Example sentences of "put britain [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Smith scorned Mr Major 's claims to put Britain at the heart of Europe . |
| 2 | English statesman and twice Prime Minister ( 1784–1801 and 1804–6 ) : ‘ the pilot who had weathered the storm ’ , DS 61 ; increased the tax on windows , OCS 28 ; sought to adopt a neutral attitude towards the French Revolution , but on France 's declaring war on England put Britain at the head of a powerful anti-French alliance , TTC iii 8 . |
| 3 | That put Britain into the lead and leaves the battle for the cup between Britain and the New South Wales team , as the Australian national side suffered several disasters . |
| 4 | ‘ Tory laws have put Britain in the dock alongside Chile and Korea and all those nasty dictatorships that everybody here despises , ’ he said . |
| 5 | The political ambitions of the CLB can be deduced from its interpretation of the Edwardian crisis : ‘ At so critical a period in British history as the present , when there is so great and unfortunate a tendency to slackness , ease , and carelessness as to religion , morals , and work , when there is so great a craving for pleasure 's sake , when so serious a social problem as the great army of the unfit and unemployed has become a national scandal and a public danger ’ , it was necessary to provide men of the future with ‘ that spirit of self-denial , self-control and definiteness of righteous purpose ’ which had put Britain in the lead among nations . |
| 6 | The central plank of your political philosophy — putting Britain at the heart of Europe and making sterling the Deutschmark of the Nineties — has collapsed . |
| 7 | Yesterday 's result means that he will be able to take on the Euro-sceptic rump in the Tory Party and put through the legislation that could put Britain on the road to a single European currency by the late 1990s . |
| 8 | If the protest , to be heard before today 's 25-mile inshore race , goes against Cyclone it will put Britain in the lead . |