Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] the british " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only English-educated politicians participated in the legislative institutions through which the British devolved political power in the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 2 | It served , however only to churn up the sodden land , whose drainage system had long since been destroyed by years of artillery fire , into a vast morass of craters filled with water , through which the British were expected to advance . |
| 3 | The Jubilee Day display demonstrates all the meticulous organization and mastery of pageantry for which the British have become renowned . |
| 4 | The treaty provides for the possibility that member states will wish to adopt a single currency later this decade , but they can do so only if they meet strict convergence conditions — conditions for which the British Government have pressed from the outset . |
| 5 | Other member states bypassed us on the single currency by giving us an opt-out , for which the Prime Minister had to pay at Maastricht — and for which the British people will have to pay even more in the months ahead — and they bypassed us on the social chapter by simply going ahead without us . |
| 6 | The actual handing over of power in Delhi was accomplished amid scenes of tremendous enthusiasm , of which the British found themselves , to their delight and astonishment , to some extent the objects . |
| 7 | One was a tripod-mounted , water-cooled gun with a belt feed containing 250 rounds , of which the British Vickers and German and Russian Maxim were examples . |
| 8 | Gender is a key source of variation as is ethnicity , which cross-cuts gender because ideas about men 's and women 's roles in the family do vary among the ethnically diverse groups of which the British population is now composed ( Anthias and Yuval-Davies , 1983 ) . |
| 9 | Indeed , Ramsay 's secret societies , the Nordic League and the Right Club , were so easily penetrated by intelligence agents , and the government has now released some of this material , that when this information is checked against independent sources it becomes possible to present a plausible account of what the British fascists were up to during 1939 and 1940 . |
| 10 | How will that square at the environment conference at Rio de Janeiro as an example of what the British do to try to save the rain forest ? |
| 11 | We can only conclude that it was chiefly in the enthusiasm with which the British talked about it all . |
| 12 | Our story begins in India , where in 1885 what was arguably the only significant nationalist organization with which the British ever had to contend , the Indian National Congress , was founded by — an Englishman . |
| 13 | The country was sliding into chaos , or as the British official historian puts it , there was a vacuum ‘ into which the British military authorities were quickly sucked ’ . |
| 14 | The question of spare land is the subject of a study by the British Library Board into what the British library 's needs will be after the new St. Pancras building has been opened in 1996 and how needs may be satisfied . |
| 15 | Early in 1831 he began transplanting mature trees , becoming expert in their removal ; he described his techniques in his The British Winter Garden ( 1852 ) . |
| 16 | But it has obviously been forgotten that a near-similar system was in place almost exactly a century ago — the submarine cable system , a communicative technique in which the British were supreme . |
| 17 | There are indeed whole areas in which the British Library has patchy holdings . |
| 18 | Before that sanguinary campaign , in which the British lost some 450,000 men for an advance nowhere more than 8km/5mls , volunteers had poured in their hundreds of thousands to the recruiting offices . |
| 19 | This might suggest that France won the War of the Spanish Succession but nobody in Britain and not many people in France saw the result this way ; it was regarded more as a struggle in which the British asserted themselves militarily on the continent of Europe and began to show signs of a policy of taking over the smaller colonies of other European powers by conquest . |
| 20 | Legislation had been passed , at the height of the bubble , to stop the creation of new joint-stock companies , which ruled out one of the ways in which the British had organized their expansion overseas , Walpole , the Prime Minister who picked up the pieces after the collapse , was first of all concerned to make sure that the King and his government did not run into any more trouble , which meant a programme of no new taxes , no wars , no new assertion of authority , and much less expansion than either before or after . |
| 21 | This was not a period in which the British suffered defeats gladly , however much their lack of preparation in peacetime might seem to invite them . |
| 22 | More generally , his theory provides us with a remarkable insight into the nature of the British constitution ; the entire thrust of Oakeshott 's work can be interpreted as laying down a view of the world in which the British constitution with its conventions , understandings , and practices which have evolved through a slow historical process actually makes sense . |
| 23 | The other part of the gallery traces the development of the three great religions of India Buddhism , Hinduism and Jainism largely through sculpture , in which the British Museum is particularly strong . |
| 24 | So far , there has been no review of the way in which the British procedures operate and what the consequences are should a pupil be wrongly failed at a particular level which employers may come to accept as appropriate for some jobs . |
| 25 | The Syrian foreign minister who , after meeting Douglas Hurd , evoked the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 in which the British and the French secretly carved up the Middle East between them ( later using the League of Nations to give them the so-called Mandates as a cover ) , was not making some arcane and irrelevant allusion . |
| 26 | Much of this work will be discussed in Chapter 8 when we will be dealing with the way in which the British state has handled the economy . |
| 27 | His decisions and negotiations with the government shaped the manner in which the British Crown extended its control over both the Company and its Indian possessions , a process which culminated in the passing of the Regulating Act of 1773 . |
| 28 | It has a brief dubbed ‘ The Sale of the Century ’ , in which the British Government is one of the major investors . |
| 29 | That is in areas in which the British Government have an environmental programme in conjunction with the Brazilian authorities . |
| 30 | 4 the ways in which the British aid-giving bodies view and assess the aid project . |