How To Use Britain In A Sentence
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On arriving in Britain she found herself to be a virtual slave to Dunlop, who exhibited her to curious Europeans who were eager to view Baartman's steatopygous buttocks and genitalia.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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These "Observations" were the first of a series of volumes by Gilpin on the scenery of Great Britain, composed in a poetic and somewhat over-luxuriant style, illustrated by drawings in aquatinta, and all described on the title page as "Relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
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Some archaeologists have been championing the culture of pre-Roman Britain for some time and the Shropshire road may confirm that traders were bringing back continental innovations to add to existing native achievements in art and engineering.
Letters: Native culture of pre-Roman Britain
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Britain's worst jail riot will force a fundamental reappraisal of prison policy.
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David Dimbleby is being lined up to lead the coverage from Britain, with the 6pm BBC news presenter, Huw Edwards, anchoring a special programme from New York.
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Britain has a window of opportunity to bring her coastline alive again.
Times, Sunday Times
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These days Britain's race laws are configured in Brussels.
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That's why I contend, with just a soupçon of exaggeration, that Britain's big choice will be made on May 29.
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Britain is no longer green and pleasant.
The Sun
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These cattle are one of the purest breeds in Britain.
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Would Britain be better off as a theme park?
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In Britain, one in every three marriages now ends in divorce.
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Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first woman prime minister in 1979.
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The "fruitily perfumed pineapple weed" that came to Britain from Oregon in the late 19th century and then began to spread throughout the countryside, Mr. Mabey says, "exactly tracked the adoption of the treaded motor tyre, to which its ribbed seeds clung" as if the treads were the soles of climbing boots.
Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling
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The only realistic way is to raise Britain's laggard productivity performance.
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Tyson pays his respects to the last guy who beat him and Britain's undisputed world heavyweight champion.
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We will actively support Britain's bid to host the 2000 Olympic Games in Manchester.
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in Britain they call a jimmy and jemmy
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The government cannot ignore Britain's chronic productivity and housing woes.
Times, Sunday Times
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MI5, Britain's internal security and counter-espionage agency, is to play a greater role in informing the UK public about terror alerts.
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If the government wants to regionalise Britain, which I have doubts about, they should say so.
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An alliance with Britain would offer no guarantees with regard to territorial integrity of the Netherlands in Europe.
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In Britain, the experience of the revolution had a liberating effect on people's minds.
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He is also considering exporting to Britain and developing own label products for the British multiples.
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Some of Britain's biggest coffee shop chains have signed up to a scheme to boost recycling of takeaway cups.
Times, Sunday Times
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Spain blockaded Gibraltar for most of the last third of the 20th century (they gave up in 1984) and when the Blair government in Britain negotiated a co-dominium with Spain in 2002, but the locals had to be consulted, and the referendum rejected the proposal by 17,900 to 187.
Eric Lurio: Thoughts on a Gibraltar Street Fair
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Today, pink wine sales are increasing in France and the United States, as well as in Britain.
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BRITAIN'S winter sports stars have been promised a funding boost after their joint record medal haul in Sochi.
The Sun
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From the late nineteenth century Britain and other European powers began to gain control of parts of the Ottoman Empire.
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All the other countries signed the agreement, leaving Britain out on a limb.
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Hospitals were told to charge patients who were found not to be resident in Britain or from countries with reciprocal arrangements.
Times, Sunday Times
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Staff have been told that the workload is unlikely to ease in the near future as there are 1,700 prison jobs across Britain that remain unfilled.
Times, Sunday Times
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one of his cardinal convictions was that Britain was not run as a democracy but as an oligarchy
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Britain's water companies are planning to meter water consumption.
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A famous bearer of the name was Publius Aelius Hadrianus, better known as Hadrian, a 2nd-century Roman emperor who built a wall across northern Britain.
Neth Space
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Traditionally young Asians in Britain have gravitated towards medicine, law and engineering.
