Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] british [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Multico have taken on the British marketing rights for the Delta range of machinery . |
| 2 | Today Oxfordshire 's Steve Redgrave carries on the British rowing tradition . |
| 3 | They must be daft to take on the British Empire . |
| 4 | To push down the British price to that of the cheapest one quoted by any ‘ fly-by-night ’ would have a catastrophic effect on business worldwide . |
| 5 | This group , under the chairmanship of Dr Toni Eden , has been drafting standards for every service that is likely to be piped down a British cable system . |
| 6 | The ruling was said to be partly based on a case brought in a British court by a Maze prisoner who had alleged maltreatment by prison officers . |
| 7 | China , which takes over the British colony in 1997 , refuses to bless the undertaking — and thus open the way for private financing of part of it — until it has wrung several concessions from the British . |
| 8 | China , which takes over the British colony in 1997 , has flatly rejected two plans . |
| 9 | Perhaps even more importantly , the British government as now completing its announced intention to withdrew its troops from " east of Suez " and , together with the Americans , had quietly been encouragingly the Shah to take over the British role as the " Policeman of the Gulf . " |
| 10 | MOVE over The British Bulldog , Hitman Hart , Ultimate Warrior and the rest of the grunt and groan hulks … the Gladiators are on the march . |
| 11 | In the consultative document , the DTI proposes two courses of action : monitoring registration of branches at Companies House to ensure that the law is not abused by companies being incorporated in a lax jurisdiction to take over a British business ; or requiring branch accounts from overseas companies which conduct all or a substantial part of their business in Great Britain . |
| 12 | ‘ Pain in the housing market should finally kill off the British obsession with housing which has so distorted resource allocation in the last 25 years . |
| 13 | Earlier this year it was announced that the block contained an oilfield with recoverable reserves of 250 million to 500 million barrels of oil , putting it in the so-called ‘ elephant field ’ category and the largest oil find off the British coast for five years . |
| 14 | West Germany , in the event for the first time , bring four world champions to Hyde Park to take on a British team that has six silver and bronze medallists from the recent World Championships , as well as squads from Italy , the Soviet Union and France . |
| 15 | ‘ I want you to regard me not as the last Viceroy winding up the British Raj ’ , he told Nehru , ‘ but as the first to lead the way to the new India . ’ |
| 16 | Working in conjunction with the British Mountaineering Council and the Ramblers ' Association , COLA plans to set up the British Uplands Footpath Trust . |
| 17 | The decision of the Post Office to set up the British Broadcasting Company in 1922 as a co-operative of radio set manufacturers was an attempt to overcome a series of essentially technical and organizational problems : the need to satisfy set manufacturers by ensuring that all participated in the birth and development of broadcasting , the need to avoid chaos on the airwaves on the American scale , and the need to guarantee an efficient and satisfactory service to all listeners . |
| 18 | As none of the guests spoke Spanish ‘ I rang up the British Consul and asked for his help and he provided it . |
| 19 | Hence the simplest approach to the study of social policy is to describe the policies and institutions that together make up the British system of social services . |
| 20 | To Abbott and Hornsby were added the names of Captain Lawrence , with whom Wilson had been associated in the formation of the Certificated Officers ' Union , Maurice Darby , the originator of the first Glasgow branch who was alleged to have gone over to the Shipping Federation in 1890 , Robert Pleasance , former secretary of the Tower Hill branch who had been expelled from the union in the same year , and a Thomas Carey , an official of the NSFU discharged for unsatisfactory conduct in 1911 who , Wilson claimed , immediately became involved with the Federation and , while still in its pay , assisted Lewis in setting up the British Seafarers ' Union . |
| 21 | The National Consumer Council has called for industry and motorists to pay more towards the cost of cleaning up the British water supply . |
| 22 | Angol , whose sights are set on a tilt at the vacant WBO crown against Yuri Vaulin , recently gave up the British title but is still Commonwealth champion . |
| 23 | ‘ We are desperate to raise funds for research and are in the process of setting up the British Brain Tumour Association . |
| 24 | The Transport Act 1962 broke up the British Transport Commission established under the Transport Act 1947 . |
| 25 | The original nationalizing Act ( Transport Act 1947 ) had in fact set up the British Transport Commission , of which BR was only one part . |
| 26 | In Britain at about the same time another Gallup poll showed 30 per cent of the populace were in favour of giving up the British H-bomb . |
| 27 | Increasingly powerful transmitters , satellite relays , and cable systems have begun to open up the British electorate to a wider variety of broadcast news sources , while business mergers have effectively consolidated control of the press into a very few hands ( Newton , 1988a , p. 314 ; Negrine , 1989 , ch. 4 ) . |
| 28 | Many of these will be unleashed in Britain by Lynmart , a company headed by Mr Raggett , who worked closely with the Russians to set up the British Astronaut Project , JUNO . |
| 29 | I asked while cutting up a British Telecom van — rather niftily I thought . |
| 30 | 1968 : MCA sets up a British operation . |