Example sentences of "[prep] the old british [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | National Railway Museum ( York ) Set up in 1975 , as a part of the Science Museum , London , the Yorkshire body houses the contents of the old British Museum of Transport . |
| 2 | the economic ties of the old British Empire were tightened during this period and Britain remained at the centre of that group of countries ' trade and finance |
| 3 | He said it as though they had settled in some remote outpost of the old British Empire and not in handy , holidaymaker 's Chiantishire . |
| 4 | The Israelis , of course , do not dispute the legality of the old British mandate deeds . |
| 5 | This thing he was putting himself in for was not ordinary athletics , but a curious hybrid of a sport which , it seemed to Jazz now , was so peculiarly rooted in the old British tradition that anyone pretending to come into it wearing a bloody turban was going to stick out like a clown in a gathering of clerics . |
| 6 | Apart from organising his domestic life , Stella Pullman was a disciplinarian in the old British landlady tradition ( her husband was a former RAF pilot who now flew for BOAC ) . |