Example sentences of "[vb past] by the british " in BNC.
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| 1 | A successful museum bid was the £38,000 ( $60,800 ) paid by the British Museum for the Bowleaze jewel ( lot 19 ) , a late ninth-century Anglo-Saxon gold jewel of the same type as the Minster Lovell and Alfred Jewels in the Ashmolean Museum . |
| 2 | The Swedish vibrator , wrist-worn , was the first purpose-designed instrument which became generally available in UK followed by the British vibro-tactile instruments which are now available in this country . |
| 3 | And an Iraqi airways jumbo chartered by the British Embassy is expected to fly the three hundred and six people who are already here in the Iraqi capital , to Jordan . |
| 4 | After all , Great-Grandmother swore by the British , or the English , angrez , as she called them . |
| 5 | An example of the kind of popular song Adorno had in mind — though no doubt he thought of his argument as applying to all kinds — is ‘ Down Mexico Way ’ , a 1939 hit by the British song-writing team of Michael Carr and Jimmy Kennedy . |
| 6 | When William Joyce ( ‘ Lord Haw-Haw ’ ) began his revulsion felt by the British public , if the reaction was not mirthful , was due to the fact that he was , in a sense , a stranger to them by reason of his apostasy and unnatural situation and therefore he carried far less conviction than a less articulate but sincere German would have done . |
| 7 | The same insistence upon a curriculum which goes beyond a narrow conception of role initiation may be found even in North America , where trade union traditions are relatively apolitical but not all union education is as blinkered as that offered by the British TUC . |
| 8 | One does not hope to see Les Peard around in the same way as the name of Winston Jones vanished after he handed Scotland their 1984 Grand Slam on a plate , aided and abetted by the British press and its tirade against French forward play . |
| 9 | Books and journal articles can be obtained through the national inter–lending service co–ordinated by the British Library . |
| 10 | She waved to well-wishers at Sadler 's Wells in London where she watched Carmen performed by the British Youth Opera of which she is patron . |
| 11 | The most recent survey was that organised by the British Trust for Ornithology in 1955 , which recorded c. 100 pairs ; des Forges and Harber considered this to be an underestimate . |
| 12 | The exhibition has been selected by the curator of the Henry Moore Foundation , David Mitchinson and the majority of works are borrowed from that institution , with others lent by the British Council and Leeds City Art Gallery . |