Example sentences of "the british [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did Ealing chose to make Dunkirk , about the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from the French beaches ? |
| 2 | The very next morning , German forces invaded Holland and Belgium , bypassing the French Maginot Line and a succession of Allied defeats led to the withdrawal of the bulk of the British Expeditionary Force from the beaches of Dunkirk , with a considerable loss of equipment . |
| 3 | This is an interesting case to examine , of course , because in Problems of Social Policy Titmuss presented it as a clear example of a policy change engendered originally by the social debate on evacuation , and then given sudden new urgency by the ‘ decisive ’ influence of Dunkirk in July 1940 ; a marked change in government thinking — a new acceptance of the milk-in-schools scheme as a universalist social service rather than a relief measure tainted with Poor Law associations — took place ‘ five days after the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk ’ . |
| 4 | After the deluge that decided the first battle of Ypres , King-Emperor George V arrived at the St Omer Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force in Northern France , and went away again . |
| 5 | General Sir Douglas Haig ( 1861–1928 ) took command of the British Expeditionary Force in succession to Sir John French on 10 December 1915 . |
| 6 | ‘ What in God 's name is happening to our lads in France ? ’ said Ruby whose son was with the British Expeditionary Force like Terry . |
| 7 | The British introduced trial by jury to the Low Country in 1811 , and this institution was retained after 1833 . |
| 8 | Jack Levenson , President of the British Dental Society for Clinical Nutrition , says that those suffering from mercury toxicity from fillings can benefit from nutritional supplementation . |
| 9 | Jack Levenson of the British Dental Society for Clinical Nutrition says , ‘ Too much fluoride can make teeth become mottled and brittle . |
| 10 | An editorial in the British Dental Journal in 1981 ( vol 1 50 , p 261 ) warned that fluoride supplement dosage levels recommended 20 years ago are too high and need modifying in the light of recent research , because of the ingestion of small doses of fluoride from many sources . |
| 11 | • Adverse reactions following gel applications were reported in the British Dental Journal in 1976 ( vol 140 p 307 ) . |
| 12 | The British General Strike of 1926 had given both Germany and Poland a new sense of the gains that might be made through co-operation , and while they explored this unexpected windfall , the effects of the Polish currency reform were hidden . |
| 13 | After the British general election of 1987 the Alliance would no doubt have been gratified to find itself under-represented to a degree no greater than that . |
| 14 | The British general election of 1991/2 |
| 15 | The British General Election of 1987-88 |
| 16 | In 1909 Hoppé organized the British pictorial contribution to the vast Dresden international exhibition ; in 1910 he held his first one-man show . |
| 17 | Thereafter Bobby Locke of South Africa and Peter Thomson of Australia dominated the British professional game alongside American entrants for the Open for twenty years after the Second World War . |
| 18 | After attending the British Chess Championships at Eastbourne , he was invited to join the British junior squad in Bridgend , Wales , last year . |
| 19 | He made 165 centuries in 11 months , and reached the final of the British junior championship in which he lost to Barry Pinches , a teenager from Norwich whom he was to defeat in last year 's world amateur final . |
| 20 | Hughes took the British junior team to Austria earlier this year , and the BJA has agreed to employ her as a part-time coach when she retires after the Commonwealth Games . |
| 21 | Alex Bennett , 14 , also of Nova Centurion , shaved 0.05sec off the British junior record for the 50m backstroke set five years ago . |
| 22 | During his absence his house and collections in Copenhagen were destroyed in the British naval bombardment in 1807 . |
| 23 | Born in Tel Aviv in 1927 , he worked as a radio operator in Italy for the pre-state Haganah militia during the campaign to smuggle Jewish Holocaust survivors past the British naval blockade of Palestine . |
| 24 | After two years of grinding work they produced a small profit , which was to herald a creation of wealth unsurpassed in the British chemical industry of the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | I came to the conclusion that there was quite a bit of room in the psyche of the British clockmaking establishment for a little humility . |
| 26 | What was it exactly that made Masailand such a pleasant place for members of the British Colonial Service to be ? |
| 27 | This group included the veteran politician Mbiyu Koinange , who had participated in missions to the British Colonial Secretary in the early 1950s , and Dr Njoroge Mungai , then a minister in the Kenyatta government . |
| 28 | Draper has documented how ‘ bureaucratism ’ attracted the attention of both Marx and Engels , notably the disastrous administration of the Crimean War , and the British colonial machinery for the control of India ( Draper 1977 , pp.511–13 ) . |
| 29 | In the installation ceremonies of the Divine King of the Shilluk tribe of the southern Sudan one of the most cherished items in the ceremonial regalia is now apparently a Scottish international rugby cap — one of the more exotic relics of the British colonial legacy in Africa . |
| 30 | The regular surveys carried out by the British Antarctic Survey at its Halley Bay and Faraday stations show that two-thirds of the layer had been destroyed before the end of September . |