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These issues are being played out in Britain because it has become the focus of this incendiary global conflict.
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Or did you snore your way through the biggest quake to hit Britain in 24 years?
The Sun
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This continued until war broke out and when war broke out, General Hertzog, again with his strong feeling of South Africanism, said, "While we do not wish to be disassociated from the British Empire, while we are willing to remain with the British Empire on the same footing as heretofore, we do not see why we should declare war now, why we should not maintain neutrality and the status quo, even though Great Britain go into war.
Racial Relations in the Union of South Africa
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Britain is facing a bungalow crisis as the demand for single-storey homes outstrips supply.
Times, Sunday Times
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Britain is heavily dependent on imports for its raw materials.
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Britain should improve its infrastructure to position itself for economic takeoff when growth finally does return.
Times, Sunday Times
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Britain has many admirers around the world, but who actually owns our green and pleasant land?
The Sun
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They arrived in Britain not long ago/recently.
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The Polar Race, which will last between 30 and 40 days, has been organised by two of Britain's leading modern day adventurers.
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Britain has an age-old tradition of Euro scepticism that goes back to well before the Second World War.
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And now some of the biggest banks on Britain's high street were under pressure.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is known that over 5,000 Sarmatians from this area came to Britain after the Marcomannic wars in AD 175; but it is unlikely that the people at Brougham were Sarmatians, as the latter inhumed their dead.
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German saboteurs plotted a wartime bombing campaign in Britain using exploding cans of processed peas, according to secret files made public for the first time today.
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Doctoral dissertation: " Secularisation and Christianity in Contemporary Britain".
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Increased Irish emigration to Britain during the 1940s supplied navvies, nurses, clerks, policemen and munition workers.
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After an exile of ten years her uncle returned to Britain.
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This loss in yearly disposable income would occur if Britain adapted a trading agreement which involved the loss of preferential trade links with the EU.
Times, Sunday Times
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Britain's only indigenous hare, the animals grow a white coat in winter to improve their camouflage in the snow.
Times, Sunday Times
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The disclosures last night provoked renewed condemnation of Britain's multibillion-pound arms industry for selling to both sides in the escalating Kashmir crisis.
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(Bush and Dr Cheney legacy), not just lock it up in cupboards. another inspiration for my writing is this innovative musician and activist fighting racism, Islamo-phobia and injustice head on through his "Rhythm and beats". although his documentaries and DIY cook book music genre are termed irreverence bordering treason against queen and country and glorifying terrorism among the Pakistani and Muslim youth of Britain, But it is merely exposing the truth about the sentiments of equality, discrimination, integration and assimilation.
Pak Tea House
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From a flurry of delighted children sledging down a snowswept street in Bath to policemen joining in with group of teenagers having a snowball fight in Poole - your pics are helping us capture Britain as it is swept by snow.
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This is an unprofitable business and it is not confined to Britain's biggest supermarket chain.
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Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega has said that relations between Britain and Spain "are those of allies and friendly nations", but she said Spain considered the visit "inopportune".
Well, diddums
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No other athlete in Britain has undergone such an exhaustive, globetrotting search for success.
Times, Sunday Times
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Great Britain finalised their preparations at Salford and will have today off in readiness for tomorrow's sell-out clash.
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The numbers of those on the waiting lists for housing has grown rapidly, as have the numbers of homeless in Britain.
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He was the last person in Britain sentenced to be publicly hanged, drawn and quartered.
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Spain is to move its clocks back one hour to be in time with Britain in a change that could sound the death knell for the siesta.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Derby winner Generous will be put to stud in Britain at the end of the season.
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European diplomats and Croatian officials also claim Britain is doing Washington's bidding.
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In Britain for the foreseeable future the ultimate purchaser of 80% or more of health care will continue to be the Treasury.
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In a series of calls, he made clear that Britain would retain the referendum option and that he did not want to prejudice next week's crisis talks at a Brussels summit.
