Example sentences of "[vb pp] the british [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Stack is vice president Europe for Air Express International and he was speaking just after AEI had won the British International Freight Association 's 1993 Air Division Gold Award . |
| 2 | The very anachronisms of British institutions reflect some of the compromises that have shaped the British upper class . |
| 3 | The pennies which changed hands raised a total of £85 which will be presented the British Red Cross at school assembly today . |
| 4 | The British Deaf and Dumb Association selected the British Red Cross Society to raise funds for , and raised enough to purchase and equip two mobile physiotherapy units . |
| 5 | A man who was held in an Indian prison for two years has accused the British Foreign office of failing to help him . |
| 6 | A husband and wife duo of lawyers-turned-smallholders may have founded the British Green Party , but there were no lawyers on the list , or surgeons , or stockbrokers ; or , for that matter , plumbers or shop stewards . |
| 7 | At a meeting in the Bahamas the previous month President Kennedy had persuaded the British prime minister , Harold Macmillan , to agree to the MLF in return for American Polaris missiles . |
| 8 | One of the country 's top police officers has condemned the British legal system as a game , which fails in its duty to victims and society . |
| 9 | Th there is erm a study going on to do with something called the British National Corpus which I do n't quite know what that 's about but they they want er samples of the sort of things that lecturers do in lecture theatres . |
| 10 | Erm yeah if er you have no objection , what it 's for is the , there 's this outfit called the British National Corpus and they 're trying to make a record of English Language as it 's used in the late twentieth century erm so it 's a sort of resource for further scholarship so it can assist in writing dictionaries and studying grammar and , and all sorts of things like that and erm they 're attempting to tape conversations from all over the place erm er I 've got a bit of bumph about it , it 's quite interesting erm and in some cases it 's sort of out of erm er it 's out of people 's homes , it 's out of broadcasts , it 's out of meetings , it 's out of all sorts of things erm at work and at home erm |
| 11 | Promotion by merit rather than political influence has long characterized the British civil service , but outside the civil service ministers still exercise considerable patronage . |
| 12 | In the summer of 1988 Linford drove to the West London Stadium in the Escort XR3i that Budget Rental had loaned the British Olympic Association for the use of potential team members . |
| 13 | On 27 April the British Ambassador in Belgrade , Ralph Stevenson , had cabled the British Resident Minister 's office in Caserta [ KP 40 ] , pointing out that Allied troops might very soon make contact with " anti-partisan Yugoslav forces " . |
| 14 | The lesson of the story is clear : re-established in Downing Street , John Major may feel he has steered the British political system away from contamination by the international . |
| 15 | Perhaps other parties , simply because they have lacked the British Labour party 's advantages , have necessarily had to be more adaptable and willing to make alliances . |
| 16 | As early as 31 July a presidential letter had bluntly warned the British prime minister that while " initial military success might be easy … the eventual price might become far too heavy " . |