11.   The IRA appalled the British establishment by forcing the cancellation of the Grand National horse race, the British equivalent of the Kentucky Derby, in April.

12.   The play, which started in England, will be a candidate for five Olivier Awards - the British equivalent of the Tonys - including best play.

13.   There is no British equivalent, for instance, of the Pentagon financing that established the Internet.

14.   They are, for example, all anti-union, rejecting a real possibility of social change in exchange for becoming the British equivalent of Reagan Democrats.

15.   Though she never fully outgrew her image as a Sloane Ranger, the upper-class British equivalent of a Valley Girl, she overcame it.

16.   Over the weekend Barings was placed under the British equivalent of bankruptcy protection, marking one of the most spectacular financial downfalls in British investment banking.

17.   Over the weekend, Barings was placed under the British equivalent of bankruptcy protection, marking one of the most spectacular financial downfalls in British investment banking.