Example sentences of "[adv prt] british " in BNC.
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| 1 | National Grid , a company jointly owned by the 12 regional electricity companies of England and Wales , was granted a licence to take on British Telecom and Mercury . |
| 2 | The photographs in the Leica were the only pictures of the flier that were ever taken on British soil . |
| 3 | Used for 30 years on British potatoes , tecnazene is now under investigation by the Governments ' Advisory Committee on Medicines for its possible impact on aquatic and human life . |
| 4 | He has already achieved electoral reform , and now wants the process to continue along British lines . |
| 5 | A win over British No. 17 , Katie Ricket in a ratings tournament at Alfreton in May , confirmed her rapid progress . |
| 6 | This is similar to GEC 's arguments for taking over Plessey and BA 's arguments for taking over British Caledonian . |
| 7 | Jimmy Knapp , general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen , predicted that the Government 's scheme for selling off British Rail would help to guarantee the defeat of the Tories at the next election . |
| 8 | ‘ Interest rates twice as high as those of our competitors choke off British investment . |
| 9 | Revelations in February 1986 that the government was prepared to sell off British Leyland and Austin-Rover to American-owned companies provoked opposition from Conservative MPs in the affected constituencies which killed the proposals . |
| 10 | From this side of the Atlantic , the pointless remake of Wuthering Heights looks like a deliberate attempt to finish off British film ( crap dialogue , laughable Barnsley-by-the-Seine accent from Juliette Binoche and Sinéad O'Connor as Emily Brönte ) . |
| 11 | How long will the country continue to lose jobs and to lose access to the great national asset of our coal , given that the Government want to sell off British Coal overnight at a cheap price , for the benefit of the Treasury ? |
| 12 | Since Margaret Thatcher began the privatisation fever by selling off British Aerospace in 1981 , the Government has privatised almost 50 companies . |
| 13 | Monocultures " kill off British birdlife " |
| 14 | Even G. D. H. Cole , far more critical of the Communists than Strachey , could not see " any sharp line which marks off British Communists from other British Socialists " . |
| 15 | Part of the reason Pearce decided to accept the request to head up British Aerospace was that he had been thirty-five years with Esso , eight as chairman . |
| 16 | Although he had helped to set up British Aerospace as a nationalised company , he was convinced it could not take on the huge rival plane-makers in the United States unless it was unfettered from government control . |
| 17 | Henry Cotton , who won the Open in 1934 and 1937 and then again in 1948 kept up British hopes . |
| 18 | ( It will also have been a waste if the outcome is only to soften up British buyers for Japanese companies to rush in and sell us microcomputers as they have previously sold us domestic electronic equipment . ) |
| 19 | The Tories may have shaken up British Telecom because they dislike a state-run monopoly that seems to care more for itself than its customers ; but the main impact on BT has little to do with monopolies or state ownership . |
| 20 | The possibility of breaking up British Gas into competing units was also successfully opposed by Sir Denis , who argued that it was impossible to achieve competition in a natural monopoly . |
| 21 | Up till 1914 Norwegian shipowners were still making money by buying up British sailing ships and running them with windmill pumps . |
| 22 | Indeed , the continued dominance of Oxford , Cambridge and the top public schools severely weakens the claim that educational reform has opened up British society . |
| 23 | They are about to re-mug yet again by breaking up British Gas and I 'm sure they 'll break up every other utility they can . |
| 24 | Last week , the Liberal Democrats published proposals for breaking up British Telecom into a number of components to provide effective and proper competition , and create regional corporate headquarters of benefit to our regions , which find that massive monopolies concentrate their headquarters elsewhere in the country — by definition , in one place . |
| 25 | Jacobs gives up British title |
| 26 | I ca n't really ring up British Coal to say what about wooden , Woodstow my friends . |
| 27 | AN IDEA for transmitting signals through the mains wiring has been traced back to 1897 , when Joseph Routin and C. E. L. Brown of Zurich , Switzerland , took out British Patent number 24833 . |
| 28 | Dishing out British Government aid , what a cop-out . |
| 29 | If only we could get Branson , right , to sort out British Rail . |
| 30 | Amnesty 's ‘ own country ’ principle of impartiality rules out British members campaigning on Vic Williams behalf . |