Example sentences of "britain is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain is fast becoming a sweatshop economy based on cheap labour and no investment and the Tories have proved it . |
| 2 | Compared with other large industrialized ( and some developing ) nations , Britain is notably lacking in natural resources . |
| 3 | This partly reflects the fact that strikes are a dramatic form of conflict ( or at least they can be portrayed as dramatic events ) , and partly it reflects the fact that public opinion in Britain is firmly fixed upon strikes . |
| 4 | Tin is the only member of the metals loosely bracketed in the ‘ strategic ’ category in which Britain is even approaching self sufficiency . |
| 5 | She was a founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768 , and in Britain is generally associated in the popular mind with Robert Adam 's decorative schemes . |
| 6 | Similarly , the notion of fostering a local enterprise culture has been suggested both inside and outside Parliament ( Trippier , 1989 ) as a potential source of urban renewal and in Britain is officially inscribed as a goal of all Inner City Task Forces . |
| 7 | Australia 's natural partners are the booming south-east Asian economies while Britain is heavily occupied with matters European . |
| 8 | Local authority testing in Britain is rarely used for accountability purposes . |
| 9 | The Ordnance Survey of Great Britain is also providing a limited amount of digital map data and DEMs . |
| 10 | Attention is focused on Scotland but evidence from the rest of Britain is also included . |
| 11 | Finally , despite all the pejorative remarks and many statements along the lines of ‘ I personally do not think very highly of headhunters ’ , most accept fully that the headhunting business in Britain is here to stay . |
| 12 | The dreadful effects of this on the wealthy landowners and merchants of Britain is well documented by Ammianus Marcellinus , and have been the subject of a recent study . |
| 13 | Britain is well placed with reserves of coal , oil and gas which must be husbanded in a national energy policy to balance the needs of the present with those of the future . |
| 14 | The report states that Britain is well equipped in terms of research and development to meet the opportunities but " the country 's manufacturers appears incapable of supporting the development of new ideas and their translation into new products on the strength of home markets " . |
| 15 | A Meetings Industry association poll confirmed fears that Britain is increasingly losing conference business to Europe . |
| 16 | Most of lowland Britain is intensively cultivated ; upland areas tend to be used for sheep farming and/or for game ( grouse , deer etc. ) as well as for other recreational activities . |
| 17 | Britain is widely regarded as having a political system which scores high on political institutionalization and low on personal leadership . |
| 18 | As he knows that the Syrians spent the money that they received for their support during the Gulf war on sophisticated missiles from North Korea — all of which are pointing towards Israel — can he reassure the House that Britain is not getting involved in that arms process ? |
| 19 | Britain is not enjoying its presidency of the European Council . |
| 20 | Britain is not going to let itself be rushed into any costly action , that would have little chance of success , to solve the problem of ‘ acid rain ’ … |
| 21 | At Maastricht , Robertson argues , John Major has ‘ got to nobble that man Mitterrand ’ and inform him bluntly that Britain is not going the sign the treaty as it stands , and that she is fully prepared to take the political consequences , both in Europe and domestically . |
| 22 | More immediately , community care policies must be implemented with much greater vigour and political backing if Britain is not to face a " crisis of caring " in the twenty-first century . |
| 23 | Britain is not giving a penny , not even a penny black ! |
| 24 | If Britain is not to end up in a technological cul-de-sac , with a technical solution to managing nuclear waste confronted by massive political opposition , it must tackle a number of problems . |
| 25 | Because Great Britain is not to produce coal nor have any significant mining industry . |
| 26 | If all the claims of timber merchants and suppliers are to be believed , most tropical timber sold in Britain is already produced on a sustainable basis . |
| 27 | Just as America has diverse regional economies , so Britain is best seen as a series of distinct local markets . |
| 28 | Education in Britain is best seen in pyramidal terms . |
| 29 | Flu vaccine ‘ take-up ’ in Britain is low compared with other EC countries . |
| 30 | Much of Britain is densely populated and intensively farmed , and there is a long history of metal mining and movement of minerals and metals . |