Example sentences of "of the [adj] british [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought with disdain of the average British couple filling a bed with their protuberances . |
| 2 | The level of the average British male may be 6 but given the incidence of heart disease in Scotland , perhaps the average is not to be desired . |
| 3 | On June 17 Ayatollah Hassan Sanei , who headed the private Foundation of 15th Khordad ( June 5 ) , declared that his organization , which had already offered a reward of $US2,000,000 for the killing of the Indian-born British writer Salman Rushdie , would also reimburse all costs incurred in such an act . |
| 4 | Despite the stink it raised in some quarters , The Krays made perfect sense as a symptom of the curious British habit of turning petty villains into national folk heroes . |
| 5 | Alec Guinness plays the epitome of the Decent British Officer Johnny who decides , in order to re-establish military discipline and morale among his men , to play ball with his captors by building a bridge , militarily essential to the Japanese . |
| 6 | This then was the Wolverton Royal Train of the later years of the LMSR and of the early British Rail period . |
| 7 | Wilson 's cabinets were dominated by Oxford and Cambridge : Jenkins , Jay , Crossman , Stewart , Healey , Benn — they were all members by birth or education of the metropolitan British establishment . |
| 8 | But this is exactly what we might have expected : with the emergence of the black British identity has come a matching linguistic persona , neither London nor Jamaican , but " London Jamaican " . |
| 9 | THE mother of the only British soldier to die in the Bosnian conflict will receive a posthumous United Nations medal on his behalf tomorrow . |
| 10 | On the contrary , it was the fusion of executive and legislative power that was at the heart of the eighteenth-century British constitution ! ) |
| 11 | There was an extensive export trade to Europe , North America and every part of the world-wide British empire , each country being catered for individually . |
| 12 | INTREPID Peter Bottomley , former scourge of the dozy British motorist , has not abandoned his life 's work just because Her Indoors shunted him from Transport to Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | Suicide in more conventional forms shows up prominently in the later records of the Kindertransporte , when the work of the RCM had been merged with that of the Central British Fund ( CB F ) . |
| 14 | His scrupulously tidy , chic apartment , a converted artist 's studio , contains furniture of his own design , pop art on the walls , a bookshelf prominently displaying the very latest Tom Wolfe volume , The Electric Kook-Aid Acid Test , and , on the coffee table , a copy of the prestigious British film magazine Sight and Sound . |
| 15 | Not since 1933 , when thousands waved from gardens and fields as the boat trains sailed from Dover to Victoria , where 10,000 people were waiting to greet Fred Perry and the rest of the victorious British team which had brought the trophy back fro Paris after beating the French team , has the Davis Cup known anything like it . |
| 16 | The seaside landlady figures prominently in the popular perception of the traditional British seaside holiday , but things were far from static in the inter-war period . |
| 17 | Meetings already arranged for this year include ‘ Changes in the wind — the end of the traditional British holiday ? ’ and ‘ The retail and catering consortium ’ . |
| 18 | I can announce today , a new scheme of the Know How Fund on top of the ordinary British Council programme to help Poland on the ambitious Polish aim of achieving 20,000 new English language teachers by the year 2,000 , and as a contribution ; as a help , an immediate help to that scheme er we ; the Know How Fund will provide on top of the British Council programme £400,000 for the teacher training colleges in Poland . |
| 19 | This is much more than sociologist 's simplification ; it seems to be deeply rooted in the mind of the ordinary British citizen . " |
| 20 | That anyone of Milner 's mental power and insight could envisage a course of events which ran contrary both to the logic and experience of the actual British Empire over a hundred and fifty years is a staggering fact . |
| 21 | The great British banger … an essential part of the great British breakfast . |
| 22 | This leaflet is produced by the Health Education Council in conjunction with the organisers of The Great British Bike Ride , an annual sponsored bike ride from Land 's End to John o' Groats organised by Bike Events and sponsored this year , once again , for Friends of the Earth . |
| 23 | Stage two in the construction of the great British writer . |
| 24 | Now , I 'm all for the members of the Great British Public knowing a great deal more about the nostrums they consume , and having the information needed to help them share in deciding which are worth having and when , and which are best left to the birds . |
| 25 | Tonight , BBC1 , 6.15pm CHRIS Tarrant brings more fun and frolics from the living rooms of the Great British Public . |
| 26 | Routes here provide some of the best climbs at their standard in Britain ; Sassenach , Centurion , The Bat , Titan 's Wall , Agrippa — names that represent the essence of the great British climbing adventure . |
| 27 | Fans of the great British sausage have formed an appreciation society to protect what they say is a healthy and nutritious food . |
| 28 | This was a sort of celebration meal , as word had reached us of the successful British attack on Caen . |
| 29 | The tale of Bob Thomas and Lyndon Laney 's company has all the trappings of the classic British success story . |
| 30 | If Nick Serota can raise the money for his plans then I would support them , provided the bulk of the historic British collection was on display . |