Example sentences of "[that] the british " in BNC.
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1 | This is something that the British harp on that incessantly , using it as the main reason for choosing one restaurant over another , but do we really understand what it means and are we consistent in our assessment of perceived value ? |
2 | This somewhat idiosyncratic interpretation is no doubt coloured by the specificities of French history , yet there is little doubt that the British police system is also a political construction of the nineteenth century , created to contain the potential in the newly urbanized working classes for mob disorder , which the excesses of the military had seemed likely to exacerbate rather than disperse . |
3 | I AM pleased to bring the glad tidings that the British Guild of Beer Writers cricket team have at last won a match . |
4 | Perhaps it was hardly surprising that the British had a near-monopoly on both cable technology and signal equipment techniques . |
5 | One result was that the British were the world 's major communications operators . |
6 | Allowing for the conventions of sedate amenity that governed American reviewing ( as for the most part they still do ) , one can detect in the American reviewers of Eliot 's Poems ( 1920 ) and of The Waste Land ( 1922 ) the same recalcitrance that the British reviewers expressed more cheekily . |
7 | It was accepted that the British troops had used a substantial amount of violence and brutality to enforce the hand-over . |
8 | The party now offered ‘ the kind of socialism that the British people want'- defending the NHS , opposing poll tax and the erosion of civil liberties . |
9 | But is Mr Kinnock wise , having trimmed — having trimmed to a wiser policy , but all the same egregiously trimmed — is he wise to insist that the British people respect Labour for the changes it has made ? |
10 | If this explained Mason 's reluctance to pressure Biggs in the middle rounds , thereby allowing the American to pepper him with jabs , it can not obscure the possibility that the British heavyweight will always experience difficulty if required to take on a long contest . |
11 | On the economic front , the latest Dun and Bradstreet survey of UK business , carried out before last week 's increase in interest rates to 15 per cent , warned that the British economy was on the brink of a ‘ major slowdown ’ as high-interest policies produced a dramatic downturn in confidence . |
12 | But in France , Pierre Beregovoy , the Finance Minister , increased speculation that the British Government would have to make up its mind soon . |
13 | Another survey , by The Indy , the weekly paper for young people , found that the British teenager was happy at home and one in three did not want to leave the family nest . |
14 | They can not imagine him as a Prime Minister , and they can not imagine that the British public can be persuaded to elect him to that post . |
15 | THE FRIENDS of John McCarthy have been reminding the Foreign Office that the British Government is the only government without a single success in efforts to achieve the release of any of its hostages . |
16 | In Chapter 4 we recalled the well-established view that the British electorate came to rely more on television than the press from the late 1950s or early 1960s onwards . |
17 | Academic analysts are unanimous that the British press is highly partisan , even if it is less so than it was in the last century and even though proprietors are strongly profit-motivated . |
18 | Indeed , in 1978 there was some evidence that the British security forces , coupled with divisions amongst the Provisionals , were swinging the balance away from the IRA . |
19 | Nor could it be said that the British welfare system identified , or even defined , let alone assisted , the genuinely needy groups as effectively as did some systems prevailing elsewhere . |
20 | One demographic factor , much noted , was that the British , an old nation , were an increasingly elderly people . |
21 | She claimed that the British contribution to the budget was ‘ our money ’ which foreigners were taking away . |
22 | A notable feature of the resultant controversy was that the British Medical Association , the virulent opponent of Aneurin Bevan in 1946 , was now most forceful in defending the health service , in denouncing the government for threatening its existence and failing to fund it as was properly required . |
23 | But the record since 1945 suggests that it is highly improbable that the British people will play anything like the major role in the affairs of mankind in the twenty-first century that they have done so frequently , if often unavailingly , in the course of the twentieth . |
24 | Admirers claim that the Thatcher governments have vanquished much conventional wisdom of the 1970s , such as the idea that the British were ‘ ungovernable ’ , that the unions ran the country , or that there was a ‘ British disease ’ . |
25 | This article suggests that the British hoped to create an international civil aviation environment favourable to their interests , but were unable to do so because of American opposition . |
26 | Ambassador Winant reported from London that the British were increasingly uneasy over the fundamental difference in attitude towards international control that existed between themselves and the USA . |
27 | Berle offered the American objections to international control , insisting that the British proposals amounted to a 50–50 division of traffic on the North Atlantic route . |
28 | This scheme showed that the British intended to pursue a more centralized aviation service within the Commonwealth , very much at odds with the American ‘ open skies ’ policy . |
29 | This created something of a diplomatic flurry between London and Washington , as the Americans sought assurances that the British were not trying to sabotage their plans . |
30 | That the British eventually accepted the American view in most details shows that they had largely subsumed the aviation issue in the larger question of economic viability , and used aviation as a quid pro quo for the American loan . |