Example sentences of "to the [adj] british [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will remember that a decision was taken a few years ago that we would lay our track to the standard British gauge of 4′ 8½″ rather than to the Irish gauge of 5′ 3″ . |
| 2 | The legal doctrine of legislative supremacy articulates the courts ' commitment to the current British scheme of parliamentary democracy . |
| 3 | Check that the jacket has been made to the current British Standard by looking for the label with the " Kitemark " symbol . |
| 4 | This revolution has a special relevance to the current British debate on the health of the nation . |
| 5 | The single , ‘ Connected ’ , is released on September 7 , prior to the ground-breaking British rap outfit 's third album , also titled ‘ Connected ’ on October 5 . |
| 6 | They were compiling information for a guide to the Great British pub-goer . |
| 7 | Both of these places are within walking distance of Docklands but I did not go to the Great British Beer Festival . |
| 8 | But I did not go to the Great British Beer Festival . |
| 9 | We have a new Committee organising events after the AGM , but one future event I can tell you about is the trip to the Great British Beer Festival . |
| 10 | Nor was it properly explained to the modern British public , any more than it was in 1925 , why the ‘ discipline ’ could not be imposed direct on the economy without it being necessary to cling to another country 's shirt tails to do so . |
| 11 | A day or two later he resumed the courtesies by paying mischievous tribute to the new British drill which his dentist had used to cure him . |
| 12 | The search for alternatives to the failed British system of state provision led Segalman and Marsland to look for , and find , a welfare idyll in Switzerland . |
| 13 | Formal letters too always appear excessively polite and somewhat ‘ flowery ’ to the average British reader . |
| 14 | In addition to the traditional British company using headhunting firms , the financial services community ( always a large user of executive search ) was pulling even more strongly . |
| 15 | A section of opinion believes that the emphasis on the Green Belt has obscured the major threat to the traditional British countryside which lies in the inappropriate development of small country towns . |
| 16 | Such a reliance on free capital enterprise is foreign to the present British scene ; but it could be suggested that without it , any community development is likely to fail . |
| 17 | Part of this negative image may be attributed to the general British dislike of South Asians who had acquired some knowledge of English and who followed some Western customs , but who had not fully assimilated the values of an English gentleman . |
| 18 | An official government report published in July 1991 has concluded that we need to make substantial changes to the typical British diet if we are to reduce some of the major health concerns such as heart disease . |
| 19 | It would not be a source of comfort to the hardpressed British public if they were to become aware that ( reckoning our overseas statistics globally not a single bean of substance for themselves or of capital equipment for British manufacturers is likely to be left over from the American credit ; and that we shall require , on balance , the whole of it , and , unless we change our ways , much more to feed and sustain Allies , liberated territories and ex-enemies , to maintain our military prestige overseas , and , generally speaking to cut a dash in the world considerably above our means . |
| 20 | The Fund was launched on March 26 , 1968 as a lasting and practical memorial to the much-loved British musician whose name it bears . |
| 21 | The Fund was launched on March 26 , 1968 as a lasting and practical memorial to the much-loved British musician whose name it bears . |
| 22 | That comes naturally to the old-fashioned British gentleman — especially the Scottish version . |
| 23 | One protest postcard showed a picture of a smiling Uncle Sam in stars-and-stripes suit bending down to offer a gleaming white PWR to the banner-holding British public . |
| 24 | Familiar sight to the large British contingent was this ARV Super 2 , offered by Aviation Scotland Ltd. with a choice of three engines — two two-strokes and a Norton rotary . |
| 25 | To the large British contingent of Formula One teams , staff , drivers and reporters , it was good news to have a Briton like Mosley in power . |
| 26 | In Great Britain the ear becomes accustomed to the native British voice handling the classical text , but this really should not hinder American actors ; they need not become totally ‘ accentless ’ in order to play classical verse . |
| 27 | According to the conventional British wisdom of the middle of the century , our flexible unwritten constitution , our democratic Parliament , the sense of fair play of our permanent civil service , and our vigorous and vigilant free Press were safer and more effective guarantees of personal freedom than a Continental or American-style ‘ government of judges ’ . |
| 28 | The pernicious influence of sponsorship on content may have been a fact in the States but was irrelevant to the proposed British system . |
| 29 | MICHAELSON & ORIENT At a gallery specialising in ceramics , a show devoted to the distinguished British ceramicist , Henry Pim . |
| 30 | The company founded by Ralph Lauren in 1967 traffics in all manner of hunting , fishing , nautical , equestrian and golfing-themed clothes for Americans who still look to the mythical British Empire for their cultural cues . |