Example sentences of "both [art] british [conj] " in BNC.

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1 But the pattern of leaks since then has complicated things for both the British and Irish .
2 In the Far East , the future of Hong Kong , an immensely important financial and manufacturing centre , where the British lease was due to run out in 1997 , was left in abeyance by both the British and the Chinese governments , in the post-Mao era .
3 Two crash programmes in December and January have boosted production of 81mm mortar bombs for both the British and the American forces — and the British design has been adapted to make it fit the slightly different mortar used by the Americans .
4 His Embassy build-up flopped last week from an early Irish Masters defeat after winning both the British and European crowns .
5 Most of the coastal details of these islands were fairly well known to the hydrographers of both the British and Dutch navies , but little was known about their inland geography .
6 During the Second World War the King of Saudi Arabia , Abdul Aziz , managed to convince both the British and the Germans that he was on their side .
7 It is noteworthy , however , that both the British and French governments , with their much smaller nuclear forces , have apparently stuck to a declaratory policy of targeting Soviet cities , and have not made statements repudiating purely anti-population strategy in any way comparable with the 1983 US statement quoted .
8 Firstly , since free labour was cheaper and more productive than slave labour , East Indian sugar could be sold , if allowed to compete on equal terms , at a lower price than West Indian in both the British and European markets .
9 She now writes for both the British and American press .
10 The Rockies , Great Lakes and the gargantuan Niagara Falls lend an air of immense grandeur and beauty to this former French outpost , now a bilingual land which maintains strong ties with both the British and French cultures .
11 They had been stolen in 1907 causing both the British and Irish authorities much embarrassment , especially since they had vanished on the eve of a royal visit .
12 We in Canada have always lived with the imperialism of both the British and the Americans .
13 It is difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of the link programme , but we believe it has helped to broaden the perspective of both the British and the Brazilian participants .
14 The Nazis had assiduously courted Reza Shah , exploiting his desire to see Iran become more independent of both the British and the Russians .
15 He attacked both the British and the Russians for their " imperialist " policies in Iran and called for a free , independent Iran with a constitutional monarchy .
16 The Shah now showed himself incapable of decisive action , Dispatches form Both the British and the American embassies at the time commented on him with patronizing contempt .
17 The team 's report will be presented to the Colombian government , as well as both the British and Colombian universities involved in the expedition and UK-based organisations which may be able to put the information to further use .
18 From the 1760s onwards both the British and French armies made intermittent and rather unsuccessful experiments with explosive shells , while shrapnel was first demonstrated publicly at Gibraltar in 1787 .
19 At the beginning of October , as the German Bundesbank took no immediate steps to reduce interest rates , both the British and Italian currencies fell sharply against the deutschmark , but then recovered .
20 He could rely on some influential supporters in both the British and the American presses .
21 In the course of a remarkable year , Mhairi , who played off plus-two , won both the British and Belgian Girls ' Championships , the Scottish Girls ' Closed Championship and the Helen Holm Trophy .
22 The University of Edinburgh is a major postgraduate teaching and research centre in both a British and international context .
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