How To Use British In A Sentence
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In my view his confrontational, gladiatorial style has been a major contributor to the widespread disdain of the British public for politicians generally.
Times, Sunday Times
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These observations will provide a valuable supplement to the simultaneous records of other expeditions, especially the British in McMurdo Sound and the German in Weddell Sea, above all as regards the hypsometer observations (for the determination of altitude) on sledge journeys.
The South Pole~ Remarks on the Meteorological Observations at Framheim
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There’s a town on the central coast of British Columbia called Bella Coola, B.C. that could probably use a little attention right now.
Blogging Batholiths Part 2 - The Panda's Thumb
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When asked to name their favourite dish, most shoppers opted for the traditional British favourite fish and chips over pizza, paella, or frankfurters.
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The decade following saw the first railway train arrive from the East, the first C.P.R. steamship anchored in port, the Klondike "boom," and the great mining industries of British Columbia well under way.
Canadian Cities of Romance
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Millions of passengers fly British Airways every year.
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A temporary export ban was imposed to allow time for a British buyer to match the price, but the attempt failed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Half are doing as well at reading, writing and arithmetic as white British pupils at primary school.
The Sun
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They propagated political doctrines which promised to tear apart the fabric of British society.
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Do you think the Academy is really hip to how great Gosford Park is, or do they just like it's patina of British upper-crust respectability?
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The most storied place to find Gaucho boots is Casa Fagliano, a hole-in-the-wall bootmaker in Hurlingham, which is a British suburb of Buenos Aires.
20 Odd Questions: Stephanie Phair
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These new forces have synchronized with the conscious policy of a certain sector of Canadian opinion which has persistently sought to detach us from that quarter of the world's orbit and the world's people comprised in the British federacy.
Whither Canada
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A British fleet defeated the French at Trafalgar.
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Such a cynosure, at least in aspect, and something such too in nature, though with important variations made apparent as the story proceeds, was welkin-eyed Billy Budd, or Baby Budd, as more familiarly under circumstances hereafter to be given he at last came to be called, aged twenty-one, a foretopman of the British fleet toward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth century.
Billy Budd
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On the evening of 24 May 1941, British lieutenant commander Malcolm Wanklyn, in command of the submarine Upholder, sighted an enemy troop convoy strongly escorted by destroyers off Sicily.
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British postal workers lag behind their continental counterparts.
Times, Sunday Times
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The country was administered by the British until very recently.
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The devaluation of the pound will make British goods more competitive abroad.
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Despite the apparent commonness of blonde hair, which accounts for a third of British women, Tobin said only about 3% were naturally blonde.
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British companies are subject to international laws and the same applies to companies in Europe.
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What Montgomery conceived was a one-two punch, a British blow followed by an American crack.
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The first two British charter jets picked up 413 refugees last night.
The Sun
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The British set up dedicated warning nets to detect the incoming V1s and then sent out interceptors.
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Number Ten Downing Street is the British prime minister's official residence.
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By 1939, it had 30 British bakeries and introduced low-price tea biscuits, previously a luxury only afforded by the middle classes.
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Whereas the British want to see children's faces light up with joy, those foreign johnnies prefer to scare the living daylights out of them.
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He is also considering exporting to Britain and developing own label products for the British multiples.
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Founded by the British in1781, it was called Stabroek while it was controlled by the Dutch and was renamed Georgetown in1812. Population, 78, 500.
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But then, the Tea Council represents the trade and 93 per cent of British cuppas nowadays come from bags.
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The handle on the German “potato-masher” hand grenade enabled it to be thrown far further than its British or American counterparts.
Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy
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Speaking to camera, the masked man accused the hostages of being spies for the British government and claimed that they had been abandoned.
Times, Sunday Times
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The relay offers an opportunity for millions of people to be directly involved in the games and celebrate the Queen's 50 years as British sovereign.
