Example sentences of "britain for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The policy paper of March 2 , A Safer Britain for Women , sets forth the core of Labour 's programme to interpose the state between men and women , artificially dividing them and their interests as effectively as , on a larger scale , it plans to prise apart the peoples of the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | Its navy , particularly , has drawn heavily on Britain for ships , customs and training . |
| 3 | The Warnock Report reviewed educational provision in Great Britain for children and young people ‘ handicapped by disabilities of body or mind ’ . |
| 4 | But how do those western women feel , for example , who having lived with their Indian husbands in Britain for years , are suddenly thrust into the bosom of the joint family , even temporarily . |
| 5 | In 1986 , on their first tour to Britain for years , the Bolshoi 's artistic director , Yuri Grigorovich , revealed Mukhamedov to the ballet world , and it gasped with astonishment . |
| 6 | He plays Jeremy Conway , a spy who 's been in Britain for years achieving a powerful position with a large London bank . |
| 7 | Barn owls have been declining in Britain for years as hedges where their food lives are ripped out . |
| 8 | Intravenous acetylcysteine remains the antidote of choice in Britain for patients presenting to medical care early enough ; oral methionine , another precursor of hepatic glutathione , is probably inferior to acetylcysteine as vomiting is common after overdose and metabolism to glutathione may be impaired by increasing liver dysfunction . |
| 9 | Bronze , an alloy of mainly copper and tin , could be polished until it looked almost like gold , and the technique of making it had been known in Britain for centuries . |
| 10 | The ‘ aristocratic ’ character of landowning has been a central basis for social status and political power in Britain for centuries , and the divisions of interest between land and industry have been fundamental to the political development of the upper class . |
| 11 | The main impetus in Britain for measures to deal with age discrimination at the workplace — despite the current recession — derive from the so called demographic time bomb which will be increasingly felt by all organisations , public and private , during the 1990s and into the next century . |
| 12 | MPs voted by 348 votes to 123 last night in favour of legislating to allow the prosecution of alleged war criminals now living in Britain for crimes committed in Germany or German-occupied territory during the last war . |