How To Use British Isles In A Sentence
- 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?
- 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
- There is no difficulty about including Ireland in the British Isles: as you indicate N&Q, 22 December, the latter is a geographical term whereas the non-Britishness of Ireland is a political issue. Notes and queries: What two quite contrary Marys had in common; British Isles – the view from the Channel; Why do baddies always have two henchmen?
- Golf originated in low-maintenance natural settings in the British Isles called "links" courses. Michael J. Critelli: Why Golf Matters
- With the departure of the Romans, the British Isles were invaded by a succession of warlike peoples from the European mainland, including the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes; there were also persistent Danish raids.
- He came back to Carbon County and the North Platte again and again, first to hunt and fish and, finally, when the bison were gone and most of the biggest heads hung on the walls of estates in the British Isles, to vaguely oversee the cattle ranch that became his in 1883. Bird Cloud
- In early 20th century Great Britain, anti-imperialist commentators and politicians were often thought to be affected by the parochial disease of "Little Englandism" -- foreign policy solely focused on the well-being of the British Isles at the expense of the empire -- essentially an euphemism for isolationism. Franz-Stefan Gady: H.G. Wells and Defending the "Restoration Doctrine"
- She can't stand the heat and would prefer to be somewhere nearer the cool British Isles.
- British conchology, or An account of the mollusca which now inhabit the British Isles and the surrounding seas. Not so modern conchology, but fully digitized nevertheless
- All of the stone circles, menhirs, dolmens, etc., of the British Isles were constructed by peoples who antedated the Celts by one to three thousand years.
