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Simple sentences
Where is the British embassy?
American English isn't better than British English.
Were you born in England? You don't seem to have a British accent.
Between 13th and 15th February 1945, British and American bombers fire bombed the city of Dersden, Germany. These action were later deemed a war crime.
Fifty-two per cent of British women prefer chocolate to sex.
British people are used to standing in queues.
Pocket calculators are as cheap to buy as a pair of socks, and as essential to thousands of British school children as a pencil and eraser.
That is what the British people expect of their Queen.
Kenya used to be a British colony.
The British Parliament is divided into the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
British English differs from American English in many ways.
British soccer fans sometimes get completely out of hand.
British and Japanese cars have steering wheels on the right side.
Just as the Americans like baseball, the British like cricket.
Can you take us to the British Museum?
The Japanese eat more beef than the British do.
Japanese and British people usually wait at a bus stop in a queue.
At one time Nigeria was a British colony.
Because of its origins, Canadian English has features of both American and British English.
This is an instance of modern British life.
And as with so many aspects of British life, there's a good historical reason for it.
There are some differences between British English and American English.
The United States was once part of the British Empire.
I never go to London without visiting the British Museum.
Movie subtitles
The West's ascendancy was perfectly symbolised in June 1 842, when British ships sailed up the Yangtze to the Grand Canal in retaliation for the destruction of opium by a zealous Chinese official.
China had to pay an indemnity of 21 million silver dollars, cede the island of Hong Kong, and open five ports to British trade, including this one.
This is one of the great outposts of British penetration of Asia - the Shanghai Bund.
You're small, but you got those British-nanny-sized boobs.
British nanny. Hello, guv'nor.
A good, clean, honest whack over the 'ead with a brick is one thing...something British about that.
What you see here is an ordinary top hat, an original British top hat.
Well, it seems to me that that box we dug up today, with the very peculiar gentleman, over there, is the only find we've made in the past two months that'll bring this expedition any medals from the British Museum.
The British Museum works for the cause of science, not for loot.
It's the British lion in honor of Lord Ferncliffe.
Can you get the British Consul for me on the phone?
British Consul?
Excuse me. er. can you tell me if the British Consul's in town today?
I also add, ladies and gentlemen, before retiring. that Mr. Memory has left his brain to the British Museum.
We're dealing with religions fanatics! We have to dominate them, or they'll drive us out and the British will take our place.
British institutions.
Strong northwesterly gales all coasts of the british isles.
Surely you will have no objection if I wire the British embassy?
In May 1933, when Karloff returned from England, where he had been on loan to Gaumont-British for The Ghoul, he was still set for the starring role in The Invisible Man.
There are many British players in this film, most from theatre, both in England and America, and some who arrived in Hollywood after the introduction of sound.
Born in Wales, Clive was a master of the various dialects of the British Isles, and toured extensively in the provinces after taking up a stage career at the age of 22.
In the British Army in France during World War I, Rains was subjected to heavy artillery bombardment and poison gas.
Then came the British Invisible Dog in 1910. The Light Unseen in 1914 featured an invisible scientist.
The British actor playing the chief of police is Holmes Herbert.
This policeman is played by Monte Montague, an American, who speaks here with a British accent.
But based on items in the files of the British Film Institute Rains was eighth billed and played a drunken loafer who, while applying for a job, gives some revealing and dramatic information about the leading character.
The eminent George Bernard Shaw personally chose him to star opposite Vivien Leigh in the British production of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, released in 1946.
Do you have any idea how we might get in touch with someone from the British Government?
When was Crippen hanged? Who was the last British heavyweight champion of the world?
I'm a British subject.
He held high rank in Washington's army. And proved his patriotism by selling military information to the British.
That's how the British should do it.
You're being offered to take the service training course and be a part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
I am so glad to see here today you men from the British Isles along with our Canadians you men from loyal Quebec from the great plains of Manitoba and Saskatchewan from British Columbia in the far west and from all other provinces.
The British lion will drink his tea. from saucers made in Germany.
We're certain, the bullet found in his body came from a British service revolver.
Yesterday, the British landed someone here by parachute.
They look British.
News and current affairs
In addition, after visits by the French, British, and German foreign ministers, Iran announced a temporary suspension of its enrichment program.
But British policy towards the EU has often led to worse rather than better relations among member states.
Many Europeans are sick of British vetoes.
It is on this basis that British Conservatives oppose the proposed constitution.
Any proposal for a new constitution must be put to the British people and to the people in each EU member state.
The British government recently issued the most comprehensive study to date of the economic costs and risks of global warming, and of measures that might reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in the hope of averting some of the direst consequences.
The insurgents in Iraq, as the British admit, were able in just three years to cope with their enemies' technological superiority in a way that the IRA in Northern Ireland was unable to do in 30 years.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has declared that the two issues at the center of the G-8 Summit this July will be African poverty and global climate change.
Elgin sold them to the British government, which put them in the British Museum.
Are we really supposed to admire and love modern monarchies, such as the British House of Windsor, even more so today, just because some new princess has been plucked from the middle class?
In fact, the British monarchy, especially, has been reinventing itself by adopting many of the most vulgar features of modern showbiz or sports celebrity.
When 52 people were killed in a suicide bombing on the London Underground the following year, the British, too, reacted with relative calm, having lived through years of Irish terrorist violence in the 1970's.
The British had stopped believing in their own empire.
If the British unions wanted to be ethically consistent, they should apply the same strategies to universities in the numerous countries where human rights are brutally abused and free speech suppressed.
The actions of the British academic unions have Israel as their obvious target.
The addition of the renminbi to the basket, which currently includes the US dollar, the euro, the British pound, and the Japanese yen, would provide China with a boost to its prestige.
Before independence, Nigeria's legal tender was the British pound.
Back then, one Nigerian pound was equivalent to one British pound.
The exchange rate remained unchanged: one naira was equivalent to one British pound.
But the naira's introduction quickly put an end to parity with the British pound.
During the heyday of Irish terrorism in the UK, successive British governments went out of their way not to concede to the IRA the notion that a war was being waged.
This is why British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's proposal to create a fund for climate change is so welcome.
Even as the British were dismantling their empire after World War II, the French and Dutch still believed that parting with their Asian possessions would result in chaos.
According to research conducted by the British Home Office, America now incarcerates over one fifth of the world's total prisoners.
The British Empire was ruled in large part through reliance on local troops.