Sentence examples for british type from inspiring English sources

Rachel is also conventionally, aspirationally suburban, a peculiarly British type of character perhaps.

"It's not without complexity," Mr. Oliver said, "and it's an interesting, broad sort of bitterness, a British type of bitterness, which fits the sort of hops they used".

In the public mind he became the best-known postwar example of a characteristic British type - the personally appealing blithering idiot who somehow survives, and sometimes even gets the girl.

The British Type 45 destroyer HMS Daring has arrived at the island of Cebu in the Philippines, where it will be at the forefront of the UK's efforts to bring aid to the millions impacted by Typhoon Haiyan.

The UNP was dominated by the English-educated leaders of the colonial era, who were familiar with the British type of parliamentary democracy that had been established on the island, and it included people from all the ethnolinguistic groups of Ceylon.

A British Type 291 and an American SG radar were used for air search.

Robson does seem to have more support here, whether from locals or transplanted British types.

It also gives him the air of that most historically admired of British types, the gentleman amateur.

In the 1990s unlicensed operators helped drive the rise of British types of dance music such as jungle and garage.

The term lager is still used to denote beer produced from bottom-fermenting yeast, and the term ale is now used for top-fermented British types of beer.

He had drawn up a list of visually notable, if not perfectly representative, British types — "If you asked for eighty average people, they'd all be in fleeces, obviously," he said — and a television-documentary team had helped him find them.