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The land forces are organised into British, Austrian and French divisions, all of which contain recreations of the original infantry, cavalry and artillery regiments that fought during the Napoleonic wars.
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By 1781, British General Lord Charles Cornwallis was ordered to march into Virginia to await resupply near Chesapeake Bay.
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To counter the offensive the British authorities began to recruit a special force for deployment in Ireland.
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It was in recognition of such distinguished services in the industry that Mr. Patel was awarded the ‘Order of the British Empire’.
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For many the sacrifice of British sovereign power was too great a price to pay.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tuition fees can't continue to rise in British Columbia without our eventually shooting ourselves in the foot.
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Hospital case notes are more voluminous than traditional British general practice paper records, which are normally maintained on small cards, named after the politician who introduced them more than 90 years ago.
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British air accident investigators were being sent to help with the inquiry.
Times, Sunday Times
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A British company with a history of taking on larger rivals says it owns six patents affecting software downloads.
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Details of how British electronic components have been found in roadside bombs were given to David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, when he visited British troops at their military compound at Lashkagar, in Helmand province, earlier this week.
Religion News Roundup — Islam: Music, Chess, and Sin
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There is a great sense of team spirit among the British Olympic squad.
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Disguised first as a horse dealer and later as a holy man, he successfully blarneyed his way through regions, which were not a part of British-held India at the time.
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According to Arfaan Khan, a British Pakistani linguist, a number of Hindi words such as chuddies are currently being imported from the Indian subcontinent.
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British summers mean we get rain, wind, sun, snow and frost all in the same week but our winters are just so glum, no blizzards just unrelenting dankness.
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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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Research carried out by the British Scientific Dining Association reveals that crapulence has bad effects on the memory and makes people slow-witted.
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The British Biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake introduced the concepts of Morphic Fields and Morphic Resonance in his revolutionary 1981 book A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation.
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It is enough to give the hardened British holidaymaker a complex.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a means of solving the problem British philosopher Karl Popper proposed the principle of falsifiability - if a theory is falsifiable, then it is scientific; if it is not falsifiable, then it is not science.
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Possession of these books allowed British ships or personnel placed ashore to read the signals being relayed by the semaphore stations, which frequently included operational tasking to French fleet units.
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The now not-so-young British artist is best known for his macabre installations, business savvy and yobbish personality.
Damien Hirst's Birthday: June 7 (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
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In reality the record suggests that it is rare for knowingly false accusations to be made against British troops.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing on the part of any of the British peer-to-peer lending platforms.
Times, Sunday Times
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He offered ten major paintings to start a national gallery of modern British art.
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In 1939, the yardangs in southwestern Egypt were termed ‘mud-lions’ by British explorer Ralph Bagnold.
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Moreover, I can't think of any other 'minority' of which this is remotely true, unless it were to be the other minority from which I can claim descent: people of British or Anglophile provenance.
Christopher Hitchens: Reinstate Rick Sanchez!
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Not all the speakers have couched their sentiments in complimentary language, indeed, it is a fact which we citizens of the Empire would be foolish to ignore that important sections of opinion among our American friends and elsewhere are rather suspicious of the British Empire.
The Empire In These Days
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The quality of the loose-leaf tea is critical to the success of the British tea party.
Times, Sunday Times
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Four British warplanes would also return to eastern Europe this year in an air policing role.
Times, Sunday Times
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In November 1875, Sir Frederick Evans, newly appointed hydrographer of the British Navy, ordered 123 doubtful islands banished from Admiralty Chart 2683 of the Pacific Ocean.
A Furnace Afloat
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The locals will have to stay resolute in the face of the invading British hordes, but it's hard to imagine they would ever be willing to swap chorizo and fino for burgers and beer.
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Ambassador Liu congratulated Baroness Warsi on her being a member of the British Cabinet as the first Muslim woman.
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Downing Street last night refused to discuss any British involvement.
The Sun
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He walked his audience through a litany of invaders: Mongol khans, Turkish beys, Swedish feudal lords, Polish and Lithuanian gentry, British and French capitalists, Japanese barons.
