* 1965 – The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.

Construction of this machine was never completed ; Babbage had conflicts with his chief engineer, Joseph Clement, and ultimately the British government withdrew its funding for the project.

However, confusion often stems from the fact that plural verb forms are often used in British English with the singular forms of these count nouns ( for example: " The team have finished the project .").

A good example of such a metonymic shift in the singular-to-plural direction ( which, generally speaking, only occurs in British English ) is the following sentence: " The team have finished the project.

In 1823, the British government gave Babbage ₤ 1700 to start work on the project.

* Geograph British Isles project

Later the project was supported by J. Lyons & Co. Ltd., a British firm, who were rewarded with the first commercially applied computer, LEO I, based on the EDSAC design.

Many other British engineers and craftsmen were imported to assist with the project, along with significant quantities of equipment-even apparently mundane items such as pickaxes, spades and wheelbarrows.

The project dissolved in disputes with the artisan who built parts and ended with the decision of the British Government to cease funding.

The " wonderful year " referenced in the first verse is 1759-1760, during which British forces were victorious in several significant battles: the Battle of Minden on 1st of August 1759, the Battle of Lagos on 19 August 1759, the Battle of the Plains of Abraham ( outside Quebec City ) on 13 September 1759 and the Battle of Quiberon Bay on 20 November 1759, foiling a French invasion project.

* Listen to Dr Bob Parkinson discuss the HOTOL in an oral history interview recorded for the National Life Stories project Oral History of British Science at the British Library

During World War I, Zionist volunteers fought in the Jewish Legion of the British Army against the Ottomans because they expected the British would be less opposed to the Zionist project than the Ottoman authorities.

The FBI participated in the Venona Project, a pre – World War II joint project with the British to eavesdrop on Soviet spies in the UK and the United States.

In pursuit of his Iraq project, Ribbentrop strongly pushed for German aid to the Rashid Ali al-Gaylani government in Iraq, where he saw a great opportunity for striking a blow at British influence in the Middle East.

Thanks to British counter-intelligence efforts, of which Philby's Iberian subsection formed a significant part, the project ( code-named Bodden ) never came to fruition.

Contained in the traffic ( intercepted and decrypted as part of the Venona project ) was information that documents had been sent to Moscow from the British Embassy in Washington.

He was approached by Rudolf Peierls of the University of Birmingham to work on the " Tube Alloys " program – the British atomic bomb research project.

An example is the British Blue Peacock project, while another was the U. S. Medium Atomic Demolition Munition.

* 1970 – Rob Leslie-Carter, British engineer and project manager

The British government had opposed the project of the canal from the outset to its completion.

In 1916, under the British Board of Invention and Research, Canadian physicist Robert William Boyle took on the active sound detection project with A B Wood, producing a prototype for testing in mid 1917.

A different British VTOL project was the gyrodyne, where a rotor is powered during take-off and landing but which then freewheels during flight, with separate propulsion engines providing forward thrust.

** The British Government announced the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.

That's why the British never got the tribes to fight for the King.

She is just home from a sojourn in London where she has become the sweetheart of a young fellow named Ronnie ( we never do see him ) and has been subjected to a first course in thinking and appreciating, including a dose of good British socialism.

Accordingly, as the law stood before 1870, every person who by birth or naturalisation satisfied the conditions set forth, though he should be removed in infancy to another country where his family resided, owed an allegiance to the British crown which he could never resign or lose, except by act of parliament or by the recognition of the independence or the cession of the portion of British territory in which he resided.

Some Protestant charismatic and British New Church Movement churches include " apostles " among the offices that should be evident into modern times in a true church, though they never trace an historical line of succession.

The British tainted small feed cakes with anthrax in the Second World War as a potential means of attacking German cattle for food denial, but never employed the weapon.

The party is keen to maintain its independent identity however, and argues that the need for a modern Liberal force in British politics has never been greater.

Legend has it that there was a member of the British Royal Family onboard and that in gratitude for their bravery, King George III decreed that Caymanians should never be conscripted for war service and Parliament legislated that they should never be taxed.

The British government had intended that the Crown take over the operation of the mines when Cape Breton was made a colony, but this was never done, probably because of the rehabilitation cost of the mines.

In 2000, the British publisher Gollancz Science Fiction issued a two-volume, complete edition of Howard's Conan stories as part of its Fantasy Masterworks imprint, which including several stories that had never seen print in their original form.

After the French surrender, Louisbourg was thoroughly destroyed by British engineers to ensure it would never be reclaimed.

In the interim, the British parliament periodically passed enabling acts with respect to amendments to Canada's constitution ; this was never anything but a rubber stamp.

Five months after the release of Tommy, The Kinks released another concept album, Arthur ( Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire ) ( September 1969 ), written by Ray Davies ; though considered by some a rock opera, it was originally conceived as the score for a proposed but never realised BBC television drama.

He declined the royal honour of Commander of the British Empire in 2000, and turned down a knighthood in 2003, stating: " I would never have any intention of accepting anything like that.

Yugoslavia, Greece and Ethiopia requested extradition of 1, 200 Italian war criminals who however never saw anything like Nuremberg trial, because the British government with the beginning of cold war saw in Pietro Badoglio a guarantee of an anti-communist post-war Italy.

Rommel complained bitterly about the failure of important Italian convoys to get through to him desperately needed tanks and supplies-always blaming the Italian Supreme Command, never suspecting British codebreaking.

Although Washington never gained the commission in the British army he yearned for, in these years the young man gained valuable military, political, and leadership skills.

Although he lost many of his battles, he never surrendered his army during the war, and he continued to fight the British relentlessly until the war's end.

However, the British Parliament never endorsed such promise.

Fedon's forces were defeated by the British in late 1796, but Fedon himself was never caught and his fate is unknown.

In response to Cypriot fears that the Jews would never leave ( since they lacked a state or documentation ) the British later allowed the refugees to enter Palestine at a rate of 750 per month.

Despite more than a century of exposure to Western classical music and two centuries of British colonialism, classical music in India has never gained more than ' fringe ' popularity.

Ribbentrop ( and Hitler for that matter ) never understood that British foreign policy aimed at the appeasement of Germany, not an alliance.