Example sentences of "british have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE British have a reputation for not complaining . |
| 2 | ‘ Answer me one question : why do the British have a stick up their asses about any local British band that makes it in America ? |
| 3 | On Nov. 20 Strauss-Kahn blamed the outcome of the negotiations on the UK 's current presidency of the EC , describing it as " calamitous and claiming that " the British have a way of chairing the Community which puts us in difficulty facing the Americans " . |
| 4 | It 's sobering to note that while the British have a mass of facetious academics for each real intellectual , and hardly any big fat writers on the lines of the US , Angela Carter , at the time of Nights at the Circus , was both these things to a world-class degree . |
| 5 | ‘ The British have a law which allows them to deport people whom they consider to be undesirable aliens . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You British have a term for him . |
| 7 | We and the British have a lot in common . |