Example sentences of "on the [adj] british [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An American TV cameraman filming in Oxford Street said : ‘ We are doing a piece on the great British spirit . ’ |
| 2 | Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi remained closed from the beginning of May following the issuing of a " death sentence " by Moslem fundamentalist students against the pro-Vice-Chancellor , Professor Mushirul Hasan , who had called for the lifting of the ban , in force since October 1988 on the grounds of blasphemy , on the Indian-born British novelist Salman Rushdie 's novel The Satanic Verses [ see p 36450 ] . |
| 3 | THE DELIVERY of milk in the UK is about to undergo its biggest shake-up since the war — and this has nothing to do with any possible attack on the traditional British pinta by Brussels Eurocrats . |
| 4 | Inspector of Ancient Monuments , will give an illustrated talk on the 18th-century British soldier at home and how he spent his spare time . |
| 5 | That autumn , in the New Left Review , Juliet Mitchell was writing her ‘ Women , the longest revolution ’ article , whose impact , eventually , on the new British feminism was to be enormous , but while the Marxist journal was on sale in Indica its message did n't penetrate It — or many other places — in those days . |
| 6 | THE predicted overspend on the new British Library would have paid for a £1 million public library for every UK local authority , leaving over £100 million for an extension to the British Museum Reading Room with a new underground storage area — which was what everyone wanted in the first place . |
| 7 | Sorry to be so vague , darling , but blame it on the unreliable British climate . |