Example sentences of "britain 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris is riding at number two in britain 's number one bob and has just won bronze and silver in the latest round of the world cup … |
| 2 | When Britain 's chancellor of the exchequer introduced his new tax on mobile telephones last week , he called them ‘ one of the greatest scourges of modern life ’ . |
| 3 | The ‘ Trinidad terms ’ , proposed in 1990 by John Major when he was Britain 's chancellor , write off two-thirds of a poor country 's debt incurred before a certain date , and reschedule the rest over 25 years . |
| 4 | Norman Lamont , then Britain 's Chancellor of the Exchequer , joined his fellow finance ministers in Kolding , Denmark , in welcoming the reports last weekend . |
| 5 | The best known was Whittingham House , twenty miles from Edinburgh , described by an admiring nonresident as ‘ a little Jerusalem in Britain 's green and pleasant land ’ . |
| 6 | Sir John Fisher , the First Sea Lord , was determined to maintain Great Britain 's supremacy and quickly grasped the potential of the design of a new warship , to be named Dreadnought . |
| 7 | There was nothing pre-ordained in Britain 's supremacy , or in the industrial specialising eventually adopted by different coal fields ( and sung by a hundred previous textbooks ) . |
| 8 | BRITAIN 's heavyweight champion , Lennox Lewis , will lose £420,000 of his huge purse for fighting America 's Tony Tucker in May if moves fail to overturn a World Boxing Council ruling . |
| 9 | BRITAIN 'S biotechnology company , Celltech , is making a pitch at a £2000 million market to pull itself into the black . |
| 10 | The Foreign Affairs Committee of Britain 's Parliament said recently of this forum : ‘ It is accountable to no one . |
| 11 | It must be hoped that in the 1990s the nature of the modern business cycle is different from what it was in the 1920s and that the long-term devastation caused by Britain 's return to the Gold Standard will not be repeated . |
| 12 | John Winant , the US ambassador in Britain , wrote on 28 February that this reflected Britain 's concern with security rather than with ‘ commercial enterprise ’ ; ‘ It also reflects the British apprehension that they may be swamped competitively by US aviation and their consequent desire to guarantee themselves a percentage , even though small , of the available business . ’ |
| 13 | Despite this , the quality of Britain 's water was ‘ as good , if not better , than that of most other European countries ’ , said Dr Johnston . |
| 14 | This ‘ myth ’ had created an ‘ inferiority complex ’ among Britain 's water suppliers that was discouraging investment in new , clean technology . |
| 15 | And then , the Daily Telegraph discovered ‘ the truth ’ : ‘ privatisation of Britain 's water industry … runs against the grain of Mr Delors ’ social strategy . ’ |
| 16 | Just as officialdom saw the legendary return of salmon to the Thames as evidence that Britain 's water pollution was cured , so it gloried in the Clean Air Acts of the 1950s and turned a ‘ blind eye ’ to dying lakes , moribund trees and the links between car exhaust and human health that became apparent in the 1980s . |
| 17 | SEWERS : At the end of last year the House of Lords ' select committee on science and technology reported on the state of Britain 's water industry . |
| 18 | Soft acid waters , from the peaty hills that supply much of Britain 's water , are eating into the iron water mains of many towns . |
| 19 | When Britain 's water companies went private in 1989 it was predicted that the cost of improving water services would be £28 billion over a decade . |
| 20 | Firstly , the newly privatised water companies have to bring Britain 's water supply up to the European Community standards . |
| 21 | Destroying Britain 's water cooling towers to defeat Legionnaire 's disease is neither sound science nor sensible economics . |
| 22 | But these bright spots were dimmed by the assassination of the Western-orientated Hashemite royal family in Baghdad on 14th July 1958 during the Nasser-inspired coup , which ended Britain 's treaty relations with Iraq and led to the RAF 's withdrawal from the Habbaniyah and Shu'aiba air bases that lay on the air-reinforcement route to the Far East . |
| 23 | Britain 's Ministry of Defence was instrumental in blocking GEC 's first attempt to merge with Plessey — and in extracting concessions in return for allowing GEC , in partnership with Siemens of West Germany , to acquire Plessey at the second bite . |
| 24 | BRITAIN 's Ministry of Defence is speeding up plans to buy new ships , radars and weapons . |
| 25 | BRITAIN 'S Ministry of Defence has decided not to protect the voluntary civilian crews of the Royal Navy 's new minesweepers against radioactive fallout , in order to save money . |
| 26 | The most elaborate response for broad-ranging rationalisation had come from Britain in 1952 with the Eden Plan , but this had been a response to Britain 's anxiety about what the little Europe of the Six might achieve . |
| 27 | THE CHOICE of Sardinia — now confirmed as the venue for the opening stages of England 's 1990 World Cup campaign — satisfies the requirement laid down by Britain 's Minister for Sport , Mr Colin Moynihan , that these matches ought to be played ‘ on an island where the problem can be contained . ’ |
| 28 | The implications of the new technological revolution go far beyond the silicon chip and its offspring , a message that may have penetrated as far as Kenneth Baker , Britain 's Minister for Information Technology . |
| 29 | KENNETH Baker , Britain 's minister for information technology , is planning a mission to India to persuade the country to invest in British satellite technology . |
| 30 | But if one looks for Britain 's centre of gravity , it is found to be nearer the first in each pair of choices above . |