Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the british " in BNC.
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| 31 | A landfill tax may encourage recycling , but not necessarily : a study for the British government by Coopers & Lybrand , a consultancy , recently argued that the main effect of a levy would be to encourage incineration . |
| 32 | Toronto-based CAE Industries Ltd reports that its CAE-Link Corp unit has won a contract from the UK Ministry of Defence for a higher formation battle trainer for the British Army : terms were not disclosed , but CAE-Link will develop , install and maintain a command-and-control trainer to simulate a round-the-clock battle in real time for up to six weeks , creating the battlefield communications flow between the staff being trained , higher headquarters and subordinate unit headquarters ; it will consist of a central server networked to 170 controller and operator stations at two sites in the UK and Germany ; it has to be transportable for use at other training sites . |
| 33 | But if sound set back filmmaking style by several years , it offered a great boom for the British film industry . |
| 34 | Mr Mike Hammond won the Duchess of York Trophy for the British Disabled Overall Champion ; Corporal Craig Bonnington won the Zach Freeth Giant Slalom Trophy ; and the Hill Samuel Trophy for the best British newcomer went to Captain Jonathan Stichbury . |
| 35 | The Government provide grant in aid for the British Academy to support postgraduate research in the humanities and social sciences . |
| 36 | It would also help me to get a work permit for the British League next year . |
| 37 | The edition of 1903 contained an article , ‘ An Ideal Warship for the British Navy ’ by Vittorio Cuniberti , which foreshadowed the main features of the ‘ Dreadnought ’ class of battleships . |
| 38 | Those people who have the record sheets from last week , ten , ten people that are doing work for the British National Corpus . |
| 39 | Our orders of battle for the British forces of all three services currently deployed in the Gulf are the work of Michael Cox , a specialist compiler of ‘ orbats ’ of many periods . |
| 40 | Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig 's plan for the British attack in Flanders was to break through the German line from the Ypres salient and then encircle the German right flank resting on the North Sea coast . |
| 41 | Mister C is something of a godsend for the British press . |
| 42 | This was because Oxford was a good place to be born during World War II : The Germans had an agreement that they would not bomb Oxford and Cambridge , in return for the British not bombing Heidelberg and Göttingen . |
| 43 | The British High Performance Horse Sale will also be staged on 1st November in adjacent buildings and these two events will provide a unique focus for the British horse industry . |
| 44 | There is little to be seen of the former docks now , only depressions marked with stakes identifying the site , but the village remains , where some of the master shipwrights lived who built Nelson 's favourite ship , HMS Agamemnon , as well as many other men o' war for the British fleet . |
| 45 | Following this the Colonel is to visit Dhekelia , where the two other subunits which form the other half of the battalion are providing security for the British Garvison . |
| 46 | The tramway remained in operation for forty years , during which time the Haytor quarries also supplied granite for the British Museum and many other famous buildings . |
| 47 | Despite an English-sounding name , he was born in central Europe and fought with distinction for the British in the Second World War . |
| 48 | This new hobby developed during an interesting period for the British press . |
| 49 | Labour showed some chagrin that the Tories had stolen a march on them by ending conscription , but even Aneurin Bevan , the shadow Foreign Secretary and a unilateralist at heart , accepted the need for the British nuclear deterrent , making his famous remark that to abandon it would ‘ send a British Foreign Secretary , whoever he may be , naked to the conference table ’ . |
| 50 | Eight men were to be charged the following March with conspiracy in Chicago , and it was to provide cause célèbre by proxy for the British radical movements . |
| 51 | However , Rotterdam , scene of the three fastest marathons , qualifies , as does Chicago , the venue for the British record of 2hrs 07mins 13secs by Steve Jones . |
| 52 | It is hard to say whether any conclusions may be draw for the British car industry by considering the car industries of other countries . |
| 53 | After a period of apparent — and perhaps misleading — political stability in the first twenty-five years following the Second World War , the 1970s seem to have marked some sort of turning-point for the British political system . |
| 54 | According to one source , it was an immensely slow and difficult process for the British and Nepalese project personnel to get the village panchayat ( village council ) to agree to communal efforts necessary for conservation , seed replication programmes , seedling nurseries , terrace improvements , terrace-back planting , woodfuel lot planting and stock improvement , because of the vissiparious effects of perceived ( and real ) different costs and benefits of various parts of the scheme . |
| 55 | and despite my inbuilt irreverence for all sacred stones of all establishment temples , I too had grown up with an aura of awe for the British and all things British , and London was meant to encompass represent and symbolize the best of the best of it all . |
| 56 | This shortfall arose partly because , even when difficulties could be foreseen , it was sensible to aim high and maintain manufacturers ' confidence in a sustained market growth , though , as we shall see , it also reflects a persistently poor record for the British power station construction industry on completion times . |
| 57 | Will the Secretary of State bat for the British coal industry in the way that the German Government bat for theirs ? |
| 58 | Would the sound of that diabolical symphonic flush carry that diabolical symphonic flush carry into the Abbey and create a major embarrassment for the British Monarchy ? |
| 59 | IT IS something of a public statement of Carter 's record company 's faith that they are prepared to spend £20,000 of unrecoupable readies on a major aerodynamic lig for the British press ( faith that is vindicated , one could argue , by the band 's confirmed Biggest Ever Hit ‘ The Only Living Boy In New Cross ’ — Number Eight last week and rising ) . |
| 60 | For the Paris 1925 exhibition , Bernard was technical director for the British government , but he achieved his greatest fame as consultant artistic director to the caterers J. Lyons & Co . |