Example sentences of "[adv prt] a british " in BNC.

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1 This group , under the chairmanship of Dr Toni Eden , has been drafting standards for every service that is likely to be piped down a British cable system .
2 The ruling was said to be partly based on a case brought in a British court by a Maze prisoner who had alleged maltreatment by prison officers .
3 In the consultative document , the DTI proposes two courses of action : monitoring registration of branches at Companies House to ensure that the law is not abused by companies being incorporated in a lax jurisdiction to take over a British business ; or requiring branch accounts from overseas companies which conduct all or a substantial part of their business in Great Britain .
4 West Germany , in the event for the first time , bring four world champions to Hyde Park to take on a British team that has six silver and bronze medallists from the recent World Championships , as well as squads from Italy , the Soviet Union and France .
5 He has now set up a British company , Flyda Ltd , to exploit his invention .
6 So , when Caine told Peter Langan that he was interested in setting up a British restaurant along the lines of La Coupole , Langan found it an irresistible proposition .
7 1968 : MCA sets up a British operation .
8 Jack Walker and his brother Fred also managed to pick up a British record of £330 million for the sale of their stockholding business to British Steel last year .
9 Therefore , in 1905 , she set up a British section of the International Association for Labour Legislation , and soon , with the help of volunteer translators , was bringing out an English edition of its French and German Bulletin .
10 I asked while cutting up a British Telecom van — rather niftily I thought .
11 In 1933 he took out a British passport , falsely claiming his place of birth as Galway , Ireland .
12 CITES is also expected to back a British proposal for Appendix II listing of Turkish exports of winter daffodils .
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