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For the British, however, it has all turned to dust, surrendered by the pusillanimous politicians.
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These hare-brained beliefs are hardly found only in the minds of the British upper-class.
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His reward for services rendered is to have been nominated as the new British ambassador to the US.
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The fourth class (officers of the British Empire and Lieutenants of the Royal Victorian Order) and fifth class (members of the British Empire and Royal Victorian Order) wear their respective badges on medal ribands or bows (women).
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Plus you will be amazed to see a scene stolen by a British Bourbon biscuit.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have something of a soft spot for early 1970s British bubblegum, and this is one of the best examples.
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It is up to you to decide whether sparkling stop-motion animation, catchy music, and a hearty dose of dry British humor is enough to overcome an uninvolving allegorical plot.
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Indeed, they would be under British operational control during wartime.
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In July he was arguing that the British should use their influence to make the Poles more amenable to German demands.
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James Joyce's view that the Irish view the British through the ‘cracked looking glass of a servant’ no longer pertains.
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Here was a beautiful British roadster offering huge performance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Programming will be controlled by the US and British military, but may include rebroadcasts from independent news outlets in both countries, the White House said.
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Americans tried to take part of British Canada in December 1775, when forces led by Benedict Arnold and Richard Montgomery unsuccessfully attacked Quebec.
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British influence, with wooden jalousies, wide porches, and patterned railings and fretwork, dominated urban architecture in the colonial period.
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It seems likely to do just that as a social barometer of genuine historical value that records everything from the British public's reactions to regional accents to the history of sudoku.
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There is a shortage of Olympic-size pools and most of these are run on commercial lines, so British swimming cannot afford priority access.
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Most visibly, it has transformed the British day out - you can't visit even the most two-bit town these days without tripping over its spangly new heritage centre or interactive museum.
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They were added to a red list of endangered British birds last year.
The Sun
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He put in a brilliant performance in the British Grand Prix.
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Debenhams, a British department store that has consistently combatted various techniques employed by the media, banned airbrushing in its 2010 swim and lingerie campaigns.
Marissa Lepor: Natural Beauty: A Lost Art?
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Other British athletes had missed two tests.
Times, Sunday Times
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Viv was British rugby's pre-eminent full-back through the 1930s, last line and top dog for Wales and the Lions, an Oxford double blue, a Glamorgan cricketer and, conspicuously, the first full-back ever to score a try in a Five Nations match – against Ireland in 1934.
Tons of reasons to support the monarchs of sport | Frank Keating
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The British saxophonist still leads the pack.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm going for the British bulldog.
The Sun
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The top police resignations that rocked the British Isles last week stem directly from Scotland Yard's uninterest in acting on this evidence.
A British Watergate?
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Utilitarian dressers are likely to have bought their garb from British Home Stores and the Co-operative Society.
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Contemporary British composer Nicolas Maw, no slouch at doing gnarly himself, was represented by "Music of Memory," a suite of mostly nontonal meditations built around a lyrical theme from a Mendelssohn string quartet that made several calming appearances during the piece.
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But the British Museum is refusing to back down and insists the chessmen are the highlight within the new Paul and Jill Ruddock Gallery of Medieval Europe.
Evening Standard - Home
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Jamaica, a member of the British Commonwealth, has a bicameral parliamentary legislative system.
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In the early nineteenth century, as earlier, most British working-class women made their families' clothes, from cotton calicoes for dresses and shirts, and from fustian for trousers and jackets.
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British Aerospace reckon that the plane will be commercially viable if 400 can be sold.
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The mother of a teenager killed during an argument about a dog has branded the British justice system a joke after his attacker was jailed for three years.
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Modeled after British roadsters, the Miata MX - 5 is less about muscle than about being a quick and nimble extension of you.
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I'm still worried that it implies that I'm the sort of crazy guy that stands in the pub quoting catchphrases from well-known British comedy programmes.
