Example sentences of "britain from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | CONVICTED wife-killer James Rudman today was expected to be extradited to Britain from the Irish Republic . |
| 3 | Figure 3.12 The spread of the habit , in tits , of opening milk bottle tops in Britain from the first record in 1921 near Southampton until 1947 . |
| 4 | It was easy to make fun of , and it was no wonder that Conservative Central Office had a field day , distributing a compilation of green policy statements , including the unrealistic ones on replacing the EC with a ‘ loose federation of ecological countries ’ and disengaging Britain from the international money market . |
| 5 | Fewer settled in Britain from the European Community and the Americas . |
| 6 | Costing about £150,000 , the exhibition traces the development of trams in towns and cities throughout Britain from the Victorian era . |
| 7 | The point , though Hurd did not put it this way , is that Labour 's amendment 27 , seeking to scupper Major 's triumph in excluding Britain from the social chapter , was a complete red herring . |
| 8 | The Labour leadership is under pressure from its own MPs to vote against the bill on third reading because the Maastricht Treaty exempts Britain from the social chapter . |
| 9 | The amendment seeks to delete the protocol that exempts Britain from the social chapter and , if selected for debate , could muster sufficient support from Tory rebels to blow a hole in the legislation . |
| 10 | Mr Smith , a Northampton headmaster , has been involved in bringing hundreds of refugees to Britain from the Yugoslav war zone . |
| 11 | Or can a more positive interpretation be sustained , with France emerging as a close rival to Britain from the eighteenth century onwards ? |