Example sentences of "britain as the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Mr Ashdown has been projected in photo opportunities across Britain as the best leader the country will never have . |
| 2 | He saw the attachment to the Middle East by Britain as ‘ sentimental ’ , and wanted to redefine Britain as the easterly extension of a strategic area based in the USA , rather than a power looking eastwards through the Mediterranean to India and beyond . |
| 3 | President Izetbegovic , addressing a news conference later at the Dorchester Hotel , described Britain as the western country most opposed to lifting the arms embargo . |
| 4 | Heavily dependent on Britain as the main market for its goods , in the past it has devalued with us . |
| 5 | Whatever windfall profits might be earned from minor wars and international tensions , there was little doubt in the City that their interests lay in sustaining Britain as the free trading capital of a world-wide empire of finance , rather than retreating into the protectionist bloc envisaged by proponents of Imperial Federation . |
| 6 | In the minds of those who gave positive thought to it , the Commonwealth was to be an organization to which no one who was unwilling need apply , and in which those who had joined were to reach their decisions on the basis of consensus : the goal to be pursued was an uncoerced acknowledgement of Britain as the senior partner in a world-wide enterprise ; the position to be sought was the supremely equivocal but potentially supreme satisfying one of primus inter pares . |
| 7 | The rights and duties of individuals towards each other are together known as private law which in Anglo-Saxon countries , such as Britain and the United States , tends to derive from custom as incorporated by judges through time in what is known in Britain as the common law . |
| 8 | Survey reveals Britain as the old man of Europe |