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As Britain's largest country sports organisation, BASC is committed to providing training in the safe use of guns to young people interested in taking up the sport of shooting.
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In Ireland and Great Britain, sacred wells derive their distant origins from megalithic and Celtic times.
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This is far from being a work of mere trainspotting; in fact, in a strange way, it catalogues the architectural, social and economic history of modern Britain.
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With the exception of Jonathan Edwards, Britain had no chance of striking gold on track and field.
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As for the impact of popular culture, Kay says that the evidence isn't so much that TV levels out language, but that strong regional accents from all over Britain seem to be thriving.
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Britain emerged from this struggle in triumph, for the first time clearly dominant over her continental rivals.
WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativity and Exploration
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They made little headway popularizing Britain's unilateral nuclear disarmament, and the unilateralist tide lacked any consistent direction.
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Ray then spent thirteen years travelling around Britain and Europe collecting specimens and studying animals.
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Mugabe has blamed his country's woes on former coloniser Britain and other Western nations.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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No doubt that news will be received with considerable mirth in gyms throughout Britain.
The Sun
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When increased regulations made running the chatline more difficult in Britain, he simply chased business elsewhere.
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In France, industrial investment came first; in Britain, the Counterpart Fund was almost entirely used to pay wartime debts and re-float sterling.
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You're relaunching in Britain, withdrawing the weaker beer that was sold for years and introducing the stronger beer brewed in Amsterdam, which is the one familiar to Americans.
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The historical quaintness described at each river-side town the men pass glorifies the grandeur of a long lost Britain.
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It is as good as the spirit of their comrades in munition factories in Great Britain.
Defence of LibertyThere and Here
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The water rate is the payment in Britain for water when it is supplied to houses and factories and so forth.
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For the middle classes Britain meant business and they wanted constitutional change to prevent revolution not promote it.
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I remind the Minister that Gateshead is far from being one of Britain's most prosperous towns.
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There are two women in Britain who make her look the soul of discretion, refinement and good taste.
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Irvine and Martin have themselves developed a method of assessing the performance of some of Britain's most expensive scientific investments.
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The respondents were non-resident Indians based in Britain, Canada and US.
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And he rubbished the idea that people in Britain no longer go out.
Times, Sunday Times
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Public religious education has been an increasingly contentious topic in Britain.
Christianity Today
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The Servant is a savage indictment of the English class system, and its waning hold over all aspects of the working and cultural life of Britain.
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The worst thing about Britain is that so many people are disenfranchised by price and snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Figure 4.2 Net migration to the South from the rest of Great Britain, 1971-86.
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I then wandered down Whitehall, passed the great Offices of State, to view the Mother of Parliaments and ponder the fact that 70 years on Britain has a Government led by a Prime Minister never elected to that Office, who has refused to consult the People for fear they oppose him and happily transfered that once so precious prized sovereignty to a new European Superpower.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Although we were officially the London helpline, we got calls from all over Britain and from all over the world.
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The blood tests which snared three drugs cheats at last month's Winter Olympics could be missing from the anti-doping programme throughout Britain this year, including the Commonwealth Games.
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The gilded silver pinhead, styled in the image of a bird of prey, is one of a handful of examples discovered in Britain and will go on display in London.
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Since the population of adult males in Britain is many million, there are obvious savings to be made using these techniques.
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General Household Survey data indicate that the major provider of care for the elderly in Britain is the family.
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Some few of these ships had catapult-launched Hurricane fighters - the nearest equivalent to the suicidal Japanese kamikaze planes that Britain ever had.
San Andreas
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Nineteenth-century Britain was a class-conscious society.
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The bicycle reigned supreme as Britain's most popular mode of transport.
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Britain's worst oil-related disaster was the 1988 explosion and fire on the North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha off the Scottish coast, which killed 167 riggers.
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This will be a unique opportunity to see this fascinating film and its first screening in Britain.
