Example sentences of "about the english " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm worried about the English Literature Society 's threat to burn Dame Iris Murdoch in effigy . ’ |
| 2 | New ways of thought , concentrated but largely ineffectual attempts to persuade the British that they are ‘ European ’ , a fear of talking about the English ‘ race ’ and its diaspora round the world and the virtual disappearance of the word ‘ Protestant ’ as an adjective to describe anyone other than Ulster fanatics , has meant that a once powerful cultural and historic bond is little understood in the late twentieth century . |
| 3 | Basing the structure of authority upon a governor , a council for day-to-day affairs , and an assembly to pass legislation , vote taxes , and express the trend of public feeling was an arrangement that would seem natural to anyone who knew about the English system of King , Privy Council , and parliament . |
| 4 | and are translated into a work for academic and study for the purpose of general knowledge about the English language . |
| 5 | Any attempt to generalize about the English village is therefore regarded as an affront : bland uniformity is an attribute of the urban population , but the English village is believed to be resistant to any summary . |
| 6 | Far more settlements had access to areas of common and waste than is generally acknowledged in books about the English landscape ( Fig. 82 ) . |
| 7 | I often say that if we thought as much about the English language and teaching it and all that that means as the French do about their language and the Alliance Francaise , we would back the British Council to the hilt . |
| 8 | … which Calcutta-born journalist with a flair for illustration eventually won international acclaim through novels about the English class system ? |
| 9 | You want to talk about the English novel ? |
| 10 | The village is being created to teach Japanese people about the English way of life . |