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By the way, if you're wondering about the British-ism in the first sentence, "skint" is slang for "broke," as in: got no money.
RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
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The second generation of immigrants often adopted British forenames.
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The Angles, Saxons, Danes, Frisians and other invaders intermarried with the existing Romano-British Celts, Romans, Jutes, Gauls, Greeks and Lombards.
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We'd like to exchange our home with that of a British family.
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It would have been a realignment of British politics.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many other sketches featured similar hard-men, many of them caricaturing the sort of psychopathic gangsters who would become prevalent in British films of the late 1990s.
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An automated alert went out to airports and main airlines, including British Airways.
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He also denied charges of manhandling the accused and not informing the British High Commission at New Delhi regarding their arrest.
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Newcastle Brown Ale is an outstanding performer in the British beer market.
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Just as French people enjoy their wine, so the British enjoy their beer.
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His passport had only been issued at the British Legation in Stockholm, and his description tallied exactly with the signalment issued by Scotland
The Days Before Yesterday
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The committee yesterday launched a scathing attack on British business for failing to invest.
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The Sabbatarian principle touched not only British religion but many social and economic practices as well.
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When, a few years later, Lord Elgin assented to the Rebellion Losses Bill, he established in Canada the practice and procedure of British parliamentary government.
Education and the Empire
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In fact, the British flacks have used their facade of congeniality and cooperation to spread some of the most blatant falsifications of the campaign.
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Unlike elected presidents, British prime ministers get where they are by being leader of the largest party in the House of Commons.
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Why not let a piece of fine British craftsmanship become the magic lamp that conjures up memories of this jubilee?
Times, Sunday Times
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He believed that British shipping was licensed and that the opium ships were vessels which had evaded licensing.
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George II was the absolute ruler of a medium-sized German state, Hanover, as well as being the British sovereign.
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The monarchy in England plays an important role in British culture.
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Video footage emerged yesterday of a British student introducing himself at a Colombian tribal ceremony just before taking a fatal dose of a hallucinogenic drug.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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In 1822 the British authorities instituted trading fairs to regulate and regularize what until then had been restricted trade.
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British gas have just billed me out of the blue for over £190 worth of Electricity for the past 2 years!
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JOHANNESBURG - South African police said they were searching for an alleged British mercenary freed on bail after being charged with the murders of two black men near Johannesburg.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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His swearing, lasciviousness and blackly comedic distortion of the word ‘spastic’ was nothing that most British youths haven't heard or employed themselves.
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The people were British in their manner, tea was had frequently and the evening meal was called tea, not dinner.
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The British fleet is now long gone from Malta: in 1979, H.M.S. London sailed out of Valletta harbour and the link between the Royal Navy and Malta came to an end.
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A group of British tabloid journalists were pelted with eggs by a French campaigner yesterday and pursued across the camp.
Times, Sunday Times
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Evidence of a recent softening of the British economy also could weaken tax receipts.
Times, Sunday Times
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When you were the defending champion the next year, you were criticized by the British press for showing up late to a function and acting like a boor.
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The Church of England has always taken pride in its "comprehensiveness" - a British tolerance for theological diversity dating to Queen Elizabeth I, who combined element of Catholicism and Protestant ism to form a "bridge" between the two traditions.
Pink Collars For Anglicans
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And thanks to 160 years of British colonial rule, these Hollywood hunks did not need translators.
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n. - kind of liliaceous plant; daffodil; Literature, flower of the Elysian fields. bog asphodel, British grass-like moorland plant. asportation
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The participants are middle-aged men in tweed hats that you might expect to see on a British gentleman farmer.
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Oswald felt heartfeltly sorry to wound the good Colonel's feelings, but he had to remark that he had only done his duty, and he was sure no British scout would take five bob for doing that.
The Wouldbegoods
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It has accepted sizeable donations from the financier as the party has campaigned heavily against the privatisation of the British health service.
