Example sentences of "britain [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it was , alongside the battering ram of Scottish public opinion came the well-directed arrows of Charter 88 's Democracy Day to force the key questions of liberalising and decentralising the governance of Britain on to the political map . |
| 2 | Mr Major hit out at pessimists who were undermining confidence by talking Britain down through ‘ messages of gloom ’ : |
| 3 | When it is obvious that the other 11 Governments are prepared to accept the draft before them at Maastricht today and that this Government are not , the Government are confessing to a unique combination of political prejudice and economic weakness which marks them out from the rest of the Community and which marks Britain down in the Community . |
| 4 | Complications were , however , introduced into the overall structural pattern with the later growth of unions of other types , such as big competing general unions and white-collar organisations in Britain along with industrial unions in the USA . |
| 5 | At the Earth Summit in Rio Britain along with the other major powers agreed to limit its greenhouse gas emissions and the Environment Secretary believes the only way to cut consumption is to hit the consumers ' pocket . |
| 6 | To those — like C. P. Scott , editor of the Manchester Guardian — who opposed all alliances in the name of the Cobdenite principle of non-intervention , he replied that non-intervention was a sterile doctrine that would cut Britain off from its rightful place within the emerging community of European nations . |
| 7 | Up to £40 million per year , for the next five years , has been earmarked for projects that should keep Britain up with research for the next generation of computer systems . |
| 8 | The results of isolationism in terms of human suffering were massive emigration ( some 20,000 every year to Britain up to the 1960s ) , and industrial and commercial underdevelopment until the late 1950s . |
| 9 | RENEWED pressure has been placed on the Government to lengthen the summer season by bringing Britain up to European standards for public holidays . |
| 10 | The entire programme spanned the period of the most demanding war ever fought by Britain up to that time , first against the new French Republic and later against Napoleon 's Empire . |
| 11 | Although the Conservatives are seen as the natural allies of nuclear power , the ordering of every commercial reactor in Britain up to the 1980s was carried out by a Labour administration . |
| 12 | The Roman conquest of Britain started in earnest in the year AD 43 and by about AD 120 , the whole of Britain up to Hadrian 's wall in the north became a Roman province . |
| 13 | Gary Freeman , for instance , the scorer of the tries which knocked Britain out of the World Cup last year , was yesterday to be seen vainly flapping after Roy Haggerty , prior to Neil Holding 's all-important drop goal . |
| 14 | Keynes was intuitively convinced that public works would lift Britain out of the depression . |
| 15 | Though some of the President 's advisers wished to use the crisis to drive Britain out of the nuclear deterrent business altogether , Kennedy had no intention of doing so , and insisted on a formula being found that would enable Britain to buy Polaris without jeopardizing the US policy of working towards a NATO Multilateral or Multinational nuclear force . |
| 16 | Mr Kinnock promised a patriotic Government with a sense of purpose to get Britain out of recession and rebuild the country 's essential public services . |
| 17 | If the Liberal Democrats threaten rebellion , Labour will say : ‘ We have a programme to get Britain out of recession ; we want to get rid of the poll tax ; we want to rescue the health service , and you are standing in our way in order to get petty party advantage . |
| 18 | He said Labour was seeking a mandate for the action needed to pull Britain out of recession . |
| 19 | Today Labour talks of investment to pull Britain out of recession , but its investment is merely a euphemism for public spending on an unprecedented scale . |
| 20 | Mr Heseltine , who has emerged as one of the key figures in Mr Major 's administration , will be expected to help Britain out of recession and inspire hard-pressed business and industry . |
| 21 | Labour 's programme for national recovery will this year help bring Britain out of recession . |
| 22 | The Labour government will promote Britain out of the European second division into which our country has been relegated by the Tories . |
| 23 | Paradoxically , Labour should wish Major well in all his efforts to get Britain out of recession and to decrease unemployment , as this will unleash other pressures that could help the party . |
| 24 | It must also put together a package which will help to ease Britain out of the recession . |
| 25 | All of them seem to have different ideas about what should be done to get Britain out of recession . |
| 26 | CONFIDENCE is what is needed to get Britain out of the recession . |
| 27 | Yet if that is the only way to raise the cash to get Britain out of the recession , so be it . |
| 28 | The cut to seven per cent forms part of John Major 's growth package designed to propel Britain out of recession . |
| 29 | TYCOON Richard Branson told yesterday how he would run the country — after a poll showed he was tops to pull Britain out of the slump . |
| 30 | The Chancellor had totally failed to come up with an industrial strategy to move Britain out of recession , Mr Brown said . |