Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] british [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Perhaps the royal family itself must take some blame for the manic British obsession with its affairs . |
| 5 | Bethnal Green 's Francis Ampofo meets Scot James Drummond for the vacant British flyweight title in London next Tuesday . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He created the first Mary Quant perfume and a fragrance for the distinguished British designer Jean Muir . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We only maintain the cenotaph memorials for the Royal British Legion . ’ |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A charter deal has been struck between The Royal British Legion ( Marketing ) Ltd and P&O ) Cruises . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It says something , perhaps , about the persisting British inability to realise the depth of commitment to something totally new that existed among the Six . |
| 25 | He took the glass although he disliked iced drinks after the brief British summer and asked : ‘ Had a busy day ? ’ |
| 26 | He thought with disdain of the average British couple filling a bed with their protuberances . |
| 27 | The level of the average British male may be 6 but given the incidence of heart disease in Scotland , perhaps the average is not to be desired . |
| 28 | On June 17 Ayatollah Hassan Sanei , who headed the private Foundation of 15th Khordad ( June 5 ) , declared that his organization , which had already offered a reward of $US2,000,000 for the killing of the Indian-born British writer Salman Rushdie , would also reimburse all costs incurred in such an act . |
| 29 | Despite the stink it raised in some quarters , The Krays made perfect sense as a symptom of the curious British habit of turning petty villains into national folk heroes . |
| 30 | Alec Guinness plays the epitome of the Decent British Officer Johnny who decides , in order to re-establish military discipline and morale among his men , to play ball with his captors by building a bridge , militarily essential to the Japanese . |