Example sentences of "[conj] the british " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with the middle classes of Victorian England or the British colonials in India and Africa , one or two men working could maintain a large family in comfort . |
| 2 | By contrast , the French were far keener on President Reagan than the Germans or the British . |
| 3 | Your European hat , or the British one ? ’ she smiled a thin smile . |
| 4 | Its central belief , in the wisdom of the marketplace , was less than immediately applicable to the running of Kew Gardens or the British Museum . |
| 5 | More recent poll evidence ( e.g. for the British Crime Survey , or the British Social Attitudes Survey by Jowell et al . , |
| 6 | Any organization concerned with the promotion of books , such as the Book Trust , the Book Development Council of the Publishers Association , or the British Council . |
| 7 | There ai n't no sanity clause ! ’ ) , but the humour of the occasion is dampened by the fact that this maelstrom of accusal and refutation , doing nothing to enhance the good name of psychology in general or the British Psychological society in particular , involves the principle of confidentiality of psychological tests coupled with the issue of a man sent to prison for a crime that — perhaps — he did not commit . |
| 8 | ‘ Since neither the Canadian or the British governments are in a position to produce the element ‘ 49 ’ ( code name for plutonium ) or ‘ 25 ’ ( code name for uranium-235 ) our interchange has been correspondingly restricted by order from the top . ’ |
| 9 | A professional photographer 's livelihood is dependent on getting it right the first time and most are members of either the Master Photographers Association or the British Institute of Professional Photography . |
| 10 | The other 10 EC nations are determined to press ahead with the Maastricht Treaty on their own if either the Danes or the British fail to back it . |
| 11 | These two sorts of women seemed to belong to different species , being sisters only under their knickers , whether these came from Janet Reger or the British Home Stores . |
| 12 | In the 1940s , Communists ( though not Strachey who , by then , was switching his allegiance to the other superpower ) , looked to the Red Army to enforce the peace with the same uncritical admiration as nineteenth-century ‘ imperialist pacifists ’ had looked to the power or the British Navy . |
| 13 | It is [ he added , engagingly ] quite clear to me that an organisation … of this character is not something that can be handled by the ordinary … machinery or either the British Civil service or the British military machine . |
| 14 | You should also ensure that the product and the installer has approval certificates from either the British Standards Institution ( BSI ) or the British Board of Agrément ( BBA ) . |
| 15 | So look for a college which is accredited by CIFE or the British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education ( BAC ) . |
| 16 | The trouble began with the inability of the German Government to meet their reparations obligations , and with the intransigence of the French , much greater than that of the Americans or the British , towards giving them relief on politically acceptable terms . |
| 17 | These people have been described as being typically highly active , personified in individuals such as the successful business man or the British Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 18 | In the United States , and many other countries , " rug " is used to describe any item , regardless of size , whereas anything sold in Britain or the British Commonwealth is usually clearly identified either as a carpet or a rug . |
| 19 | Or the British academic , Philip Swallow and his American counterpart , Morris Zapp , in David Lodge 's Changing Places — " academics on the move , in the air , on the make " — who have exchanged the plate-glass , concrete jungle of Euphoria State University , USA , for the damp , red-brick University of Rummidge , UK ; or the unworldly dons of the 1987 television series , Porterhouse Blue . |
| 20 | Suppose you were in charge of the CIA , or the British Secret Intelligence Service , or Mossad : what would be your best way of getting rid of Saddam ? |
| 21 | The women were usually office cleaners or domestic helps ; sometimes they worked in rather poor neighbourhood shops for low wages , being unable to get work in the better city centre stores like Boots or the British Home Stores , where labour was unionized . |
| 22 | Pictures that could only have come from the Americans or the British , ’ Kragan answered warily . |
| 23 | Students of the " new group politics " often studied a single ( usually successful ! ) group in great detail — such as the Confederation of British Industry , the National Farmers Union , or the British Medical Association , or else they studied group activity in a particular issue — such as capital punishment , commercial television , rent control , or race-relations legislation . |
| 24 | So images of organizations that are more like symphony orchestras or hospitals or the British Raj are surely nothing more than metaphors to express a desired feeling of togetherness — the togetherness produced by a conductor 's baton , the shared concern of doctors and nurses for their patients , or the apparent unity of the British civil service in India . |
| 25 | By Aug. 24 , when the Security Council Military Staff Committee met , the USA had drafted a proposed resolution which would give UN legitimacy to the use of the necessary force to maintain a blockade , but which would leave the decision on such interventions to the naval command ( i.e. to the US Navy , in practice , or the British or French , since it was expected that those other countries which had contributed naval forces on a smaller scale would wish to avoid this controversial step ) . |
| 26 | The views expressed in it are , of course , entirely my own and do not necessarily represent those of The British National Bibliography Research Fund or The British Library more generally . |
| 27 | Some studentships for studies in the Humanities are awarded through the Scottish Office Education Department ( SOED ) or the British Academy . |
| 28 | In a sense both Marx , who hailed the British conquest of India and the American conquest of half Mexico as historically progressive at this time , and the progressive elements in Mexico or India , who looked to alliance with the United States or the British Raj against their own traditionalists ( see chapter 7 above ) , were recognising the same global situation . |
| 29 | The publisher who suffers an adverse judgment is not the only victim : the decision echoes down the corridors of the common law , until shouted down by the European Court or the British Parliament . |
| 30 | I promise faithfully not to call the police or the British consul or Interpol . |