Example sentences of "the british " in BNC.
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| 1 | AMNESTY Journal of the British Section of Amnesty International No 51 June/July 1991 |
| 2 | This pattern of human rights violations is described in a recent AI report , Indonesia : Continuing Human Rights Violations in Irian Jaya , available from the British Section office . |
| 3 | 30 years ago on Trinity Sunday , 28 May 1961 , the British Lawyer , Peter Beneson ( right ) started Amnesty International . |
| 4 | Please contact Noreen at the British Section with any possible offer . |
| 5 | At a meeting in February , the Ex-Services Group of the British Section of AI was officially launched . |
| 6 | If you have served in the armed forces and would be willing to assist in the work of this group , or if you can assist with contacts in ex-service organisations like the British Star Association , please write to : . |
| 7 | The Cold War was at its height when Peter Benenson , the British lawyer , founded Amnesty , and three decades later it is hard to believe that the Moscow AI Group finally has permission to become part of Soviet life . |
| 8 | The British Section refugee office has played a leading role in this area of work , processing some 4,000 cases since 1980 . |
| 9 | Of course , none of the work carried out by Amnesty could continue without money and it is in this respect that sections , particularly the larger sections like the British , have a vital role to play . |
| 10 | Professional fundraisers utilize the powerful medium of advertising in their national press , an advertisement issued by the British Section in autumn 1990 about Iraq 's treatment of Kurds and its human rights record over a decade , was the most successful advertisement ever run by the Section . |
| 11 | Add to this the monies raised by new members the length and breadth of the British Isles who contributed to the Section 's annual turnover of £2.25 million with their cultural events , sponsored walks and street collections . |
| 12 | He continues to serve a 14-year sentence because of reports he sent to the British Broadcasting Corporation and for ‘ possession of anti-government literature ’ . |
| 13 | Out of the list we have selected the following five cases for appeals by members of the British Section . |
| 14 | Before their arrival at Heathrow , their passports and tickets were confiscated ; when the British Airways plane landed , they were separated from the other passengers , put into a van and driven around for several hours before being forced back on the plane and sent out of the UK . |
| 15 | In 1987 the British Government introduced legislation which imposes fines on airlines bringing passengers to the UK without valid documents . |
| 16 | As a private activity there could be no objection to Christian members calling their fellow-believers to prayer , and I suppose that I and fellow-members of the British Humanist Association could have similarly organized a non-official meeting . |
| 17 | The title of the lecture in which these words appeared was Art-history as an Academic Study , but those were early days for the subject in the British Isles ; only in London was there undergraduate teaching , at the Courtauld Institute which opened in 1933 . |
| 18 | His working life was spent in the British Museum , whose print collection was his special care . |
| 19 | In 1904 Sidney Colvin was Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum . |
| 20 | The British reader , who is likely to have been spared certain of the varieties of suffering which are spoken of in the writings of Kundera and Klima , where a joke , or no joke , or nothing whatever , can sequester you for years from the people you grew up with , is in a position , for all that , to know what Sabina means here . |
| 21 | The British reader has only to listen to the sounds that protest makes in his own streets , to the cruel , brutal voices that bellow over loudhailers about injustice and the disadvantaged . |
| 22 | Of the British playwrights , Pinter is often thought to be on the edges of ‘ absurdism ’ and you could also read N.F. Simpson 's One Way Pendulum and Cresta Run . |
| 23 | The British Theatre Association , mentioned in the first edition of this book , has for decades offered professional and all-embracing training courses for actors , directors , and young people . |
| 24 | The British government only obtained certain concessions from the Stormont government in implementing measures of the welfare state variety after 1944 . |
| 25 | The British government over the water could have been a million miles away ( for detailed accounts see Arthur 1984 ; Buckland 1979 ; Farrell 1976 ; for a summary see McAllister 1983 ; for a summary of all forms of discrimination adopted , see Whyte 1983 ; Hillyard 1983 ) . |
| 26 | But the British government was still involved in the reproduction of antagonisms in the Ulster statelet , rather than passively accepting the perpetuation of inequalities and discrimination against the catholic — nationalist minority . |
| 27 | When the British state began its policies of social interventionism from 1945 , it succeeded in fragmenting the local power base of unionism by centralizing the sources of welfare and making them at least in part available across the sectarian divide . |
| 28 | At least up to 1985 , the British government submitted to the threat of violence from the loyalist community and accepted the protestant — loyalist veto on any change in the constitutional structure of their state . |
| 29 | However , in the interests of Western European stability and its own financial position , the British government is perhaps still putting off the final offer — either British withdrawal or some form of power-sharing with catholic nationalists — in the hope of loyalists coming round to what is seen as a more reasonable position . |
| 30 | The main economic differences reflect the different structures of the state and the different state policies adopted by the British and Irish governments at any one time , though with a significantly higher state sector of employment in Ulster . |