Sentence examples for british beginning from inspiring English sources

This is the starting point for hundreds of miles of irrigation canals built by the British, beginning in the eighteen-forties, after a major famine.

The French and the British, beginning in Paris, sought to replace Arab political structures with their own European designs, creating nations in their own Western image.

From the creation of Northern Ireland in 1921 until direct rule by the British beginning in 1972, the UUP formed every provincial government, holding substantial majorities in Stormont, the parliament of Northern Ireland, and in seats for Northern Ireland in the British Parliament.

Only then, he said, did the British begin shooting.

The result was predictable.The British began by pummelling the rebel forces on Long Island and Manhattan.

When the Netherlands came under French control, the British began to move into Sri Lanka from India.

In 1941, when Japanese troops landed in Tenasserim, the British began evacuating Burma.

"Bombs, by God," he shouted when the British began striking Egyptian air fields.

And from the 15th century on, Europeans (Portuguese, Dutch, British) began to arrive by sea.

A decade later the British began to understand what Schinkel had meant.

A sudden sense of kinship with the British began to take hold.