Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] the british " in BNC.

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1 In the same year in the UK the Review Committee on Education for Information Use , which was set up by the British Library Research and Development Department ( BLR&DD ) in 1974 , was recommending that :
2 Throughout the colonial period they made little use of the judicial system set up by the British and made few requests of their administrators .
3 Conciliation and compromise were other important indigenous principles that carried official sanction in pre-British times but which were not accommodated by the formal institutions set up by the British .
4 The structure turned out to be very durable ; most of the colonial constitutions set up by the British in the next three-and-a-half centuries show similarities to the Virginia Company 's way of doing things , though there were sometimes refinements , such as a legislative council created as an upper house to work with the assembly ; and in several cases — especially when the majority of the population was not of British descent — the legislative body was appointed rather than elected .
5 All important to the reputation of the company is British Standard 5750 , the quality assurance scheme set up by the British Standards Institute and to which Stoddard Carpets Ltd. , were awarded full registration two years ago .
6 Before setting off to the British circuits Stephen will take in the Enkalon meeting at Aghadowey on Easter Saturday , and at end of the season will ride in the Hillsborough Sunflower International .
7 " Over the years , the voluntary regulations controlling cigarette advertising grew stricter " , writes John Salmon , executive creative director of CDP These regulations , set out in the British Code of Advertising Practice ( the CAP Code ) run to seven pages in the 1985 edition .
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