true International with 17 nations on the start line , something we have not seen in Britain for some time despite the fact that the entry was limited because of the following week 's World Sprint Championships which caused some potential entrants to opt out . |
| 3 | Contemporary with Watt was Gaspard Monge , who in 1795 published his Géométrie descriptive ; although this book was not directly influential in Britain for some time ( British engineers having little sympathy for abstract mathematics ) , it formed the basis for modern engineering drawing . |
| 4 | Unlike the work of finance or even the public sector , women have been influential in the presentation of the visual arts in Britain for some time , Sally Townsend talks to Annely Juda and Angela Flowers , two women who started in the gallery business with young children , whose lives came together briefly when they ran galleries next door to each other , two women who , together with their sons , help to shape work on show in central London |
| 5 | In both the United States and Great Britain during this time the New Right provided its own answer to the problem of bureaucratic responsiveness , or lack of it — the market . |
| 6 | Britain at that time , like much of the European continent — including Italy — was ruled by strong personalities in small units , sometimes called ‘ Kingdoms ’ , and invasions from other countries sometimes led to settlement . |
| 7 | Whereas things appeared stable in Britain at that time , overseas there existed events of change — in Italy there existed no unity and much of the land was occupied by the forces of Austria , but they were removed and in 1833 , a united Italy was advocated under Papal rule , but that proved not to be successful and it would be some years before Garibaldi was able to form the Italian National Association for the Unification of Italy which only achieved its objective in 1871 . |
| 8 | The vital question facing the union was precisely the vital question facing Britain at that time ; it was the time to make a choice . |
| 9 | She was said to be the most handicapped person in Britain at that time , since , due to a rare muscular disease , she was paralysed throughout her whole body except in her big toe . |
| 10 | But my father went to America just after the war , and when he came back on the Queen Mary , he brought my mother some nylons , which were not obtainable in Britain at that time . |
| 11 | The most successful group in Britain at this time was Frankie Goes To Hollywood whose career was manufactured for them . |
| 12 | Perhaps it did n't affect Britain at this time . |
| 13 | The event which affected Britain at this time was the fall from power of Magnentius . |
| 14 | He was also aware that homosexuals in Britain at this time not only lived under the threat of illegality but were also regarded by many as deeply offensive . |
| 15 | Two main points about Britain at this time : the science unions were putting pressure on the government to shift economic policies from an industrial to a scientific base , and the health service was on the point of collapse . |
| 16 | Furthermore , training schemes do not produce the skills or the qualifications for the jobs that are needed in Britain at this time . |
| 17 | A major issue to be explored is why social disruption failed to stimulate unrest in lowland Scotland unlike other areas of Britain at this time . |
| 18 | Accreditation was not a concept that had gained currency in Britain at this time , and in developments over the next few years it was to receive a variety of interpretations in British further and higher education . |
| 19 | Although anti-nuclear protests were gathering strength in Britain at this time , the Labour front-bench in Parliament was strengthened by the switch of the charismatic Aneurin Bevan from unilateral nuclear disarmament to the view that the British bomb would enhance national influence in any disarmament talks . |
| 20 | Despite a £750,000 Government campaign , only 31,942 overseas residents have taken advantage of legislation giving the vote to expatriates who have lived in Britain at any time during the past 20 years . |
| 21 | Minsmere gives a chance of one of the most varied day 's birdwatching in Britain at any time of the year , with many exciting birds at very close range . |