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One of the greatest surprises recorded by the survey is the recolonisation of Britain by the 13-spot ladybird, which was once considered extinct here.
British ladybird species struggling to compete with alien invaders
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However, Jenkins said demands for reburial were now coming from minority groups in Britain, including pagans and druids, while Manchester consulted the group Honouring the Ancient Dead, which campaigns for reburial of pre-Christian British remains, before removing the Worsley Man head.
Museums avoid displaying human remains 'out of respect'
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The bicycle reigned supreme as Britain's most popular mode of transport.
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Labour backbenchers are confident the last tally-ho will soon echo across Britain's countryside.
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Luxembourg sketched out an acceptable compromise between Britain, France and Germany.
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It condemned in extremely strong language what it called Britain's iniquitous campaign.
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Selling insurance overseas is Britain's largest invisible export .
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They will need a good showing to put themselves back in contention for a place in Britain's Olympic squad.
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Therefore, to excise it would not imply any reversal of Britain's opt-out.
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Yet the vast majority of the unknown number of illegal migrants living in Britain are overstayers; that is people who entered Britain legally as visitors, to work, or as students, and failed to go home again.
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The euro zone's long-term woes are arguably greater than Britain's, and its inflation less rapid.
'Dear Chancellor'
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This disgusting spectacle provides a revealing insight into the debased nature of what passes for political discussion in Britain today.
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Britain's royal family took their traditional public Christmas Day stroll to and from church on Friday, with one well-wisher receiving a hug and a kiss from Prince William.
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The Fife coast harbours many insects which are rare elsewhere in Britain.
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Britain is importing nearly half the fruit and vegetables it consumes each year, according to previously unreported government figures.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sparsity of population in some rural counties of Britain can create considerable problems for bus operators.
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Britain has consistently refused to extradite terror suspects to any country, including America, that has the death penalty.
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Illiteracy threatens Britain's industrial performance. But, quite apart from that, the individual who can't read or write is unlikely to get a job.
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Britain should therefore not hesitate to use whatever powers and diplomatic skills she possesses to ensure that it does not come about.
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At the time, Britain exported industrial goods and imported agricultural ones.
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The hoped-for economic recovery in Britain did not arrive.
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This year there will be around another 500 free screenings all over Britain.
The Sun
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Community and self respect must be returned to the underclass or there will never be enough social workers to prevent this underside of Britain festering.
Archive 2007-11-18
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Britains, Scots, and Picts following the chase without order or araie, so that by reason the Romans kept themselues close togither, the
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8)
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By the term heptarchy is understood that complexus of seven kingdoms, into which, roughly speaking, Anglo-Saxon Britain was divided for nearly three centuries, until at last the supremacy, about the year
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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Thousands of sunseekers flocked to Britain's south coast on Sunday to enjoy the last remnants of summer.
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In 1800 Ireland's population was nine million, compared to Britain's 16 million.
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When the notion of Santa Claus arrived in Britain, the same ladies would dress up as the bearded gent to visit poor homes with a toy for each child.
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Like Britain again, it looks outwards from Europe as well as inwards, which is why Turkey is also part and not part of the Middle East too.
Disgracefully, Turkey's EU accession bid is going nowhere soon
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Polls and complaints to the BBC about coverage before the event showed an unexcited nation, he said, adding: The public holiday blows a hole in the idea that the wedding will be an economic boost for Britain.
Royal wedding prompts surge in foreign holiday bookings
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Britain has to pursue policies in concert with other EU members.
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This is now arguably the best place in Britain to be studying astronomy and cosmology.
Times, Sunday Times
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The company recently reassured investors that it could shrug off any cuts to education spending in Britain.
Times, Sunday Times
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Exchange of notes between the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the government of the Arab Republic of Egypt concerning ...
Obama Speech: Pundits Erred; People Got It Right
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Piff, and Mrs. Sniff, was unanimous opposed to her going; for, as they says to Our Missis one and all, it is well beknown to the hends of the herth as no other nation except Britain has a idea of anythink, but above all of business.
