Example sentences of "[prep] britain 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Britain 's entry into the Common Market in 1975 , trading links with the Commonwealth countries loomed much less large , as did defence considerations after the Wilson government withdrew Britain 's presence from ‘ east of Suez ’ in 1968–70 . |
| 2 | The outcome of the race , on handicap — and the NorTel Southern Cross Cup — was far from settled , although it is acknowledged that the New South Wales team will win after Britain 's Juno IV retired with a broken boom . |
| 3 | On 15 May , the day after Britain 's withdrawal , Transjordanian troops entered Palestine , taking up defensive positions around Jerusalem , the key to the central uplands . |
| 4 | It 's named after Britain 's last hangman and is SEVEN per cent proof … double the strength of your average beer . |
| 5 | TERRY Denison may quit as chief coach after Britain 's swimmers sank without trace here in Barcelona . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most apt comment , after Britain 's 5–0 defeat by France , the holders , in Bayonne , came from Tony Pickard , who said ‘ It was a tragedy that this match was n't begin shown on television back home ’ . |
| 7 | On the other hand , both the Thatcher and Major governments , especially after Britain 's entry into the Exchange Rate Mechanism in October 1990 , were prepared to discuss their attitude to EMU with some freedom . |
| 8 | In the wake of the impressive list of meetings that the Secretary of State will be attending for the remainder of this year , will he encourage the Security Council to have a special meeting , after Britain 's anticipated endorsement of the Van den Stoel resolution on the destruction of human rights within Iraq at least to ensure that human rights monitors are in south Iraq to protect the unfortunate Shias ? |
| 9 | Six years after Britain 's longest-running quiz show disappeared from our screens , a campaign has been launched to ’ bring back Bamber . ’ |
| 10 | Six years after Britain 's longest-running quiz show disappeared from our screens , a campaign has been launched to ’ bring back Bamber . ’ |
| 11 | Germany 's rate is now below Britain 's and that 's adding to pressure for a cut in rates here . |
| 12 | Despite Britain 's objections , a maximum 48-hour working week in the European Community was agreed upon by EC employment minister |
| 13 | I have little doubt , however , that , despite Britain 's reservations , our partners will move forward to economic and monetary union , and to the creation of a single currency . |
| 14 | With government examining policy towards Britain 's growing numbers of lone parents , this new paper discusses the issues and considers policy options . |
| 15 | Nor would it be a significant gesture towards Britain 's 2.5 million Moslem inhabitants , as he suggests , because those Moslems mostly come from the Indian sub-continent , and the Khalili collection has about as much connection with their material culture as a collection of French medieval art has with Czech baroque art . |
| 16 | Surely a far more significant gesture by the government towards Britain 's immigrant community would be a hefty grant for the proposed Indian museum in Bradford , which the V&A wants to create in order to display the nation 's holdings of Indian art , mostly in store since the closure of the Indian Museum in 1947 . |
| 17 | Some of these are already apparent following Britain 's entry into the ERM : the stoking up of inflation in the mid-1980s and the creation in the 1990s of a million or so extra unemployed , together with thousands of bankruptcies , can properly be ascribed in the main to priority having been given to a managed exchange rate . |
| 18 | Nor does it pretend to provide a detailed and exhaustive analysis of the condition of Britain 's pubs . |
| 19 | The myth-makers , with the tourist boards prominent among them , carefully ignore the fact that genuine historic quality has been lost forever from most of Britain 's pubs . |
| 20 | We had recently finished with the Douglas car company but wanted to keep the series topical and so developed a new setting in which our hero uses his amoral cunning to preserve part of Britain 's disappearing heritage ’ . |
| 21 | ( It will be remembered that he had studied drama at McGill , and the plays of Britain 's ‘ angry young men ’ had made waves in Canada . ) |
| 22 | They were so ubiquitous that grounded bodies used as sheds will be a feature of Britain 's farmyards for decades to come . |
| 23 | The future of Mar Lodge , which includes three of Britain 's five highest mountains , was also raised in an adjournment debate in the House of Commons by Labour MP Tam Dalyell . |
| 24 | The splendid open aspect in all directions probably accounts for the building of Britain 's highest Iron Age hill fort whose ramparts encircled the plateau . |
| 25 | My concerns were unfounded because Roland Smith has managed to select walks over 60 of some of Britain 's finest hill and high places which offer excellent viewpoints ranging from Quiraing on Skye to the Dorset Coast . |
| 26 | Ours currently extol the virtues of Britain 's response to the French Revolution ( £5 ) , remind us of our traditional relationship with Russia ( £10 ) , the danger implicit in teenage romance ( £20 ) and the importance of our architectural heritage ( £50 ) . |
| 27 | And Richard North looks at current provisions for the destruction of PCBs , and at the history of British involvement in a rather uncomfortable growth industry The security guard at the entrance to one of Britain 's mightiest hazardous waste disposal plants pressed a button and the gate opened . |
| 28 | Rechem , which runs two of Britain 's three plants equipped to incinerate PCB- contaminated wastes , says that local politicians take various approaches . |
| 29 | HAMMERSMITH in west London , home of some all too visible faceless architecture , has been chosen as the site of what promises to be one of Britain 's most remarkable buildings , an enormous office block designed on natural lines by the Royal Gold Medallist Ralph Erskine , Jonathan Glancey writes . |
| 30 | The London Borough of Hammersmith has previously rejected inspired schemes by at least two of Britain 's most interesting architects . |