Example sentences of "britain [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 50-year-old singer , currently in Britain to help celebrate Buddy Holly Week , sponsored by ex-Beatle Paul McCartney , was presenting a prize today at the Rock Brain of Britain competition in London 's Victoria Palace . |
| 2 | But whereas the year before the absence of yellowing was proof that Britain did not have the same forest decline as in Europe , its discovery did not show that Britain did have the same forest decline . |
| 3 | Furthermore , whatever reducing arguments are accepted , nearly all commentators acknowledge that Britain did have an unemployment problem of some considerable dimensions in the 1980s ( which was heavily age- and geographically concentrated ) . |
| 4 | Furthermore Britain did take a leading role in the acceptance of Marshall aid from America , creating the Brussels Pact and forming NATO . |
| 5 | Often Asian women coming from joint families in the Indian subcontinent to join their husbands in Britain do succeed in making the necessary emotional adjustment , but for many of them it takes months if not years ; for some coping with the total emotional dependence on the husband alone is just not possible . |
| 6 | On the other hand the cultural expectations which continue to be endorsed in Britain do embody — for some groups at least — a stronger commitment between siblings than is common in white British culture . |
| 7 | Some of the traditional theories used to account for the failure of the extreme right in Great Britain do have something to say about the reasons for this . |
| 8 | The tremendous variety of metal artefacts in use during the Roman Occupation of Britain does present something of a challenge to the detector user in the identification and evaluation of his finds . |
| 9 | Britain DOES expect the UN to take up its offer of at least some troops . |
| 10 | There is no doubt that Britain does lead , in the sense that it is the only country with a comprehensive framework of race relations law . |
| 11 | Britain does need a proper , tip-top museum of modern art ; and that does mean splitting the Tate . |
| 12 | Britain does have a Secretary of State for Education and Science , but there the science is secondary to the education portfolio and is too narrowly defined . |
| 13 | Independent studies by the Acid Waters Review Group , sponsored by the Department of the Environment , the University of London and Greenpeace , all point to the same conclusion — that Britain does have acidified lakes . |
| 14 | Britain does have a future as part of the EC but I want it to be prosperous again in its own right . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , although it is not a reason to pass over them as Todd does , a limiting factor in the work of experimental novelists in Britain does seem , as he suggests , to be that they are consistently assigned to marginal rather than mainstream positions . |