Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [num ord] british " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are cordially invited to attend the fourth British Gas Annual General Meeting which will be held in the Arena at the national Exhibition Centre ( NEC ) , Birmingham on Thursday 9 August 1990 . |
| 2 | Setting up of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell had been agreed in October 1945 ; approval to build the first British atomic pile for the production of plutonium had been given in December ; the Chiefs of Staff had stated their requirement for a British manufactured atomic bomb in January 1946 ; William Penney ( later Sir William ) had begun to plan the Atomic Weapons Section of the Armaments Research Establishment , of which he was Director , in mid-1946 ; the Air Ministry placed its first requisition for an atomic bomb on the Ministry of Supply in August ; and Lord Portal , the wartime Chief of Air Staff , who had become Controller of Atomic Energy in the Ministry of Supply , sought a mandate from the Prime Minister to set atomic bomb development in train during the autumn of 1946 . |
| 3 | Throughout 1971 and 1972 he remained in Britain 's top three heavyweights , but was overlooked when the BBBC ordered a series of eliminators to decide the next British title challenger . |
| 4 | Despite being outnumbered , unaware of the enemy 's dispositions and ignorant of the terrain , Hamilton was ordered to make the first British landings on 25 April at the southern tip of the peninsula near Cape Helles , while Anzac troops went ashore about 24km/15mls farther up the Aegean coast near Gaba Tepe . |
| 5 | Oates went with Scott to make the first British depot . |
| 6 | What with one thing and another , it was left to Sir Geoffrey Howe to become the first British Foreign Secretary to visit all the countries of Eastern Europe . |
| 7 | In fact , Sandy Lyle had to emerge from a pack of players at Royal St Georges in 1985 to become the first British winner for years . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm on an unfinished mission — to become the first British heavyweight champion this century and bring those championship belts back to England , ’ he said . |
| 9 | An impressive 2-0 win over Everton left the watching Germans in no doubt that Leeds are in the mood to become the first British team to win a European tie from 3-0 down . |
| 10 | The bad weather has also forced Rebecca Stephens to delay her attempt to become the first British woman to climb Everest . |
| 11 | Kate and Tom Ballard will be four and six respectively by the time their mother , Alison Hargreaves , attempts to become the first British woman to ascend Everest ; by next August they should be used to life in the British Mount Everest Medical Expedition base camp . |
| 12 | Tom ( left ) will be six and Kate ( right ) four by the time next year when Alison , as part of the British Mount Everest Medical Expedition , attempts to become the first British woman to ascend Everest . |