Example sentences of "on britain 's " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | These were the years of the anti-fascist movement , the Japanese attack on Britain 's Asian empire , the British retreat and the Bengal famine during which two million people died . |
| 2 | THE 1980s will be remembered as the decade in which far-reaching changes were initiated on Britain 's InterCity network . |
| 3 | There are now 18.5 million cars on Britain 's roads , and by the year 2000 there will be 25 to 28 million . |
| 4 | He regards it as a way forward for the museum and a means of providing a window for many more people on Britain 's scientific and technological expertise . |
| 5 | Wind farms could soon become an unsightly blot on Britain 's landscape |
| 6 | How long it would last , however , when precisely inflationary pressures would build up , and how much the entire façade rested on Britain 's possession of North Sea oil and associated export revenues , were unanswered questions . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , in 1942 another committee was at work on Britain 's postwar civil aviation policy , but with a different focus : the aircraft themselves . |
| 8 | That was the deal to keep British filmmakers in business which Alexander Korda had proposed to government , and supported with his propaganda film , The Lion Has Wings ( 1939 ) , combining documentary footage with patriotic clips from earlier feature films and a contemporary narrative full of pontifications on Britain 's purpose in going to war . |
| 9 | She is expected to place great emphasis on Britain 's contribution to controlling the hole in the ozone layer and global warming . |
| 10 | WARNINGS about traffic jams building up on Britain 's motorways may soon come courtesy of Soviet spy satellites , following a deal struck yesterday . |
| 11 | FOREIGN media groups are expected to mount a major assault on Britain 's television industry following the publication of proposed broadcasting legislation which removes constraints on European takeovers and investments . |
| 12 | By extension , Mrs Thatcher 's quick endorsement is likely to backfire on Britain 's standing in Moscow . |
| 13 | Ending National Service , which helped to right the economy , was also placing a limit on Britain 's retention of imperial power . |
| 14 | Putting an exact figure on Britain 's NAIRU is rather like chasing a mirage , but changes in unemployment and inflation give clues to its general area . |
| 15 | Opponents point out that competing services ran on Britain 's first railway , the Stockton-Darlington line , opened in 1825 , but were abandoned as impractical after 1830 . |
| 16 | In purely military terms it was an amazing success reflecting great credit on Britain 's small but all-professional armed forces — which were such a contrast to the much bigger conscript forces I remembered from the 1950s . |
| 17 | What will be the effect on the pound sterling and on Britain 's economic standing in the world as the trade gap widens ? |
| 18 | A survey on the like effects of global warming on Britain 's butterflies suggests that most species will benefit from the milder winters and drier summers which are predicted . |
| 19 | THE BEST of Britain 's outstanding scenery , from the wild Cornish coastline the Highland peaks , is waiting for travellers on Britain 's Scenic Railways . |
| 20 | Boccia is a high-precision game of Italian origin which resembles the French sport of boule , and the quartet going to the Barcelona Paralympics are confident of improving on Britain 's fifth place at the Seoul Games . |
| 21 | On Britain 's initiative , the UN is establishing a register of arms transfers in order to monitor any dangerous arsenals of weapons . |
| 22 | But when BBC 2 's ‘ Newsnight ’ organised a kind of return match four German historians and journalists dwelt long on Britain 's archaic society and nineteenth-century delusions of grandeur . |
| 23 | During the early ninth century , the Vikings of Norway , Sweden and Denmark began raiding Anglo-Saxon colonies on Britain 's eastern coasts and within that century they became dominant in the north and east . |
| 24 | HEAT PUMPS turn out more usable energy than they consume — but their impact on Britain 's homes has fallen short of what many pundits predicted . |
| 25 | THE SERPELL report on Britain 's railways , published last week , recommends savage surgery . |
| 26 | More will have to go in order to recruit the highly-paid staff from the nuclear industry to look after the nuclear installations ’ inspectorate 's work on Britain 's revived nuclear power programme . |
| 27 | That , and unwanted copies of the Serpell report on Britain 's railways was something to stoke the fires with . |
| 28 | The British Technology Group should be there to support them — but it should not have a monopoly on Britain 's brains . |
| 29 | While the successive pages do indicate his point clearly , one can not help wondering whether 40 consecutive pages from the North American Telidon system , and 27 pages Listing topics available on Britain 's Prestel service , information providers and applications are not partly a convenient way of filling space ! |
| 30 | But Thatcher was never afraid of starting a dust-up over matters which impinged on Britain 's ‘ rights ’ and special interests . |