Example sentences of "britain 's [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be hoped that in the 1990s the nature of the modern business cycle is different from what it was in the 1920s and that the long-term devastation caused by Britain 's return to the Gold Standard will not be repeated . |
| 2 | She is expected to place great emphasis on Britain 's contribution to controlling the hole in the ozone layer and global warming . |
| 3 | Top of the agenda will be the same issue over which Mrs Thatcher fought countless battles : Britain 's contribution to the budget . |
| 4 | THE MAN responsible for Britain 's contribution to the Concorde programme is this country 's candidate for the top job at the European space Agency ( ESA ) , which becomes vacant in a year 's time . |
| 5 | One project being reconsidered in the wake of the prime minister 's conversion is Britain 's contribution to a European scientific space satellite . |
| 6 | A land where 17 per cent tax is put on fuel and dressed up as Britain 's contribution to ‘ green ’ objectives , where a national lottery is about to yield a 12 per cent rake-off for the Exchequer , where charities are booming , blessed with a Budget tax bonus of £30 million a year and where a job in future may actually mean ‘ community service ’ . |
| 7 | This is cold-blooded business indeed , just as was the Balfour Declaration of 1917 that gave Britain 's support to a Jewish homeland providing that ‘ nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine ’ . |
| 8 | Britain 's debt to Europe |
| 9 | The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee , Mr Claiborne Pell , called the expulsion a ‘ disgrace ’ and compared it to Britain 's decision to forcibly return Cossacks to Stalin 's Russia after the second world war . |
| 10 | The French smoothed Britain 's way to accepting the Exchange Rate Mechanism by announcing the dropping of exchange controls . |
| 11 | Britain 's attachment to her colonies , past and present , was far stronger than her recently acquired Brussels Treaty links with her historic rivals across the Channel . |
| 12 | Asked about Britain 's attitude to a longstanding US trade embargo against Cuba , which the Cuban government says hinders trade and investment from other countries , Baroness Young said : |
| 13 | He declared : ‘ Under the Conservatives , Britain 's attitude to Europe has been confused , suspicious , reluctant and ambivalent . |
| 14 | The world has lost confidence in us and now doubts Britain 's ability to successfully deal with its economic problems — this at a time when we are major producers of oil ! |
| 15 | Lord Young sent to BAe a confidential Foreign Office memorandum of the talks between Sir David Hanney , Britain 's ambassador to the European Community , and Mr Peter Sutherland ( Sir Leon Brittan 's predecessor as competition commissioner ) on this point . |
| 16 | In Vienna , where the Duke had travelled as Britain 's ambassador to the Congress , society had greeted him with outrageous flattery , calling him ‘ le vainqueur du vainqueur du monde ’ , but Lucille guessed that Bonaparte might have other ideas of the Duke 's military stature . |
| 17 | On another occasion he publicly told the wife of Britain 's ambassador to France that she was ‘ not fit to be an ambassador 's wife ’ . |
| 18 | At the last , Britain 's ambassador to Constantinople abandoned the encouragement he had been giving the Turks and advised them to go on negotiating , but by this time neither Britain nor France was in a position to withdraw the backing which they had been giving the sultan . |
| 19 | Is it Brown or Heseltine who has written the following on competition policy ( clue : its was n't Brown ) : ‘ There is a need for a new sophistication in Britain 's approach to the ownership of her industrial assets if they are not to be acquired in growing numbers by our rivals as pieces of the game of restructuring European industry . ’ |
| 20 | The social provision that had been Britain 's thank-offering to an expectant postwar world after 1945 had left the problem of poverty , in some respects , remarkably and alarmingly unaffected . |
| 21 | The Festival also plays a role in the artistic renaissance of Birmingham , a profile confirmed by the continuing success of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra , under its Artistic Director , Simon Rattle , the recent move of both the Birmingham Royal Ballet ( formerly Sadler 's Wells Royal Ballet ) and the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company to Birmingham , the newly launched ‘ Towards The Millennium ’ annual arts Festival and the Arts Council of Great Britain 's invitation to Birmingham to launch Arts 2000 , as the UK City of Music in 1992 . |
| 22 | One of the MPs says any further reduction in spending would cut Britain 's defence to the bone . |
| 23 | Ours currently extol the virtues of Britain 's response to the French Revolution ( £5 ) , remind us of our traditional relationship with Russia ( £10 ) , the danger implicit in teenage romance ( £20 ) and the importance of our architectural heritage ( £50 ) . |
| 24 | For the Liberal Democrats , Lord Bonham Carter agreed that Britain 's response to events must not appear to threaten the security of the Soviet Union or attempt to dissolve the Warsaw Pact . |
| 25 | THE Chancellor mapped out yesterday what he hopes is Britain 's road to recovery , but signalled a rough ride ahead for five million of the lowest paid workers . |
| 26 | Britain 's road to recovery . |
| 27 | Neil Marten ( now Sir Neil Marten ) was an active local MP , and a Conservative who took a characteristically independent and critical line in the apparently endless debates about Britain 's entry to the Common Market . |
| 28 | Britain 's regulation to the bottom of the class was ‘ damaging the economy in the long-term ’ , they believed . |
| 29 | On the contrary , they saw the empire as the basis of Britain 's claim to world power status , and their commitment to exporting self-government — which they wrote about as if it were merely the current expression of the British administrative genius — was secondary to this . |
| 30 | As it was Britain 's shift to protectionism and Imperial Preference provoked much criticism from Washington . |