Example sentences of "britain have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain has been subject to the same decline in long-stay beds and has responded in the same way as other European countries to this fall in the mental hospital population . |
| 2 | This legislation ensured that the whole of Britain has been subject to compulsory land planning based on the application of two simple practices : the preparation ( including revision and updating ) of plans for the future allocation of land uses , and the control of development to accord with the provisions of those plans . |
| 3 | Whilst other nations wrestle with the complex problems of a modern democracy , the questions of press ownership , the funding of political parties , wire-tapping , privacy , freedom of information , the control of the security services , and so on , Britain has been content either to stand aside altogether or to legislate for continuing trust and deference . |
| 4 | The process of acceptance of shared space in Britain has been one of an incremental shift in engineering design , with the aims of building safe housing areas remaining intact but with methods altered . |
| 5 | Yet , Britain has been fortunate in benefiting from a healthy , successful and much envied system of broadcasting . |
| 6 | At this stage an author who is arguing that the study of social policy in Britain has been strong on criticism and value judgement but weak on analysis should make his own position very clear . |
| 7 | But , despite the potential , Britain has been tentative in expanding hospital services into the home , although the distress caused to children who spend long periods in hospital has led to some developments in acute paediatric care at home . |
| 8 | For most of this century Britain has been obsessed with the idea of holding the price of its currency above its natural value . |
| 9 | So Britain has been stuck with trust-me pragmatism . |
| 10 | On the whole , especially at local level , the Left in Britain has been more goal orientated than the Right . |
| 11 | So far , Britain has been slow to implement a nationwide recycling programme which will take into account all possible methods of re-using raw materials . |
| 12 | Such lack of fundamental change is perhaps understandable because , since the eighteenth century , the rate of economic growth in Britain has been slow , a rate which influenced and was influenced by the nature of the institutional and social system . |
| 13 | As in other aspects of economic policy , Mrs Thatcher 's government in Britain has been eager to follow the American example . |
| 14 | Britain has been responsible for 52 per cent of all inventions worldwide in the past 30 years , according to a survey conducted by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry . |
| 15 | Britain has been concerned at Libyan attempts to put pressure on foreign governments by refusing exit visas . |
| 16 | Hitherto , marriage in Britain had been late ( average age at first marriage about 25 for women , 28 for men ) . |
| 17 | Britain had been content with the intergovernmental structure of OEEC . |
| 18 | The recent ancestors of those who ruled Britain had been innovative , adventurous , intelligent , sometimes radical , always thrusting . |
| 19 | The British had been taken to the cleaners because foolish politicians in post-war Britain had elected to produce sociologists instead of engineers , and the predictable end result was that Britain had been short on wealth creators and long on spenders . |
| 20 | Several states might have been willing to follow the Six in their ventures if Britain had been willing to join . |
| 21 | Britain had been unable to protect Czechoslovakia or Poland in 1938–39 , and every month before a possible invasion meant more aircraft , guns and ships . |
| 22 | He promised the Turks assistance not because he wished to establish a protectorate over them , but because he wanted their regime to survive and Britain had been unable to assist them . |
| 23 | She says the profit margins in Britain have been higher than abroad and its a good thing that prices are now falling , although it will mean some of the ’ luxury ’ element is lost . |
| 24 | Aggregated tables from the Census of Great Britain have been available since the 1966 Sample Census . |