Example sentences of "and [verb] by the british " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Public Order Act of 1936 was passed by Parliament to control political rallies and marches by the British Union of Fascists and the counter-demonstrations which such rallies provoked . |
| 2 | We are considering an institution supposedly deeply loved and revered by the British public almost to the point of mystical attachment . |
| 3 | Sponsored by the Royal Mint and organised by the British Art Medal Society , around 350 delegates attended the conference at the British Museum which concentrated primarily on the theme of the relationship between medals and drawings . |
| 4 | Novices should get professional instruction at a riding school which has been inspected and approved by the British Horse Society . |
| 5 | Unlike Imperial Airways ' successor , BOAC , which was a nationalized company and used by the British government during the war , Pan American was able to use its private enterprise and political influence to expand its services dramatically . |
| 6 | Paratroopers , after losing 15 men in one of the bloodiest battles of the conflict at Goose Green , discovered crates of 35 mm anti-aircraft ammunition made and supplied by the British Manufacture and Research Company , of Grantham , Lincolnshire . |
| 7 | What we are condoning , or rather , taking for granted in our film , is a tunnel , illegal and therefore officially unacknowledged , completed in 1955 , dug by the Americans and equipped by the British . |
| 8 | Enough has been said to indicate how the institutions and the legal system to which Britain acceded have been able , on the back of the Treaty of Rome and its amendments , to stretch their influence far beyond the economic boundaries hoped for and assumed by the British . |
| 9 | One does not hope to see Les Peard around in the same way as the name of Winston Jones vanished after he handed Scotland their 1984 Grand Slam on a plate , aided and abetted by the British press and its tirade against French forward play . |
| 10 | Some inhabitants of Attica perhaps did not bother much with either deme or polis politics : the country house below the cave of Pan at Vari ( the ancient deme of Anagyruus ) , whose remains were cleared and studied by the British School at Athens and published in 1973 , gives an impression of self-sufficiency — there is copious archaeological evidence for bee-keeping at the Vari villa — and peace , a long way from the speechmakers of the Pnyx . |
| 11 | A further deep-seated reason for neglect lies in the unforgiving attitudes of the general population towards criminals , which , although fostered and maintained by the British , existed long before and after they left ( cf. |
| 12 | Those who recover often live in fear of a second , potentially fatal , attack , but a new test , pioneered in Australia by Dr John Bourke and funded by the British Heart Foundation , may identify those at risk . |
| 13 | Besides , it was not until 1921 that the country Iraq was defined and created by the British in the context of the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire . |
| 14 | The mine is run by the Tsumeb Corporation Limited ( TCL ) , owned and managed by the British company Consolidated Goldfields . |
| 15 | The loan was arranged by the Bank of Scotland and backed by the British Government . |