Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] british [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of the introduction of machines and the growth of markets , relatively unrestricted by government , the standard of living for the average British person — judged in terms of food , clothing , shelter , health , life expectancy , infant mortality , education and material possessions — increased on an unprecedented scale over these years . |
| 2 | THE SLUMP is set to blow the froth off beer prices as brewers prepare to combat a fall in demand for the traditional British pint . |
| 3 | For the early British researchers , surveys were a means of obtaining from large numbers of people reports on their conditions of life , while for the American surveyors , more interest was expressed in attitudes and opinions which predispose people to behave in certain ways . |
| 4 | He had been sales director for the major British manufacturer and had left two or three years ago when they were absorbed into a large industrial conglomerate . |
| 5 | Perhaps the royal family itself must take some blame for the manic British obsession with its affairs . |
| 6 | Bethnal Green 's Francis Ampofo meets Scot James Drummond for the vacant British flyweight title in London next Tuesday . |
| 7 | For years 45 Sutton Place became a meeting place and home-from-home for the entire British colony in New York — a place where British actors , writers and directors , great and small , knew that they had not only a constant refuge but a friendly shoulder to lean on and a sympathetic ear . |
| 8 | France 's Channel 5 — La Cinq — abandoned its fight to survive just as the Independent Broadcasting Authority opened bidding for the new British station with a warning of the commercial risk . |
| 9 | Let's hear it for the Great British Biopic , based on the sort of real-life story which might have leapt straight from the pages of the tabloids , and which in some cases actually did : Ruth Ellis , who shot her feckless lover and paid the ultimate price , in Dance with a Stranger ; Sid Vicious , the smack-addled punk who stabbed his girlfriend in Sid and Nancy ; Joe Orton , the homosexual playwright whose lover battered him to death with a hammer in Prick Up Your Ears ; Josslyn Hay , twenty-second Earl of Errol , who was shot to death in Kenya , in White Mischief ; Christine Keeler , John Profumo and Stephen Ward in Scandal . |
| 10 | WHILE Craig Chalmers revealed in this paper earlier this week that he might just have a chance of being put on standby for the forthcoming British Lions tour , he is now more upbeat about the prospects of that happening . |
| 11 | One hang-up for the profit-motivated British garage is that they feel it is not worth taking on work for less than a tenner . |
| 12 | He created the first Mary Quant perfume and a fragrance for the distinguished British designer Jean Muir . |
| 13 | There were 186 non-responders , giving a response rate for ACFA members of 82% , and for the whole British population with cystic fibrosis of 56% ( table I ) . |
| 14 | Asked to organise a tea party to raise funds for the Royal British Legion women 's section 's national birthday scheme , Liphook branch hit on the idea of turning theirs into a Mad Hatter 's tea party . |
| 15 | We only maintain the cenotaph memorials for the Royal British Legion . ’ |
| 16 | And then on six two , do you wish to grant a permit to allow a flag day to take place on one or two days during nineteen ninety-one , for the Royal British Legion ? |
| 17 | He left Afghanistan in 1838 and during the ensuing British invasion remained in Sind , writing up his researches and travels for publication in London ( Ariana Antiqua , 1841 , and Narrative of Various Journeys , 3 vols. , 1842 ) . |
| 18 | In other words , Britain has been ruled by a government of what is generally regarded as the normal British kind — a single-party government with a majority in the House of Commons , capable of getting its measures on to the statute book without open or tacit agreements with any other party — for only 54 of the 84 years of this century . |
| 19 | In 1793 , in a more striking case , a boy of seventeen was left at the beginning of the struggle with the French revolution as the sole British representative at the military headquarters of the king of Prussia . |
| 20 | Some forms of the second genus were apparently more difficult for the trade union movement to identify , one of these being that created in 1872 by William Paterson Lind , Superintendent Registrar for the Port of London , as the London Seamen 's Mutual Protection Society , later known as the Amalgamate British Seamen 's Protection Society . |
| 21 | All three firms , however , plan to expand in this area , leaving the state-backed Inmos as the only British supplier of high-volume standard chips ( Box A on p 638 ) . |
| 22 | As the great British biologist/mathematician J.B.S. Haldane commented , human beings would be hard pressed , however long natural selection acted upon them , to sprout the wings of an angel ; we just do not have the genes that would even begin to provide the appropriate structures , and past selection has never acted to provide us with these structures . |
| 23 | As rivals in the individual stakes , though , McColgan starts as the leading British challenger and is strongly fancied to stop American Lynn Jennings claiming a third successive title . |
| 24 | British Aerospace , possibly in partnership with Thomson CSF of France , has emerged as the leading British contender to mount a bid but could face Ministry of Defence objections . |
| 25 | A charter deal has been struck between The Royal British Legion ( Marketing ) Ltd and P&O ) Cruises . |
| 26 | My paper tells me that a dispute over pay between the leading British manufacturer of seaside rock and his chief sugar boiler has left the latter jobless and the former with umpteen sticks of rocks bearing the legend Mean Bastard all the way through . |
| 27 | The steam centre based in the Warwick Road , Birmingham is situated in between the main British Rail diesel multiple unit maintenance depot and re-fuelling sidings , complete with a large car-park for several hundred cars . |
| 28 | It says something , perhaps , about the persisting British inability to realise the depth of commitment to something totally new that existed among the Six . |
| 29 | Last month he was hauled before the management committee of the British Judo Association to explain a series of criticisms he had made in The Independent after the poor British results at the European Championships in Helsinki last May . |
| 30 | He took the glass although he disliked iced drinks after the brief British summer and asked : ‘ Had a busy day ? ’ |