Example sentences of "the british [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glen Sutcliffe , a consistent performer on the British competition circuit ( photo |
| 2 | An overwhelming difficulty with the Baxter proposals for King 's Cross is that they make no provision for any improvement to Network SouthEast 's Thameslink cross-London services , which is an essential element of the British Rail plan . |
| 3 | The disruption of train services during the work would be on a much greater scale than under the British Rail plan . |
| 4 | As smoke billows around the yellow flask holding 200 radioactive nuclear fuel rods , the British Rail driver raises the alarm by phone.But both phone lines to Gloucestershire Fire Service are engaged . |
| 5 | Cuts have already begun to as the British Rail cow has fattened up . |
| 6 | For many years he has been the Fund Raising Organizer for the British Rail Support Group , Condover Hall School for the Blind , a position he still holds . |
| 7 | The British Rail route failed on all three . |
| 8 | He said that a final decision would follow more detailed studies by Union Railways , the British Rail subsidiary which was formed to develop the tunnel link project . |
| 9 | But instead of waiting on the same platform for an Edgware train , they made their way up to the British Rail terminus , and in the men 's lavatory the bear got into his bear suit . |
| 10 | This is an extremely ambitious programme of events to be organised by any Preservation Society , in recent years using the British Rail main-line , plus main-line steam locomotives providing the excellent opportunity to travel on this little used steam route in Warwickshire . |
| 11 | Now and then I hanker for a good solid ham-and-tomato sandwich of the British Rail variety , but not too much . |
| 12 | Well we lost sixty thousand pounds on the British Rail Station enquiry for example |
| 13 | And the British Rail Board stalled for four years , before admitting there was no evidence . |
| 14 | My Lord in making my main submissions to your Lordship , erm , I submitted and this is position that there is no distinction between public and private acts , in the British Rail Board both the act and the central fund byelaw should be taken as valid in the interim if your Lordship is minded to make a reference , unless strong evidence of invalidity is , so your Lordship if you make a reference it needs to form a view as to the strength of the |
| 15 | Mr Parkinson is coming under heavy pressure from competing private consortia to approve an alternative route to a new terminus at Stratford in east London , which they say would be cheaper than the British Rail scheme to Waterloo and King 's Cross . |
| 16 | The British Rail scheme would certainly cost less than the old plan as it now proposed a single-track tunnel , not a twin tunnel . |
| 17 | He was meeting the British Rail chairman , Sir Robert Reid , this morning to discuss prompt implementation of the 93 recommendations . |
| 18 | The British Rail chairman , Sir Bob Reid , said last night : ‘ We have contacted Mr Knapp for urgent discussions and BR management are meeting him tomorrow with a view to finding a way through this so that we can avoid disruption to passengers . |
| 19 | The reason why we 're having to go to a higher figure now is there are two major areas of land , er one is the land behind the railway station , the British Rail land , and the other is the land at a a location called St Nicholas Field , a former household waste site , both of which we are taking steps to bring forward for development . |
| 20 | Vintage buses will take visitors between Leicester London Road station and Beal Street , adjacent to the British Rail depot . |
| 21 | A buffet menu on the Paris to Cologne express is priced in six currencies , while the British Rail equivalent comes in just one sterling — and in just one language — English . |
| 22 | True also that property questions had already been separated off from the main business , to be handled by the British Rail Property Board ( also on a regional basis , but with somewhat different geographical areas from those used by the operating regions ) . |
| 23 | This year 's top awards went to the Tramway Museum Society at Crich , Derbyshire for their work on the rebuilt cast iron span of the Bowes-Lyon bridge , the British Rail Property Board and Craft-Kind Ltd for the Cathedral Arches pub and restaurant conversion in Salford . |
| 24 | The unused viaducts — all listed buildings — are among 50 redundant structures being advertised by the British Rail Property Board , hoping to attract interest from wealthy enthusiasts or environmental groups and is offering £70,000 contribution towards initial maintenance costs . |
| 25 | A RAILWAY leasing plan may form part of the British Rail sell-off . |
| 26 | Mr Major 's troubles deepened as he consulted the Government 's business managers about the threat of a new Conservative revolt over the British Rail sell-off plan at the start of a two-day Commons debate . |
| 27 | And then the moment of truth as the eager new recruits take the controls and move off down a half-mile of track alongside the British Rail line . |
| 28 | We will permit access by private operators to the British Rail track network . |
| 29 | Which is more than can be said for the album sleeve of the new ACR album , which has caused unheard-of dissent at the offices of British Coal who claim that the artwork looks too much for comfort like the British Rail Freight logo and are threatening legal action . |
| 30 | The Government must be pressed to accept the British Rail view that the link is needed within the next six or seven years . |