Example sentences of "britain [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was ‘ Lord Haw-Haw of Hamburg , in the darkest days of the war when Britain fought on alone against the might of the Fascist dictators . ’ |
| 2 | In 1956 Britain drew up a scheme for a free trade area of OEEC states , but it was not put forward until November and by then the work of the Six , to British surprise , had progressed well . |
| 3 | Britain dropped out of the project when the space-research budget was cut last year , but the satellite would be particularly useful for monitoring the destruction of the Amazon forest and other aspects of climatic change . |
| 4 | Britain seemed in almost bullish mood as 1977 went out . |
| 5 | The most important is the social protocol in which 11 of the 12 members ( Britain opted out ) agreed to use majority voting to harmonise working conditions and employees ' rights in the Community . |
| 6 | Britain woke up just in time . |
| 7 | There were big exhibits of people living in dreadful conditions in tenements in the East End for example , and the legislation in Britain followed about , in America I mean , followed about three years later . |
| 8 | As I have already suggested , this interpretation of what Britain signed up to is highly debatable . |
| 9 | But , if Britain pulled out , the French were likely to go ahead anyway . |
| 10 | The rate of economic growth in Britain slowed down and for a period was in absolute decline . |
| 11 | It is a long time since any potential national leader in Britain leapt up from the starting-blocks in quite such a dramatic way . |
| 12 | There were no great men or women either , as Britain settled down resignedly into the second or even third-class status enjoyed by Venice , Spain , Sweden , Holland , and other failed empire-builders of the past . |
| 13 | REVOLUTION IN REVERSE It 's a century and a half since Britain brought about an industrial revolution and dominated the age of steam , iron and the mechanisation of textile manufacture . |
| 14 | The exceptions were in 1983 and 1987 , when Britain grew by about two points faster than the rest . |
| 15 | The bank rate went down , and so did the Irish government , while the weight of lorries allowed on the roads of Britain went up from 3212 to 38 tonnes . |
| 16 | Grocery prices in Britain went up 26 per cent between 1985 and 1990 — compared with five per cent in Germany and 16 per cent in France . |
| 17 | Britain went on to beat Israel 4–1 at Eastbourne to regain their World Group status and Bates added : ‘ I was playing number two to John Lloyd in singles and that was great for me . ’ |
| 18 | In the last year employment in Britain went down by 873,000 . |
| 19 | As a result of deflation , productivity in Britain went down last year , whereas in Germany it went up . |
| 20 | Finding that Spain was unwilling to part with Fernando Po , Britain gave up its settlement in 1833 . |
| 21 | At the Treaty of Amiens , designed to provide a half-time interval in the Napoleonic War , Britain gave up this rather theoretical claim ( but incidentally got Ceylon , Trinidad and a few other colonial gems ) and dropped the fleur-de-lis . |
| 22 | In the three years after his retirement , Britain chalked up no fewer than four prime ministers until Earl Grey managed to fill his shoes . |
| 23 | While the rest of Britain fopped about in lace-fronted pinafores and all the other collected frippery of the New Romanticism , NME smashed you in the teeth with Henry Rollins ' forearm . |
| 24 | The nomal revision to which the trade figures are subject has meant that July this year has replaced October 1988 as the month in which Britain ran up its worst ever current account deficit . |
| 25 | The miracle is that Britain held on to the bloody Empire for so long . |
| 26 | In 1793 Britain set up a Board of Agriculture to promote the growing of potatoes to counter Napoleon 's threat to starve this country into submission . |