Example sentences of "of british [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pearson challenged the rest of British cinema 's reliance on middle-class theatre by commissioning original stories that could appeal o a more popular audience . |
| 2 | The failure of British cinema 's first big drive on the international market-place provoked some serious reflection about why British films had only limited offshore appeal . |
| 3 | An opinion poll in the Sunday Times showed that 80% of the population backed Britain 's military involvement , and 60% thought it was worth the loss of British servicemen 's lives to regain Kuwait . |
| 4 | Durie , who has already lamented the standard of British women 's tennis on show at Telford this week , has now dropped only 16 games in four matches . |
| 5 | Country Landowners Association president Lord De Ramsey became one of the first of British agriculture 's leaders to meet the new Minister . |
| 6 | Another reason could be that the IRA had become aware of British intelligence 's drive for informers . |
| 7 | Secondly , as we have seen , by allowing the NSA to eavesdrop on British communications ( as it does from the Morwenstow station in Cornwall which scoops up everything passing in and out of British Telecom 's ground station at Goonhilly ) , it allows British ministers to claim that GCHQ does not monitor calls within Britain . |
| 8 | The government disclosed its plans for WCY on the last day of January simultaneously in London and six cities , courtesy of British Telecom 's £200 an hour Confravision service . |
| 9 | Several wild song thrushes in different parts of Britain — and some blackbirds too — have been heard singing a new song that bears a striking resemblance to the distinctive electronic warble of British Telecom 's ‘ trimphones ’ . |
| 10 | Margaret Bell of British Telecom 's Management College is quoted by the National Interactive Video Centre ( March , 1988 ) pointing out the economy of interactive video . |
| 11 | The MPs had become increasingly sceptical of British Rail 's demand that the bill go ahead before BR and Eurorail , the private-sector consortium , decide on the last section of the tunnel route . |
| 12 | But only a hiatus at National Carriers caused by the closure of British Rail 's door-to-door parcels service in 1980 stopped NFC going the way of other privatisations — into the pockets of disinterested individuals and institutions . |
| 13 | His new-created fiefdom , a product of British Rail 's radical restructuring of 1982 , covers BR 's entire passenger business apart from Inter City and Network SouthEast . |
| 14 | Dispatches ( C4 ) went a lot further and , on the basis of British Rail 's own recent inquiries , came up with a luridly tangled tale of opportunism , misappropriation and downright fraud . |
| 15 | Mair interviewed a clutch of former BR executives who claimed they had been made redundant for pressing their inquiries too closely , and the understandably defensive chairman of British Rail 's Parcels Board , Gordon Pettitt , who admitted that things had gone wrong but could n't see what all the fuss was about . |
| 16 | Being one of British Rail 's Standard Class 5's , it is unusual in being fitted with Caprotti Rotary Valve Gear . |
| 17 | This is the electronic version of British Rail 's timetable and it comes as no surprise to find that it 's subject to BR 's usual get-out clauses . |
| 18 | The reality of life at passenger-level , mentioned only indirectly , could have been examined more thoroughly to determine the efficiency of British Rail 's service delivery , surely the basis for its existence . |
| 19 | Smaller cuts were made through the reduction , privatization or closure of most of British Rail 's workshops . |
| 20 | The Secretary of State has said several times today how proud he is of British Rail 's safety record — a pride which we all share — but that is surely no reason not to look again at the real doubts that have arisen in the past year about manning , the number of hours worked and the quality of some of the new systems of signalling that are being installed . |
| 21 | of British Rail 's freight business originates in the north-west , is not it strange that British Rail has not talked to the majority of its users already about times and tariffs for the channel tunnel ? |
| 22 | That decision found in favour of St. Bartholomew 's and against British Rail , and has thrown some of British Rail 's funding calculations into a degree of confusion . |
| 23 | This accident , and the collapse of a railway bridge within the recent past in Wales , together with declining standards and quality of service , raise serious questions about the competence of British Rail 's management of the rail network in Wales . |
| 24 | But part of British Rail 's investment programme may suffer ; so may its passengers ' pockets after BR 's financial targets are reviewed later this year . |
| 25 | The electrification of one of British Rail 's busiest commuter routes has moved a step closer . |
| 26 | GRAFFITI lines the walls near Regeneration House , the headquarters of British Rail 's King 's Cross Project : ‘ The DPP was here . ’ |
| 27 | This week the borough council is set to grant permission for demolition work to begin on sheds and outbuildings which were once part of British Rail 's Motive Diesel site . |
| 28 | This week the borough council is set to grant permission for demolition work to begin on sheds and outbuildings which were once part of British Rail 's Motive Diesel site . |
| 29 | Russell , which appeared in the Journal of British Studies vi(2) 1966 , and ‘ The Population of an English Village -1086–1801 ’ by W.G. Hoskins , which was printed in his volume Provincial England ( 1963 ) . |
| 30 | Make sure that the doors you buy are fitted with safety glass to the requirements of British Standard BS6206 . |