Example sentences of "britain [prep] the second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were known as the Winant Volunteers , after John Winant , the US Ambassador to Britain during the Second World War . |
| 2 | ‘ The studio portraiture movement , flourishing in Britain from the second half of the 19th century until early 1960s , channelled many women into photography as a professional occupation … ’ says Val Williams . |
| 3 | The 24-year-old Iro picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in the second Test in Auckland in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly three weeks ago . |
| 4 | This is a rare device , not repeated elsewhere in Britain in the second century . |
| 5 | The Evangelical Charismatic Movement has been described by religious correspondents as the fastest growing part of the Christian Church in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century . |
| 6 | The first birds , usually males , arrive in southern Britain in the second half of April , arriving a little later further north . |
| 7 | People were totally amazed that , in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century , someone could be living in such materially deprived conditions , alone , with no water on tap and no electricity , on an income of barely £5 a week — and that she could rise above it with such dignity , inner tranquillity and gentle philosophy . |
| 8 | In Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century , for example , the highest-ranking bureaucrats were drawn from the land-owning class , while the bourgeoisie constituted the hegemonic class . |
| 9 | When , for example , historians began to prepare the official civil histories of Great Britain in the second world war , the records of twenty departments , some of which contained 2 million files , confronted them . |
| 10 | And there is a growing sense of horror at the treatment to which farm animals have been subjected in ‘ animal-loving ’ Britain since the Second World War . |
| 11 | National Drinkwise Day was organised against the background of statistics that show alcohol consumption per head has more than doubled in Britain since the Second World War , with alcohol abuse on the increase among the young . |
| 12 | Commercial interests were quick to recognize the scale of popular interest in the outdoors , but whilst the outdoors had become integral to everyday life in Britain by the Second World War , it continued to represent in some of its expressions a relatively uncommercialized leisure culture . |