Example sentences of "[prep] britain [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To cross the Atlantic in the early Fifties from the modest hopes of Britain to the United , Euphoric , You-name-it-they-had-it States was to court vertigo . |
| 2 | I strenuously reject the suggestion of the hon. Member for Gateshead , East ( Ms. Quin ) that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is not the best person to negotiate on behalf of Britain at the forthcoming summit . |
| 3 | The two water regions of Britain with the greatest nitrate problems are Anglian and Severn Trent . |
| 4 | THE influence of Britain on the European Community sank to an all-time low in 1989 and 1990 . |
| 5 | In the minds of those who gave positive thought to it , the Commonwealth was to be an organization to which no one who was unwilling need apply , and in which those who had joined were to reach their decisions on the basis of consensus : the goal to be pursued was an uncoerced acknowledgement of Britain as the senior partner in a world-wide enterprise ; the position to be sought was the supremely equivocal but potentially supreme satisfying one of primus inter pares . |
| 6 | Brailsford deplored the incapacity of pacifists to get to grips with the larger drift of British foreign policy — the effective entry of Britain into the European alliance system . |
| 7 | The entry of Britain into the Common Market in 1973 had given us access to a 10% repayment scheme of the Consolidated Fund , allowed under EEC rules , and it was from this source that the money would come for the expansion of the Customs fleet . |
| 8 | They seem to be working their way around the main shopping areas of Britain over the last two years . |
| 9 | One of the dominant social characteristics of Britain over the past fifty years has been the degree of upward social mobility of those whose parents held traditional working-class jobs . |
| 10 | During the Roman occupation of Britain between the first and fourth centuries , there is evidence of greater variety in cattle sizes ranging from the small Iron Age types to some much larger and more hefty stock . |
| 11 | I felt that it should now be placed on record that the monumental and disgraceful row which was a feature during the Battle of Britain between the two Air Vice-Marshals — Keith Park and Leigh Mallory — was in no way comparable to the discord that appeared to exist between Bennett and AVM Sir Ralph Cochrane , AOC No 5 Group . |
| 12 | When arable land replaced pasture over much of Britain between the 1950s and 1980s , there was little in the soil ecosystem to hold nitrate back ( only rarely is it all used by the crops ) . |
| 13 | Contained within the breccias are the fossilized bones of many animals that lived in this part of Britain during the middle Pleistocene , and we will be describing the way in which the fossil bones of the smaller animals came to be deposited . |
| 14 | The aim of the disks will be to present as complete a statistical portrayal as possible of Britain during the 1980s and the Archive has supplied national level data mainly from the large-scale Government generated reference surveys for one of the video-disks . |
| 15 | The Minister knows of my concern about the attitude of this Government and previous Governments and that of the people of Britain towards the disabled . |
| 16 | The aim of this research project is to study modern food habits in an inner city area of Britain in the 1990s . |
| 17 | The result is a profound advance from the position of Britain in the '70s to that of Britain in the '90s — an advance that must be continued . |
| 18 | The zones would apparently diminish employment protection and welfare legislation ; they would create few , worthwhile , genuinely new jobs ; and they diverted attention away from the dramatic contraction in investment and employment that was occurring in large parts of Britain in the early 1980s . |
| 19 | Jim Mason is writing of Britain in the early 1980s . |
| 20 | Ian Norrie began visiting the regions of Britain in the late '60s for the revised Mumby 's . |
| 21 | A book in similar vein was his edited volume Britain and the beast ( 1938 ) in which his assembled contributors reviled the symptoms of Britain in the modern age and offered a nostalgia for the past . |
| 22 | An example of corporatism at work may be that of Britain in the 1960s where the unions , represented by the Trades Union Congress , and big business , represented by the Confederation of British Industry , seemed to have easy access to government . |
| 23 | In the context of Britain in the 1960s , for example , government recognises the legitimate right of the Trades Union Congress to be consulted over issues which affect its members . |
| 24 | Hyam also deplores the recent ‘ willingness of Third World governments to adopt the peculiar Purity laws and conventions of Britain in the 1880s as if they represented ultimate truths about human civilisation ’ . |
| 25 | No doubt , in many ways this gloom about the condition of Britain in the seventies was exaggerated . |
| 26 | Superficially such a resolution might appear to have been no more than a minimum concession by the Federation in response to the seamen 's involvement in a wave of strikes by transport workers which had reverberated around the ports of Britain in the previous summer — an undertaking that it would withdraw its " ticket " if the union would do the same , so that neither side would attempt to control the supply of seamen and free labour disputes would cease . |
| 27 | British fascism was born of the failure of economic conservatism to check the rapid decline of Britain in the inter-war years . |
| 28 | The result is a profound advance from the position of Britain in the '70s to that of Britain in the '90s — an advance that must be continued . |
| 29 | Floggings in the army , and more especially in the navy , were another integral feature of the moral landscape of the rulers of Britain in the 1860s . |
| 30 | Lewis and Townsend describe the North-South divide as ‘ one of the distinctive characteristics of Britain in the 1980s ’ . |