(a.) Of or pertaining to Great Britain or to its inhabitants; -- sometimes restricted to the original inhabitants.
(n. pl.) People of Great Britain.
Example Sentences:
(1) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
(2) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(3) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(4) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
(5) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
(6) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
(7) A new propaganda video by Islamic State featuring the British photojournalist John Cantlie, in which he says it is the “last film in this series”, has appeared online.
(8) They also note surveys that show British voters becoming more Eurosceptic, not less.
(9) Hemoglobin British Columbia was found in an East Indian living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
(10) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(11) The denial of justice to victims of British torture, some of which Britain admits, is set to continue.
(12) Britain had been negotiating with the Saudis over the purchase from British Aerospace of dozens of Hawk and Tornado fighter aircraft.
(13) Such a decision put hundreds of British jobs at risk and would once again deprive Londoners of the much-loved hop-on, hop-off service.
(14) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
(15) An unexpected result of the Greek crisis has been a flight of capital into British government bonds, which has seen gilt prices fall.
(16) How big tobacco lost its final fight for hearts, lungs and minds Read more Shares in Imperial closed down 1% and British American Tobacco lost 0.75%, both underperforming the FTSE100’s 0.3% decline.
(17) David Blunkett, not Straw, was the home secretary at the time the decision was taken to allow Poles and others immediate access to the British labour market.
(18) Discussion deals with the plurality, specificity, variability, perceived necessity, sufficiency, international utility and career significance of British postgraduate qualifications.
(19) But leading British doctors Sarah Creighton , consultant gynaecologist at the private Portland Hospital, Susan Bewley , consultant obstetrician at St Thomas's and Lih-Mei Liao , clinical psychologist in women's health at University College Hospital then wrote to the journal countering that his clitoral restoration claims were "anatomically impossible".
(20) The distributions of triceps and subscapular skinfolds in these 1-year-old infants were considerably lower than in a 1967-68 survey of British 1-year-olds.
Changeling
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies.
(n.) A simpleton; an idiot.
(n.) One apt to change; a waverer.
(a.) Taken or left in place of another; changed.
(a.) Given to change; inconstant.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Duchess of Cambridge, due to give birth in the next couple of weeks, will not suffer the indignities of, say, Mary of Modena in 1688, forced to give birth in front of an audience of 200 and still accused of a bit of business with bedpan and changeling.
(2) Between June 1960 and November 1962, Herbert designed Shakespeare's Richard III for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the film of Tom Jones, and at the Royal Court, Wesker's Chicken Soup With Barley, I'm Talking About Jerusalem and Chips With Everything, Christopher Logue's Trials By Logue, Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's The Changeling, John Osborne's Luther, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Beckett's Happy Days.
(3) Changeling is set in Los Angeles during the Depression, before the city's make-up was changed by the large black influx.
(4) The trolls raise Eggs, a human changeling, in The Boxtrolls Photograph: PR The only other new film to hit the top 10 this week was the apocalyptic thriller Left Behind from director Vic Armstrong.
(5) There are actually echoes of Dirty Harry in Changeling, Eastwood says, and he's not making any concessions to liberals: "I get a kick out of it because the judge convicts the killer to two years in solitary confinement, and then to be hanged.
(6) It surely accounts for the emotional content of some of his recent films, not least Changeling, which had been in competition for the Palme d'Or and, like the lauded Mystic River, concerns child abduction.
(7) So, rather than start an intergalactic incident by listing the best ever episodes (a task that would cause a brain lockdown similar to what happened when Kirk ordered the Enterprise's computer to calculate pi to the last digit ), here are just some favoured examples of a smarter version of Star Trek, one regularly offered by the many TV shows … The Changeling (Star Trek) Season 2, episode 3.
(8) It's a fast-paced romance featuring changeling trolls called Trylle who are switched at birth with human babies.