| It sounds like a bad, if familiar, case of practical Brits versus visionary continentals. |
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| When the continentals faced up to a UK side yesterday, the outcome was a 6-1 win for the 22 foreigners who shared a half each. |
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| The decision was just one of several which has led to accusations by the continentals of British bias on the European Tour. |
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| A lot of the continentals at this club already have the necessary technique. |
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| We will have to get used to paying the kind of prices that the continentals have long paid for their central heating. |
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| And they dismantled an old English prejudice that continentals could not shoot. |
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| The continentals, especially in Italy, France and Spain, enjoy their food and take it seriously. |
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| If the continentals couldn't maintain an independent judicial system, then that's their fault. |
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| While continentals swoon with ecstasy over white asparagus, it is the green spears we crave. |
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| But if you want to really see the difference between British footballers and the continentals, just take a look at the Premier League. |
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| They will always have a place in the hearts of the old continentals. |
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| There he was at Murray Park on Friday patiently informing us of the distinctions the continentals make over European trophies and the terminology utilised. |
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| Doubtless the star-struck continentals displayed impressive knowledge of the Irish economic performance in recent encounters with their idol, according to Mr Ahern. |
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| Popular with rich English sailors and new-ageish, well-heeled continentals, this tiny out-of-the-way fishing village attracts property prices almost as high as the capital. |
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| An estimated 8000 Normans and other continentals settled in England as a result of the conquest, although exact figures cannot be established. |
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| Young Continentals see drinking as an accessory to an evening out, not its main purpose. |
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| Washington's Continentals always had to be reinforced by summertime recruits or militiamen before they could take the field. |
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| It was the ubiquity of the militia that made British victories over the Continentals in the field so meaningless. |
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| Well for one thing, the American Continentals were wearing uniforms that usually would only be worn by officers, or rich men. |
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| He later drove two Lincoln Continentals into his lake with little in the way of explanation. |
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| The French and other Continentals would always make a mess of things. |
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| We preferred to decline in splendid isolation rather than prosper in a mundane community of Continentals under the Treaty of Rome which set up the European Economic Community. |
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| In 1778, the Continentals constructed the Great West Point Chain in order to prevent another British fleet from sailing up the Hudson. |
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| They've tried the Continentals, but they can get too typey with less milk and meat, and producers want to start the breeding cycle all over again. |
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| At Abbotsbury, Fox Strangways endeavoured 'to prove our climate not to be so Siberian as the French and other Continentals calumniously assume it to be. |
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