Times, Sunday Times
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Shortly afterwards the Guardian, a British broadsheet newspaper, published the obituary of Cohn Osman, founder of Creative Camera.
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This combination of food is very good with spinach or British green beans.
Times, Sunday Times
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A British woman who tried to arrange the contract killing of her husband was jailed for five years on Wednesday.
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April 21 -- German troops in Kamerun have been forced by allied forces to retreat from the plateau in the centre of the colony; seat of Government has been transferred to Jaúnde; allied troops have forced a passage across the Kele River; British troops have taken possession of the Ngwas
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915
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After a year of construction and a weeklong postponement of the original opening date -- leaving die-hard fans champing at the bit -- Vivienne Westwood, the storied British fashion label, has finally opened its first U.S. store, on Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood.
Vivienne Westwood Opens First US Shop In West Hollywood
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He says he feels a special affinity with the south coast city where his British odyssey began.
Times, Sunday Times
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All of this was underpinned with ample confidence in the friendly disposition of much of the population-presumably loyalist at heart, simply waiting to welcome British military leaders to their hearthstones.
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The mortality on board some of the emigrant ships was terrible; and, whatever the cause, the deaths in _British ships_ enormously exceeded those in the ships of any other country. [
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines
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The Spanish media were still sniping at the British press yesterday.
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The weather was appalling, and German artillery made life unpleasant for the British.
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He said the word Sabah was not commonly used during British rule but that the Native Courts called the region negeri Sabah.
Undefined
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The subchloride of mercury, calomel, is the great British specific; the protochloride of mercury, corrosive sublimate, kills like arsenic, but no chemist could have told us it would be so.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882
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One of the most influential British indie groups of recent years have announced they are to split.
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After the war, he opposed peacetime conscription, denounced British neocolonialism, praised the United Nations, and criticized congressional isolationists.
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It's a British thing... as I understand it, "chav" is kind of similar to the American word "wigger" and is often used to refer to middle-class white kids who wear trainers and track suits and listen to hip-hop music.
Dave Smith Evolver gets handy upgrade
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In 1740, British Admiral Vernon (whose nickname was ‘Old Grogram’ for the cloak of grogram which he wore) ordered that the sailors’ daily ration of rum be diluted with water.
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At times it appeared as if the entire British comedy establishment was in attendance.
Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing
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British police say they believe Mr. Heselden died while testing an all-terrain equipped Segway and lost control and drove the machine off a cliff near his estate in Leeds.
Owner of Segway Machines Dies on a Segway
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Starring Dennis Quaid, it is the latest in a line of American sports movies to try their luck in front of largely uncomprehending British audiences.
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But some younger white South Africans, especially those from anglophone backgrounds with higher education, went searching for new identities, not least Australian, British, and Canadian.
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She could just have been saving herself for some British grub.
The Sun
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Hi Mercedes - they are similar to pancakes but are usually a lot smaller - pikelet is a common British term.
Sugar High Friday #32
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International politics were a formative influence on the British labour movement.
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During the war in the Crimea, the thinness of the British ranks soon became an embarrassment.
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Oborne regrets the 'loss of self restraint' and his intention is to recreate it, or rather to again 'ostracise' and 'thrust beyond the outer margins of debate' those who dare to speak out about the impact of Islam on the British way of life.
The British National Party
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Even the eighteenth century British art is looking strikingly exotic.
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Some items have survived in zoological institutes and natural history museums in Saint Petersburg, Stockholm, and Amsterdam, as well as in the British Museum in London.
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It is only one of the absurd rules in the system of law laughingly known as British justice.
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In contrast to the rowers and the cyclists, British swimmers seemed weighed down rather than buoyed by the roars of the home crowd.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another British rider, Bradley Wiggins finished ninth in the scratch race - his first competitive outing since winning three medals in Athens.
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A generation earlier, four uncles had gone to fight for the British Empire and also came home unscratched.
