Example sentences of "of british [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On September 8 last year he was one of a number of British citizens detained by the Abu Dhabi authorities . |
| 2 | Anne Lennox and Liz Weeks told how the new crisis has ‘ opened old wounds ’ and said : ‘ We would n't want families of British servicemen to go through the pain we had to endure . ’ |
| 3 | The small party of British players competing in the Veteran 's World Championships in Perth at the end of April achieved greater successes overall than in previous years . |
| 4 | The families of British soldiers killed by the American airforce in the Gulf War have won the first stage of their bid to find out what really happened . |
| 5 | Some of the options for the future of British Rail outlined in the 1983 Serpell Report would , if adopted , leave the network effectively only inter-main-cities , and would make the decline of rural railways almost complete . |
| 6 | You will discover many more places to watch birds , as well as much more about the fascinating world of bird life , in The Complete Book of British Birds published by the RSPB and AA . |
| 7 | Anti-Tito Yugoslavs : after a paragraph describing the evacuation of British PoWs found in the Klagenfurt area , Macmillan concludes his catalogue of 5 Corps ' problems with this paragraph : |
| 8 | In British public schools , for instance , not only are the majority of pupils deliberately drawn from that small section of British society committed to the standards which the public school promotes , but teaching staff are similarly rigorously selected , not merely on the basis of academic competence , but also on the basis of the extent to which they have successfully internalised the standards they are expected to foster among their pupils . |
| 9 | It is argued that specific policies implemented at the outset of British rule led to the development of a judicial system which did not coincide with either British or indigenous notions of justice but which was none the less compatible with local culture . |
| 10 | The Commission argued that , even if the requirements in question formally applied in the same way to nationals of the host state , in reality they were discriminatory in terms of both their purpose and their effects , since the overwhelming majority of British nationals involved in the fishing industry were likely to fulfil the residence requirement . |
| 11 | The profits of British Airways plunged for the year ending in March . |
| 12 | Patrick glanced out the window and caught sight of a troop of British tommies marching around the Green towards them , on the opposite side of the road . |
| 13 | The loss of British merchant shipping in the north Atlantic had always been very troublesome but in March of 1943 , the worst monthly loss was recorded , fortunately gradually improving from thereon . |
| 14 | The future of British Coal depends on the results of the next general election in a few months ' time , and I do not think that any hon. Member or the Minister would refute that . |
| 15 | Obviously we will be guided by our consultants but this er er view of is er er meeting with er er great success in the villages because obviously er we feel that if there is a public inquiry then we stand a better chance of British Coal sticking to the promises made when they had the original planning application and removing all waste by train to suitable sites and there 's one at Welbeck which is waiting for the material . |
| 16 | THE FINAL stage of television 's take-over of British politics opens in the shadow of a paradox . |