Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adj] television " in BNC.

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1 who is dead , he condemned another of his followers who was lying badly injured in hospital , like this unfortunate man here who was blinded , and I can understand why Clare feels badly about this tabloid television , it 's not a time for exciting , you know I everybody er is appalled by any bereavement or misery .
2 He made almost a clean break with the game , except for some local television work .
3 Père Raymond Pichard , the ‘ father ’ of French religious television died in February .
4 Alternatively , rival parties could be given control of different public television stations : so BBC 1 and Channel 4 might become ‘ conservative-right wing ’ channels while BBC 2 and ITV become ‘ socialist-left wing ’ channels , which could then compete for an audience .
5 Two senior editors of Novi Sad television news were suspended on April 8 , 1990 , for giving greater prominence in a news bulletin to coverage of an election rally in Croatia by the right-wing nationalist Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ — the eventual winners in the election — see p. 37381 ) than to a rally in Belgrade attended by Milosevic commemorating the 175th anniversary of the second Serbian uprising against the Turks .
6 But , said Mr Pannick , there was no retransmission of Red Hot Television programmes .
7 The story told by Sion Pyrs , director of TAC , the association of Welsh independent television producers , was of the Vikings .
8 The congress elected as the union 's new chair Eduard Sagalayev , a former head of Soviet Central Television 's main current affairs unit , who was described by The Times of Feb. 8 as a " leading advocate of free speech and Western-style news reporting " .
9 Once again , a chairman sympathetic to the Thatcher regime was chosen , in this case ‘ Duke ’ Hussey , while a policy of supplying franchises to a variety of new commercial television and radio companies , exploiting the potential of satellite transmission , again threatened the BBC 's position .
10 A FLOOD of new weekly television listings magazines will hit the market when what the Home Secretary calls the ‘ dotty ’ restriction on advance use of programme schedules is lifted in the next parliamentary session .
11 In implementation of the law Menem on Sept. 13 signed a decree for the privatization by June 28 , 1990 , of Entel , the state telecommunications company , and on Dec. 22 signed a decree for the sale of two state-owned television channels to groups of investors as of Dec. 27 .
12 PERHAPS the most striking aspect of the John Birt affair has been the enthusiasm with which the great and the good of 1980s British television have lined up to kick him when he is down .
13 Le Monde of Oct. 5 , 1989 , reported that Parliament had approved a law allowing the establishment of local private television stations and thereby bringing to an end the state broadcasting monopoly .
14 Day after day , like some fatuous television game-show host , Inayat Khan lists the presents given and received :
15 Scottish , like other independent television companies recently , announced lower full-year profits yesterday , pulled down by reorganisation and licence application costs .
16 It has been estimated that around 70 consortia in all are arranging finance to participate in the auction for major independent television franchises , with the most attractive regions such as Thames , LWT , Granada , Central , TVS and Anglia likely to draw the toughest competition .
17 None of their ideas were really in tune with what Corman had suggested — as Jack described it , ‘ plenty of tomahawk numbers and a lot of ketchup ’ , which was the popular requirement of westerns then , especially with such popular television series such as ‘ Bonanza ’ , ‘ Rawhide ’ and ‘ Bronco ’ .
18 An example is the remote control system used with many modern television sets , videocassette recorders , audio systems , etc .
19 Mark Garner , executive consultant with Red Hot Television 's parent company , Continental Television , said : ‘ We are delighted this will have to go to court and we will be there at the earliest opportunity . ’
20 Follow Me , for example , was produced in association with several German television companies for a group of evening institutes in Germany .
21 I have sat around tables with senior male television executives and listened to them on the one hand bemoan the lack of good women presenters and on the other make suggestions of possible women candidates so inappropriate as to be laughable .
22 As I lie here under the green , seaweedy tent I remember from some trite television interview , a remark made by Brigitte Bardot , loopy Parisienne , namely that in all her many love affairs she was off at the first sign of the waning of passion .
23 Other regulations deal with such things as questions of public taste and decency , the proportion of foreign programmes permitted on air and the extent of permissible foreign ownership in British commercial television ( and radio ) companies .
24 The Forum is sponsored by the City of Birmingham 's Economic Development Committee with additional support from Central Independent Television and Telescope Video Graphics .
25 He was also a major shareholder in three commercial television companies , and was at the time of his death interesting himself in the production of programmes for network on the new commercial radio station .
26 The ‘ theological bias ’ , the humanism , the anti-establishment propaganda , the ‘ declining ’ moral standards , and the increasing use of ‘ foul ’ language , for which Mrs Whitehouse continually criticised the BBC , were almost all to be found aplenty , she felt , in one particular television programme , and the battle over this series is in many ways illustrative of the wider battle between the NVALA and the Corporation at this time .
27 Sponsored by the Russian Federation government and staffed largely by defectors from Soviet central television , it had been given air time totalling just over six hours a day on Soviet television 's second channel [ for February 1991 curbs on Radio Russia see p. 38015 ] .
28 And our last one three years ago on some stupid television thing about the music-hall .
29 AN ULSTER-made guitar is being used in an advertisement promoting a slimming food on networked American television !
30 The government on Aug. 25 , 1989 , awarded contracts to three private television channels — Canal Plus ( 25 per cent French-owned ) , Telecinco ( 25 per cent owned by the Italian magnate Silvio Berlusconi ) and the Spanish-owned Antena 3 — breaking the 33-year monopoly of the state company TVE and finally fulfilling the constitutional requirement for pluralism in the media with respect to television .
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