Example sentences of "the british [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As ADF Gascoigne , the British Consul at the time , said in a despatch , Tangier was ‘ a plundered town ’ . |
| 2 | When asked if they would like subventions from the state to aid their stipends and church buildings , a move which was being seriously considered by the British government at the time , priests and bishops were united in rejecting the idea on the grounds that it would drive a wedge between clergy and people , identifying clergy with the principal enemies of the people . |
| 3 | on that point er would the er minister indicate whether or not the British government supports the attitude of the French government because of course the British government at the time of the Edinburgh summit were wholly in favour of the agreement to require the European parliament to meet both in Brussels and in Strasbourg and therefore I assume that there 's an identity of interest between the British government and the French government on this question since the French government are maintaining their er opposition to the er six extra seats simply because they want to see a new parliament building constructed in Strasbourg , is that a position that the British government supports ? |
| 4 | He was architect of the British pavilion at the Paris exhibition of 1937 , and was involved in designing displays and selecting exhibits under the chairmanship of Frank Pick [ q.v . ] . |
| 5 | James Hamilton had joined the British Army at the outbreak of war . |
| 6 | That role , more than likely , will be filled by Brannen , the leading contender for the British trial at the Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield on Friday and Saturday . |
| 7 | 9.6 A group of north-south oriented graves within barrows excavated by the British Museum at the village of Burton Fleming in Humberside ( courtesy Tony Pacitto ) . |
| 8 | The British Museum at the beginning of the century was an enormous cabinet where classical sculptures , ethnographic material and natural history specimens were all to be found . |
| 9 | As is often the case in the creation of new ideas , there were many scholars working along the same lines as these theorists , particularly those trying to analyze the experience of the British Empire at the end of the nineteenth century , pre-eminently the ‘ social-liberal ’ J.A . |
| 10 | As leader of the British delegation at the 1927 Geneva naval disarmament conference , he resisted American claims to ‘ parity ’ which in reality threatened British naval inferiority . |
| 11 | A final essay speculates about the state of the British family at the beginning of the next century . |
| 12 | The contrast between the British economy at the end of the nineteenth century and at the present is quite striking . |
| 13 | It committed itself , as we have seen , to a radical restructuring of the British economy at the expense of the working class , and integral to this programme was an attack upon trade-union ‘ power ’ and the dismantling of the welfare-state . |
| 14 | Ironically , with its determined attempt to restructure the British economy at the expense of the working class , and by taking such a hard line on scroungers and loungers , the Conservative Government has created the very social conditions which have led to the intensification of the very crime wave it was elected to end . |
| 15 | ‘ The Great Age of British Watercolours 1750–1880 ’ is the conception of Andrew Wilton , Keeper of the British Collection at the Tate Gallery , working with Anne Lyles , Assistant Keeper . |
| 16 | For on nearly every American campus there is an atelier in the shape of a ‘ Creative Writing programme ’ , whereas on no British campus is there any such thing , and indeed the British scoff at the mere possibility — on precisely the grounds that Newbolt here puts forward . |
| 17 | Richard Phelps and Graham Brookhouse … they were in the British team at the Olympics in Barcelona … this weekend they 're competing against each other for the British Title in Bedford … |
| 18 | The British official at the two-plus-four talks is the Foreign Office 's political director , Mr John Weston . |