Example sentences of "the [adj] british [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the 1986 figures from the Department of Health and Social Security suggest that almost 9 million , a sixth of the total British population are living on a wage which is on or below the SB poverty line . |
| 2 | In other words , Britain has been ruled by a government of what is generally regarded as the normal British kind — a single-party government with a majority in the House of Commons , capable of getting its measures on to the statute book without open or tacit agreements with any other party — for only 54 of the 84 years of this century . |
| 3 | There can be no doubt that the normal British ideal was for adults of different generations to live in separate houses . |
| 4 | Paul and Miranda Gunn had their charming young family to help them look after the guests ; their two sons Mr Munro Gunn who works at John D. Wood , and Mr Marcus Gunn who had just got home from Paris , where is working at the Paris Business School ; also their two daughters Miss Petronella Gunn , who is studying at Bristol University ; and seventeen-year-old Miss Rosie Gunn , who is a member of the Junior British Eventing team , and last year competed at Lausanne , where she won the award for the highest placed British rider . |
| 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 | The strong British contingent was led by the current title holder , Dave Swanson , and the 1989 champion , Bolton 's Paul Dugdale . |
| 7 | The strong British element in some of the metalwork from Sutton Hoo might also be seen in this light . |
| 8 | Inevitably , policy failures were attributed to the government and its officials , when the blame lay more widely with the whole of the community and in particular with the strong British dislike both for rethinking an entire situation and for the radical changes that might have to follow from such a reconsideration . |
| 9 | Christophe Profit and Pierre Beghin have climbed the difficult north face/north-west ridge of K2 — the route attempted by the ill-fated British expedition of 1986 . |
| 10 | In 1793 , in a more striking case , a boy of seventeen was left at the beginning of the struggle with the French revolution as the sole British representative at the military headquarters of the king of Prussia . |
| 11 | Sole English challenger Dayflower , now registered with Henry Cecil having begun the season in Dubai , is the sole British representative . |
| 12 | Though no world-beater in the trailblazing Thompson mould , he emerged as Britain 's number one decathlete last summer , taking the bronze medal at the World Student Games in Sheffield and claiming the sole British place for the World Championships in Tokyo , where a hamstring tear forced him to withdraw on the eve of competition . |
| 13 | The tale of Bob Thomas and Lyndon Laney 's company has all the trappings of the classic British success story . |
| 14 | The first I would label the ‘ naturalist ’ approach , and the classic British example is the highly influential work of Havelock Ellis , especially his majestic Studies in the Psychology of Sex . |
| 15 | Of course , we are still receiving the odd British shell dropping in the orchard . |
| 16 | As I crouched in the slit trench in the semi-darkness I could hear the odd British shell that had been intended for the Germans but had dropped short in the orchard explode with a terrific roar close at hand , causing a shower of dirt to fall from the roof of the trench . |
| 17 | He did a couple of commercials , even the odd British film . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Even after the Committee had been disbanded , the officially sponsored League Conference had called for its reformation and supported participation in the National Youth Campaign , an offshoot of the Communist-controlled British Youth Peace Assembly . |
| 20 | Nuclear Electric , the state-owned British operator , has proposed the construction of a new nuclear power station next to the Sizewell B site in Suffolk . |
| 21 | Otherwise , the tolerant British public is paying three times over for its cheap food ; once in the shops , twice in its taxes , thrice in its support of the common agricultural policy 's dumping practices . |
| 22 | If Nick Serota can raise the money for his plans then I would support them , provided the bulk of the historic British collection was on display . |
| 23 | Hawkins from Bingley is the reigning British champion , livesey finished fifth at Knockdhu last year while Kinch was runner-up at the second race of the British championship in Wales two weeks ago . |
| 24 | INTREPID Peter Bottomley , former scourge of the dozy British motorist , has not abandoned his life 's work just because Her Indoors shunted him from Transport to Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | His scrupulously tidy , chic apartment , a converted artist 's studio , contains furniture of his own design , pop art on the walls , a bookshelf prominently displaying the very latest Tom Wolfe volume , The Electric Kook-Aid Acid Test , and , on the coffee table , a copy of the prestigious British film magazine Sight and Sound . |
| 26 | With a list of accolades under her no doubt stylish belt — including the prestigious British Designer of the Year Award in 1985 and an MBE in 1987 — she has certainly had an illustrious career . |
| 27 | He was sentimental and politically naïve , and the outstanding British boxer at the heavier weights in the first half of the twentieth century . |
| 28 | Artemis London launched itself earlier this summer with City of Objects : designs on Berlin by the controversial British architect William Alsop working with London-based abstract artist Bruce McLean . |
| 29 | I 'm interested in the romantic novel , and erm in the way in which certain kinds of English fiction affect American models in this period , which continues in a way my interest in popular fiction , because the American fiction really takes as its model in the late eighteenth century , the early nineteenth century , not in fact so much the mainstream British fiction of the eighteenth century , we think of Defoe or Fielding or Richardson or Smollett , these do n't provide very suitable models for American writers during that period because they 're all models based on the assumption of a fixed kind of society . |
| 30 | One hang-up for the profit-motivated British garage is that they feel it is not worth taking on work for less than a tenner . |