Mugby Junction
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RULERS OF EGYPT (1811-1953) Egypt remained nominally a province of the Ottoman Empire until Britain declared it a protectorate in 1914, but from 1805 it followed an increasingly independent course of development as a separate country.
E. Egypt
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September 13th, 2009 MICHAEL CAINE is calling on the U. K.'s leaders to reinstate national service in an effort to clean up the streets After shooting his new movie, Harry Brown, in London's most troubled neighbourhoods, Caine fears crime and drug use is out of control in his native Britain - and the government needs to do something drastic to stop youngsters from killing one another.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
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The system in Britain is not as dominated by plea bargaining, but it is certainly present.
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She is one of Britain's best prospects for a gold medal.
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the doctrine of the divine right of kings was enunciated by the Stuarts in Britain in the 16th century
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Top be honest I was a little bit tired, I suppose every one of us on the Great Britain team was, but we were all ready to give it a bash again.
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Britain's teenage rampage looked tame.
Times, Sunday Times
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Peter Melchett, policy director of the Soil Association and Britain's most famous crop trasher, who famously pulled up six-and-a-half acres of GM maize in 1999, says that £20m of taxpayers 'money has gone into GM crop research since 1997, despite the fact that not a single crop is grown in the UK.
Just because GM is gaining popularity doesn't make it right
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Britain has reached a crossroads.
Times, Sunday Times
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Britain cannot continue indefinitely to spend more than she is earning without higher taxes or higher interest rates - either of which will harm our economic prospects.
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And then, of course, there was the skill, the accumulated knowledge and ingenuity, behind dyeworks and glassworks, not to mention ships less frail than they looked, since in the future they would ply as far as Britain ....
Time Patrolman
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In Britain many were based on parish churches or, especially, Nonconformist chapels; the celebrated Huddersfield Choral Society was founded in 1836.
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The West Country is the part of Britain most visited by walkers and nature lovers, but until now they have had to make do with a patchy network of footpaths and coastal walks.
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Britain's Prince William, right, shares a traditional "hongi" greeting with Maori elder Sam Jackson upon his arrival to officially open New Zealand's Supreme Court, in Wellington, New Zealand, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010.
Fore, right!
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Scottish & Newcastle's production is already near full-capacity in Britain, producing approximately 16 million hectolitres of beer each year.
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In Britain the upper chamber or parliament is the House of Lords, the lower the House of Commons.
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For many on the right in the UK, Atlanticism has become synonymous with a self-defeating, virulent Euroscepticism that is bad for Britain.
Labour: UK should integrate key defence decisions with Europe
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The government cannot ignore Britain's chronic productivity and housing woes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not for a generation has Britain faced industrial militancy intended to bring down an elected government.
Times, Sunday Times
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Britain's great graffiti artist comments anonymously from the depths of his grey hoodie.
Times, Sunday Times
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By contrast, the literature on Britain appears to be surprisingly slim and tends to make repeated reference to the same or similar lists of crimes and cases.
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BRITAIN'S business leaders were cheered yesterday with a triple whammy of bright economic news.
The Sun
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It was once Britain's default shopping destination for expectant mums and doting grandparents.
Times, Sunday Times
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Medieval Britain inherited around 10,000 miles of Roman road, combined with an extensive network of trackways following less clearly defined routes.
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BRITAIN'S air pollution monitoring network could be dismantled under government plans to remove the obligation on councils to produce detailed reports on local air quality.
Times, Sunday Times
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They believe that a fundamental change in the governance of Britain is the key to all other necessary changes.
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There are 400,000 property millionaires in Britain.
Times, Sunday Times
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The idea of henges dotting ancient Britain is reinforced by the discovery of the so-called "Seahenge," a remarkably well-preserved timber circle, on
New Stones at Avebury
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In Britain, cervical Papanicolaou's smears are performed every five years and do not necessarily include bimanual examinations.
