Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the british [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 10 April it was announced that a ‘ task force ’ of 10,000 men would be assembled under the command of Rear-Admiral ‘ Sandy ’ Woodward , to sail into the South Atlantic , whatever the hazards , and recapture the Falklands for the British Commonwealth . |
| 2 | The Argentinian base at Esparanza in the British sector , displays a notice proclaiming it Argentinian . |
| 3 | The first designer to unveil his collection for the spring season was Rifat Ozbek , whose successor as designer of the year , is to be announced on Tuesday at the British Fashion Awards at the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 4 | Climbers intending to visit the site should telephone Bill Wright at the British Mountaineering Council for clarification of the position |
| 5 | Much investment has borne fruit already : in the publication by Chadwyck-Healey of the British Library Catalogue on CD-ROM , in the electronic output ( including CD-ROM publications ) of the National Bibliographic Service , in the publication by Bowker-Saur of the retroconverted Catalogue of Printed Music , and so on . |
| 6 | Insp David Taylor of the British Transport police said it was fortunate that the train did not career off the track . |
| 7 | McCallen is hoping that the Honda will remain in one piece after tomorrow for it travels on to Donington for the British Championship meeting the next day where it will be ridden by Steve Hislop with McCallen reverting to the slower RC30 Honda . |
| 8 | It was in the Age Group finals at the Grove that young Fergus clocked a Gold medal time ( 71.31 secs ) that has earned him selection by Ireland for the British Age Group championships in Leeds two months from now . |
| 9 | How Prince could have known the thoughts of almost three hundred people is difficult to imagine , but it was not an opinion held by John Edward Gray of the British Museum , nor of Lord Derby . |
| 10 | Other candidates proposed have included Nicholas Turner of the British Museum , Andrew Robison of the National Gallery , Washington , Marguerite Stuffmann of the Städelsches Kunstinstitut , Frankfurt ( Goldner 's suggestion to the Met ) , Gandolfi expert Mimi Cazort of the National Gallery of Canada , and Bean 's own assistant curator , William M. Griswold , whose youth is considered by some to be a liability . |
| 11 | Sessions will be chaired by Nicholas Turner of the British Museum and Professor John Onians of Norwich . |
| 12 | " It was an insult , " thundered Tupper , " to the service which had turned England into the British Empire , an incredible stupidity which would halve the mariner 's loyalty automatically " . |
| 13 | Yeah it 's like with me , I mean of course do n't forget that I 've got a good two hundred pounds to come on about the fifth of December from the British Legion 's savings . |
| 14 | In return for the money received by Northern Ireland from the British taxpayer , the Unionists had turned the British flag into a party-political symbol and had made a mockery of the British tradition of social justice . |
| 15 | Khrushchev explicitly stated to me that one of his reasons for suspending tests was because he had studied the effect of the CND on the British public . |
| 16 | LONDONERS gathered in their thousands at Hyde Park , last Saturday to welcome bandsmen from all over Scotland and Ireland to the British Piping Championships . |
| 17 | Back in London , deserting his native Liverpool which he compared unfavourably to Manchester , he was advised by William Leach at the British Museum to take up lithography . |
| 18 | In the past few years I have been involved in a Seminar for senior administrators from the Third World studying at British Universities A group of 25 or 30 is gathered each year at Plockton in Wester Ross by the British Council , the ODA and the Highland Board . |
| 19 | The betrayer , Oswald , believes that it is possible to cut oneself off from the past ( compare the argument between Tom Paine and Burke about the British constitution ; is it desirable to imitate the French and abolish the past by Revolution ? ) . |
| 20 | Running parallel to the Medau sessions was a course organised by Anne Talintyre for the British team of Modern Rhythmic Gymnasts in training for the World Championships . |
| 21 | In addition to plant lists and systematic notes , this contained an account of the vegetation by Miss Campbell 's close associate , A. J. Wilmott of the British Museum ( Natural History ) . |
| 22 | Some time that year there occurred a famous meeting at the Vienna Café , in New Oxford Street near the British Museum , when Pound as Binyon 's ‘ bulldog ’ met Wyndham Lewis as the ‘ bulldog ’ of T. Sturge Moore . |
| 23 | But the headlining act — a quartet splicing the former Miles Davis guitarist John Scofield with the British saxophonist Andy Sheppard — struck fireworks that went a long way towards helping the audience breathe out after some dodgy moments during the presentations . |
| 24 | In 1928 an Indian graduate student , Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , set sail for England to study at Cambridge with the British astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington , an expert on general relativity . |
| 25 | MIDDLESBROUGH face a tough challenge to end a losing run when they entertain Coventry in the British Speedway Promoters ' Association first round tomorrow night . |
| 26 | Last year Alain stayed with us in Yorkshire before the British GP . |
| 27 | Football : Toshack confronts his Real test : Shankly 's protege carries the Liverpool creed to Madrid in a relentless pursuit of the European Cup : Patrick Barclay on the British manager putting the nice on ice in the hotbed of Spanish football |
| 28 | During 1760 the long run of British success continued , culminating , on 8 September , with the surrender of all Canada to the British crown . |
| 29 | The students mention the seventy-year occupation of the Schwe Dagon by the British army , and the devastation they left behind . |
| 30 | Paul Craddock of the British Museum Research Laboratory has pointed out that the silver in metals used at Igbo Ukwu would almost certainly have been recovered by European and Arab smiths of the period , while the unusually low iron content suggests the copper was made by a very primitive technology . |