Example sentences of "and the british " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the political significance of this culture is that where opinion counts and where the catholic — nationalist remnant actually experiences the coercive power of protestant loyalists and the British army in the Northern statelet , there violence has all the more support . |
| 2 | Under the treaty with the United Kingdom , the twenty-six counties which were to become the independent state were to remain within the British Empire with dominion status , and the British monarch was to remain head of state . |
| 3 | Like the county ‘ sheepdippers ’ and the borough men , both the specials and the British Transport Police were used to sustain a view of our own preeminence . |
| 4 | ‘ We are established in many other sports , including the Johnnie Walker Ryder Cup , the RAC Rally , the Silk Cut Derby at Hickstead , the Benson and Hedges Snooker Masters at Wembley , the Volvo European PGA Tour and the British Grand Prix ’ , explains Delahunty , ‘ and although we have been in tennis since 1985 when Stella Artois first commissioned us , I still look at tennis as a growth area . |
| 5 | But problems exist to be overcome and the British Schools LTA has made considerable progress in attempting to solve them . |
| 6 | They will include the English Open table tennis tournament , the women 's world and European weightlifting championships and the British and European 10m airgun championships . |
| 7 | When the Vichy French fled , de Gaulle 's Free French and the British took over the capital . |
| 8 | THATCHED HOUSE LODGE 5 October : Princess Alexandra , attended by Lady Mary Mumford , left Royal Air Force Benson this morning in an aircraft of The Queen 's Flight to visit the Caribbean Dependent Territories of Montserrat and the British Virgin Islands in the wake of the destruction caused by Hurricane Hugo . |
| 9 | Control of MTS is being contested by Twigrealm , a company backed by the South African meat trader Freddy Hirsch and the British property entrepreneur Stephen Wingate , and by Alpha Gamma , the property group . |
| 10 | The rigours of testing do not end next week as eight people , chosen by the Soviets and the British , will be taken to a Soviet hospital for further tests , the nature of which is as yet unclear . |
| 11 | THATCHED HOUSE LODGE 9 October : Princess Alexandra , attended by Lady Mary Mumford , arrived at Heathrow Airport this afternoon in an aircraft of The Queen 's Flight upon the conclusion of the visit to Monserrat and the British Virgin Islands . |
| 12 | Such a frank appraisal would elicit sympathy from the markets and the British people alike . |
| 13 | But the Cossacks had been fighting for the Germans and the British Army 's main concern in Austria in May 1945 was to comply with the Yalta agreement ordering repatriation so that the Russians would honour a promise to return British prisoners of war . |
| 14 | There he met Mohandas K. Gandhi , and spent much of the next 20 years acting as a conciliatory intermediary between Gandhi 's Congress Party and the British Government , latterly as a member of Gandhi 's entourage . |
| 15 | Dublin claimed allegations made in Parliament and the British Press linking Mr Ryan with the IRA meant he would not have faced a fair trial . |
| 16 | The governing bodies of other sports such as the Royal Yachting Association ( RYA ) and the British Canoe Union ( BCU ) operate similar awards to qualify you as an instructor of their own particular sport . |
| 17 | The European Convention is different in kind , and the British signatories of it , worthy predecessors to the signatories of the Treaty of Brussels in 1972 , put an end to a period of more than four centuries during which no causes have been carried out of this realm . |
| 18 | They did not : the Canadians had one sort of sovereign , and the British had another sort . |
| 19 | Pan American 's privileged position , and the British government 's perceived failure to assist BOAC 's own position , were so strongly resented by the British company that all but one of its directors resigned in protest in March 1943 . |
| 20 | British and Canadian representatives held talks in Quebec in August 1943 , and the British believed the Canadians were afraid of powerful US influence on any meeting of Commonwealth representatives before an international conference . |
| 21 | Here he finds organizations like the Liberty and property Defence League ( LPDL ) and The British Constitutional Association ( BCA ) , and individuals like Lord Wemyss , Herbert Spencer , A. V. Dicey , and Ernest Benn , all committed to individualism and all found supporting the political right . |
| 22 | But in the end Grey does venture the overall generalization that ‘ the experience in the Korean War demonstrated again the conflict between Dominion aspirations and increasing independence in policy formulation , and the British desire to maintain their status as a great power by drawing on the resources of the Dominions in ‘ friendly cooperation , ’ while at the same time arrogating to themselves the benefits which accrued from such association' ( p. 185 ) . |
| 23 | This is a major theme in the work of the American anthropologist Lowie and the British anthropologist , Radcliffe-Brown . |
| 24 | The aristocracy has kept a tight grip on ‘ the sport of kings ’ and the British royal family have kept a close eye on the Turf — the present Queen is a fine judge of a horse . |
| 25 | This brings us back to a central theme of Sport and the British : the extraordinary degree to which it has been promoted privately without politicians , employers , or trade unionists taking a significant part except as enthusiastic individual sportsmen . |
| 26 | Until now , there was little we could do about this , but complaints have been taken seriously and discussions are now under way between OFTEL , the Office of Telecommunications , and the British Direct Marketing Association ( BDMA , representing companies who use telesales ) . |
| 27 | The Asiz were already at the scene of the accident , and the arrival of the company 's interpreter did much to help communication between the Asiz , the local fire brigade and the British Sergeant . |
| 28 | When it comes to clothes and the British high street , I think the standard has dropped radically in the last five years . |
| 29 | ‘ My daughters said I should come here to help clear this thing up , to find who really did this because unless it is cleared up then history will say that we were sent to our deaths by Britain , and that means the British people and the British army and they do n't deserve that because it is out of character . ’ |
| 30 | They disembarked at Queen 's Pier , next to the town hall and the British garrison headquarters , for the 25-minute welcome ceremony . |