Example sentences of "britain [unc] [noun] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's debt to Europe |
| 2 | He declared : ‘ Under the Conservatives , Britain 's attitude to Europe has been confused , suspicious , reluctant and ambivalent . |
| 3 | On another occasion he publicly told the wife of Britain 's ambassador to France that she was ‘ not fit to be an ambassador 's wife ’ . |
| 4 | At the last , Britain 's ambassador to Constantinople abandoned the encouragement he had been giving the Turks and advised them to go on negotiating , but by this time neither Britain nor France was in a position to withdraw the backing which they had been giving the sultan . |
| 5 | The Festival also plays a role in the artistic renaissance of Birmingham , a profile confirmed by the continuing success of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra , under its Artistic Director , Simon Rattle , the recent move of both the Birmingham Royal Ballet ( formerly Sadler 's Wells Royal Ballet ) and the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company to Birmingham , the newly launched ‘ Towards The Millennium ’ annual arts Festival and the Arts Council of Great Britain 's invitation to Birmingham to launch Arts 2000 , as the UK City of Music in 1992 . |
| 6 | ( Sir William Hamilton , Britain 's envoy to Naples , was once deeply involved in this pillaging , giving most of his acquisitions to his wife , Emma , better-known as Nelson 's mistress . ) |
| 7 | The press called her Britain 's answer to Marilyn Monroe . |
| 8 | No wonder boss Jim Driscoll — who invented the Shoe People and set up the company — is being dubbed Britain 's answer to Walt Disney . |
| 9 | The poem is , of course , about Britain 's answer to Disneyworld … |
| 10 | Is Kenneth Branagh Britain 's answer to Woody Allen ? |
| 11 | Artrageous ! , which is to be given a six-week pilot run , will be presented by 22-year-old Jason Rebello , a boy wonder jazz pianist who is Britain 's answer to Herbie Hancock . |
| 12 | By 1962 — the critical year of decision — it had become bound up with high politics ( rupturing a prestige Anglo-French collaborative project was not the best way of smoothing Britain 's path to EEC membership ) and the phenomenon of imperial surrogate whereby hi-tech enterprises became a substitute and a consolation for loss of empire . |
| 13 | King George V had been very grieved at the outbreak of the Great War , which he would have liked to avoid , but Britain 's commitment to Belgium made that impossible , and in 1917 he decided to change the royal ‘ House ’ name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor . |