Yet in Britain, only doctors, not paramedics, are trained to intubate a group of patients who often need it most - people with head injuries who aren't completely unconscious.
Yet youngsters in Britain struggle harder than their peers in most rich countries to secure what jobs are available.
Yet politics in Britain has long been thought relatively clean.
America's directly elected Senate, more powerful than the House of Representatives, probably holds few lessons for Britain because the United States has a directly elected president and thus full separation of powers, which no one is yet advocating in Britain.
Yet in America and Britain, among other countries, house prices are already close to record levels in relation to average incomes.
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Pharmaceutical companies, already humbled by the fines for the vitamin cartel, became the target of yet another investigation in Britain, earlier this month, into the alleged price-fixing of generic drugs.
Did anyone in Britain really need Stephen Byers, the trade and industry secretary, to remind them, as he has just done at yet another relaunch of the Britain in Europe campaign, that millions of jobs depend on Britain's access to the mainland?
Has yet to ride a winner at Catterick in Britain and Bellewstown and Wexford in Ireland.
Yet in its treatment of terrorist suspects, Britain, like America, has undermined the values it purports to uphold.
Yet most new public-sector employees in Britain and America continue to benefit from pensions linked to their salaries.
Yet in an age of instant communication, Britain remains faithful to a more conventional and leisurely mode of contact: the postcard.
Yet the opposite has happened in America, Britain and other rich countries where inequality has risen over the past 30 years.
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No Afghan government has yet accepted the border drawn by Britain in 1893 that runs through the middle of the Pashtun tribal belt.
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Castle Trust, a yet-to-be-authorised lender in Britain backed by JC Flowers, a private-equity firm, plans to offer savers investment products tied to a national house-price index.
Yet it is doubtful that such methods could work in Britain.
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Yet Britain's deregulated energy market, in which consumers are free to shop around among a variety of energy providers, is held up by many as a model.
Yet the fact that Britain has recently been involved in two troop-heavy counter-insurgency campaigns does not mean that all or even most future conflicts will be similar.
And yet according to the Charities Aid Foundation, we in Britain donate less than half as much to charity as our American counterparts, as a proportion of GDP.
The real political debate about Britain's future in Europe has yet to begin.
But advocates of mayors and more local-government powers have yet to make that case in the teeth of recent evidence that Britain's cities are capable of thriving even with feeble local democracy.
Yet there are signs that things might be looking up for repertory in Britain.
In addition, the mechanics of Britain's admission are yet to be decided.
Urban authorities in Britain have their hands full these days chasing explosives, yet some of them seem to have an obsession with a less dangerous substance: chicle.
The show, which does not yet have a title, is set to debut on the Sky Living channel in Britain.
"This is yet another illustration of why abandoning our deficit reduction plan would put Britain back in the international firing line, " a spokesman said.
Yet the relationship with America is central to Britain's defence policy and position in the world.
Yet now, 20 years later, you're banned from Britain, prosecuted in your country.
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Yet the Victorians built railways and city halls for their descendants in what was one of Britain's most optimistic eras.
Yet the same markets are more than willing to lend money to governments in America, Britain and Germany at negative real (ie, after inflation) rates.
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