Example sentences of "[adv prt] by the british [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was taken over by the British Transport Commission ( later to become British Rail ) in 1949 and much of the magnificent original decoration and marble was either taken away , covered up or painted over . |
| 2 | The idea has been taken up by the British Library , and by Scottish university libraries , though no dramatic results appear to have been registered so far as acquisition practice is concerned . |
| 3 | In the same year in the UK the Review Committee on Education for Information Use , which was set up by the British Library Research and Development Department ( BLR&DD ) in 1974 , was recommending that : |
| 4 | All important to the reputation of the company is British Standard 5750 , the quality assurance scheme set up by the British Standards Institute and to which Stoddard Carpets Ltd. , were awarded full registration two years ago . |
| 5 | In the place of the marble fantasies they tore down , the British erected some of the most crushingly ugly buildings ever thrown up by the British Empire — a set of barracks that look as if they have been modelled on Wormwood Scrubs . |
| 6 | Most significant in recent years have been the field experiments carried out by the British ornithologists Nick Davies and Mike Brooke from the University of Cambridge , and the field observations of another British ornithologist , Ian Wyllie . |
| 7 | But the studies , carried out by the British Trust for Ornithology for the Department of Energy and the Mersey Barrage Company , have still to indicate whether or how the bird population might be changed by a barrage . |
| 8 | A survey carried out by the British Market Research Bureau revealed that nearly half of Britain 's working population refuse to think about their retirement , with one in three couples admitting that they never even discuss old age between themselves . |
| 9 | No I 've been picked out by the British Market Research Bureau |
| 10 | Unfortunately no clear evidence of ownership was found during the 1964–71 excavations carried out by the British Egypt Exploration Society . |
| 11 | I hope the Noble Earl will be able to give me an answer in perhaps in correspondence following this , also the date upon which at they were informed , because I am sure he will realise the implications as far as the rest of the British Police Service are concerned that as from April of this year they will have to take on a heavy burden of work which is now being carried out by the British Transport Police . |
| 12 | They met General Morandi , a soldier of fortune who had fought at Missolonghi , and who indignantly denied to them the calumny put about by the British aristocracy that Byron had deteriorated morally while in Greece : ‘ He was magnificent , ’ the General told them . |
| 13 | However , in mid-February an Interior Ministry spokesman insisted that the idea that Markov had been assassinated by the Bulgarian security service was a fiction put about by the British press , and he accused the Sunday Times of having invented the umbrella scenario after British agents had planted the poisoned pellet on Markov 's body . |
| 14 | But Italy 's sports journalists gave a unanimous thumbs down to the show put on by the British player they have dubbed ‘ Gazza di Gateshead ’ . |