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The 44 eminences charge that Britain's apparent lack of transparency and accountability threatens to undermine whatever moral high ground there is left.
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Britain's balance of payments improved modestly last month.
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BRITAIN'S lousy spring weather has seen the price of suncream tumble by up to 8.5 per cent, figures showed yesterday.
The Sun
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War had resumed on the continent in 1805, though the period of peace with Britain had ended even before the Empire was proclaimed.
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Britain's growth rate has rarely exceeded that on the continent by more than one percentage point.
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An administrative error has been blamed for robbing Bradford of the title of Britain's curry capital - to the fury of its restaurateurs.
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The town has another curiosity - the farm shop, which has ballooned into Britain's poshest supermarket, complete with wicker trugs instead of shopping trolleys and quails' eggs by the dozen.
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Last year the head of the Army, General Sir Richard Dannatt, warned that a lack of public appreciation for Britain's military effort in Iraq and Afghanistan was in danger of "sapping" the willingness of troops to serve on dangerous operations.
Archive 2008-05-01
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QE may appear to the coalition to be a more politically palatable way of addressing Britain's economic woes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Britain produces 20 million tonnes of household waste each year.
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Her sprawling, comic epic about multi-ethnic Britain, which uncovers a wonderland of magic realism in the London subtopias of Cricklewood Broadway and Willesden, beat a strong shortlist of four other books, all by American writers.
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Hunters claim that there are upwards of 90 edible mushrooms and other fungi found in Britain.
Food Watch
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For the less instinctively integrationist countries, and in particular Britain, this was all too far and too fast.
Zero-Sum Future
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Text messaging, which allows blocks of text up to 160 characters long to be sent, has been a huge success with 50 million being sent in Britain alone every day.
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To prepare for the listing, it was created as a holding company for the assets and its domicile moved to Britain.
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Dad's Army told us that in Britain, thank heaven, nothing worked like clockwork.
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Between 1936 and 1969 maritime air operations in Britain were under the control of Coastal Command units.
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Privatisation and gimmickry are not the answer to improving Britain's rail service.
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Critics, TV executives and its devoted audience raved about the show, making it seem more influential in Britain than perhaps it really was.
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If that does not happen, it will be bad for him, worse still for Britain, and even worse for the world.
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It is possible to acquire a new domicile of choice, if you have left Britain permanently.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first beavers could arrive in Britain by autumn and would be released after six months in quarantine.
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Britain is currently leading a group of countries blocking the working time directive's mandatory 48-hour week.
Times, Sunday Times
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From cotton spinning to pattern cutting, the skills are there to make in Britain.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead, after a deal was stitched up with the big unions, the conference voted for a statement from the Labour National Executive which linked Britain's eventual withdrawal of troops to the return of democracy in Iraq.
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She would like to see the return of the death penalty in Britain.
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Back in October already, Chinese commentaries remarked on the financial crisis as being the chief reason for Britain ceding its long-term regard of China as Tibet's "suzerain" and recognizing it as its "sovereign".
IPS Inter Press Service
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Britain's productive capacity was falling more rapidly than at any time since the dawn of the industrial age.
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The West, from Rome to Britain, was called into action; the kings of Poland and Bohemia obeyed the summons of Conrad; and it is affirmed by the Greeks and Latins, that, in the passage of a strait or river, the Byzantine agents, after a tale of nine hundred thousand, desisted from the endless and formidable computation.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Both were returning home after exploring the possibility of establishing their wireless systems in Britain.
SIGNOR MARCONI'S MAGIC BOX: The invention that sparked the radio revolution
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Both the United States and Britain insist that, to keep the country from imploding, it is essential that the Balkan nation remain under the political authority of an internationally appointed "High Representative," who governs the nation's affairs.
Elmira Bayrasli: Electing an Independent Bosnia: The High Representative Must Go
