Example sentences of "see [prep] britain " in BNC.
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| 1 | The catalogue introduction was by John Galsworthy [ q.v. ] , the critics were enthusiastic , and the show was seen throughout Britain . |
| 2 | The environmental health department is seen throughout Britain as being a nice place to come . |
| 3 | It was something very rarely seen in Britain , or in other democracies : an emergency government — or , in Hoare 's words , ‘ an emergency Committee of public Safety ’ , formed for a specific purpose , and intended to last for a specific period of time . |
| 4 | Water sports on reservoirs are threatened as more evidence emerges of the blue-green algae , which feed on pollution and were first seen in Britain this summer . |
| 5 | But many are alarmed by what they have seen in Britain and America . |
| 6 | Into this political maelstrom , Maastricht has at last emerged as an issue , provoking the kind of controversy seen in Britain last year . |
| 7 | In exchange , many goods came into the country — some of them never seen in Britain before . |
| 8 | There were red-throated pipits , a bird but rarely seen in Britain while on migration , and which I first identified on Out Skerries . |
| 9 | This would almost certainly be seen in Britain as constituting an infringement of private property rights . |
| 10 | Now was the main race , a true International with 17 nations on the start line , something we have not seen in Britain for some time despite the fact that the entry was limited because of the following week 's World Sprint Championships which caused some potential entrants to opt out . |
| 11 | Our experience of sponsorship in Scotland was invaluable and , because of the success we enjoyed there with volleyball , we chose to support the National Leagues and Cup competitions in England and we recently sponsored a four-nations international event which provided some of the finest volleyball ever seen in Britain ; thanks to television coverage , nationwide audiences were able to share in the excitement . |
| 12 | Last Monday , in the worst picket line clashes seen in Britain since the 1980s , protesters fought with police as buses arrived with newly-recruited workers , hired to replace some of the 340 Timex workers sacked nine weeks ago . |
| 13 | Some even go so far as to link its emergence to the coming of reggae music to Britain , circa 1970 , and the first reggae film widely seen in Britain , Perry Henzell 's ( 1972 ) The Harder They Come starring Jimmy Cliff . |
| 14 | The development of organised diplomatic archives and of foreign office libraries is perhaps best seen in Britain . |
| 15 | Four hundred aircraft from fifty airforces , fourteen aerobatic teams , some planes which have never been seen in Britain before . |
| 16 | THE newly-found Aarseth-Brewington comet should brighten rapidly this month as it sweeps southwards through Ophiuchus in our morning sky , perhaps to become a naked eye object before it dips too far south to be seen from Britain . |
| 17 | THE newly-found Aarseth-Brewington comet should brighten rapidly this month as it sweeps southwards through Ophiuchus in our morning sky , perhaps to become a naked eye object before it dips too far south to be seen from Britain . |
| 18 | By tomorrow night ( Friday ) it will be too far south to be easily seen from Britain , as it heads towards its closest point to the Sun on Saturday week . |
| 19 | It adjoins Vela and Pyxis , and is always very low as seen from Britain ; part of it does not rise at all . |
| 20 | Unfortunately it is too far south to be properly seen from Britain or the northern United States , but when high up it is truly impressive , and it is easy to conjure up the picture of a scorpion from the long line of bright stars , with the ‘ head ’ and the ‘ sting ’ . |
| 21 | Many of the birds we see in Britain do n't spend the whole year here . |
| 22 | Bewick 's swans are smaller than the mute swans we see in Britain all year round . |
| 23 | The research , carried out for the Independent Television Commission , asserts that most television viewers are not offended by what they see on Britain 's four main channels . |