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As Diana Archibald has argued, station houses in the bush utilized spatial patterns unlike those found in a British town house or country home, thus necessitating new cultural practices and domestic routines.
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Mr. Lockhart shall furnish us with the brightest aspect a British Ferney ever yielded, or is like to yield: and therewith we will quit Abbotsford and the dominant and culminant period of Scotts life: It was a clear, bright September morning, with a sharpness in the air that doubled the animating influence of the sunshine, and all was in readiness for a grand coursing-match on Newark Hill.
Paras. 50-73
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… Compounding the headaches for warm-mongers is a probe being launched by the British Parliament into the Climate Research Unit e-mail scandal.
Think Progress » After warmest January in history, Vancouver airlifts in snow for Winter Olympics.
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The award-winning British play promises a salacious good time with its decidedly postmodern take on gender and sexual power relationships in the middle ages.
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I have an extremely low opinion of the British tabloid newspapers.
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Imagine children having tea, inevitably squabbling over the buns, teacakes, muffins and - this being a British expression - crumpets.
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More than 900 years of British history went up in smoke in the Great Fire of Windsor.
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Two weeks after his funeral she was asked to try out for the British bobsleigh team.
The Sun
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Ministers will be put under pressure to scrap the law that bans the eldest daughter of a British monarch from becoming queen if she has a brother.
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For decades the company was the bellwether of the British economy.
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They'll both end up with peerages for distinguished service to British football/fashion and people will laugh at their youthful misdemeanours.
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There was a hint of other ancestries, including Arabian, but thoroughbred moms most likely hailed from the British Isles, the researchers reported online in Biology Letters.
DNA analysis shows thoroughbreds have British as well as Arabian roots
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This one reminded me of Louise Bagshawe or one of the other British bonkbuster authors - quite European though it's set in LA and New York as well as France and revenge-oriented rather than Phillips' usual football-player types being thrust into situations with quirky heroines.
Archive 2009-04-01
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The only way to make them economically viable is to intensively rear British farmers in huge barns where thousands of them can be kept in semi-darkness and fed mashed up, infected sheep pellets.
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I'm doing BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting Sevice) next Friday at 1.30 pm, so if you know any squaddies, get them to tune in.
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The athletes are just happy to make the British team.
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The British Embassy refused to repatriate people not prepared to join the armed forces.
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Experts from both sides of the Atlantic will discuss battlefield tactics, the contribution of Loyalists and Native Americans, the role of officers, and the real reasons why the British forces failed to achieve victory.
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The first British attempt to colonize Ireland was in the twelfth century.
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A strike by British Airways ground staff has led to the suspension of flights between London and Manchester.
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The Seven Years War brought momentous British successes in the colonies and in Europe.
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Fifty three years ago India shook off the yoke of British imperialism and became independent.
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Earlier this year, a small study by U.S. and Chinese researchers in the British Journal of Nutrition suggested that flax seed-derived lignan (a natural plant-based compound) might modulate C-reactive protein levels in type 2 diabetics, especially among women.
Flax Seed: A Natural Alternative to Statins?
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Is it naively idealistic to imagine a British prime minister taking on such a Herculean burden?
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The British beef crisis was damaging to the livelihoods of thousands of people in the industry.
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Safe to say it felt rather more exciting than my experiences on British still water lakes.
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For British women pregnant with a daughter, the cost, pain and terror of a late term backstreet abortion in India await
Home | Mail Online
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British strawberries are at their best in September and our heirloom tomatoes are still great in October.
Times, Sunday Times
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Above all, his writings and his leadership made him the undoubted doyen of British railway historians.
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Four ships, including Dumanoirs Formidable sailed to windward of the British and exchanged shots with them as they passed, then sailed away from the battle.
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No one has done the double, won both the US and British Opens since 1982, since Tom Watson.
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An inland form of redband trout native to lakes in British Columbia is known as Kamloops trout.
Trout and Salmon of North America
