Example sentences of "[adj] empire [conj] commonwealth " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself writing one or two half-hour scripts each week — scripts entitled ‘ The Voice of the Violin ’ , ‘ The Story of Dr Sun Yat-Sen ’ , ‘ The Thin Red Line ’ ( the British empire and commonwealth ) and , among others , ‘ The Life of John Buchan ’ . |
| 2 | Clement Attlee announced that the British Empire and Commonwealth , being based on Christian principles , was ‘ the exact contrast to the Nazi conception of a world order ’ , which was the expression of the creed of Antichrist , and countless other speeches were made in the same vein . |
| 3 | Another major event which has affected the British economy is the decline of the British Empire and Commonwealth , linked as it was in a major way to the two world wars of this century . |
| 4 | So is the history of some other non-European areas — African history ; the history of the British Empire and Commonwealth ( particularly Australia ) , modern India , China and Japan . |
| 5 | The British Empire and Commonwealth — it meant British , because it was run jointly by people from each of those countries , and they all got something out of it . |